Here's a game Tunesmith and I invented over the phone yesterday that you and a group of your friends can play. Get a group of friends to meet up in the produce section of a grocery store. Have each player select a bunch of bananas and walk around the store asking random shoppers, “How long do you think these bananas will keep?” Each player is to keep track of how many people each asks before he or she finds a shopper that suggests, “You can always make banana bread if they start to spoil.” Each shopper that a player asks, up to and including that one shopper suggesting banana bread, equals one point. Lowest score wins. You know, like golf, except you're playing with bananas. Banana Golf. There, I just named the game, bitches.

Tunesmith is the only Pittsburgh blogger who does not live in Pittsburgh and does not blog. Discuss.

Actually, Tunesmith said that he'd like to get back into blogging. He said that he'd like to dispense advice in response to questions submitted by readers. So if you have a question about life, love, breakfast cereals or affairs of the heart, please submit them using the “Contact” link at the top of the page. Help get Tunesmith back into the game.

This bullshit of the New England Patriots' coach Bill Belichick putting Mike Vrabel in for goal line offensive plays has to stop. It's just stupid.

The trial for Pittsburgh city Councilwoman Twanda Carlisle began, and it looks like ol' Twanda is going down faster than Rosie O'Donnell in a room full of vaginas covered in Heinz Homestyle Gravy .

Balla is the official scrotum talc of Tunesmith & Anthony.

Wake the kids! Call the neighbors! T&A has been named Site of the Day by that turtlenecked duo of spunky goodness over at thepittsburghchannel.com's Links N'@, Ashley DiParlo and Becky “Top Spin” Emmers! This honor was bestowed upon us me for my National Toupee Forgiveness Day post. I must confess that I got a little misty seeing “Top Spin” Emmers holding the flyer that I created. I believe this is T&A's 2^nd mention on Links N'@ but it's the first time we I have been honored with the Site of the Day distinction. The vast T&A readership can watch today's Links N'@ installment by clicking here, Jack.

A heartfelt thank you goes out to Ash and “Top Spin” for this honor. Yinz rock, n'at!

It's hard to believe, but the 3rd annual National Toupee Forgiveness Day is quickly approaching, being celebrated this year on November 26. For those of you unfamiliar, National Toupee Forgiveness Day was started by T&A in 2005 to give longtime toupee wearers the opportunity to get out from under their hairpieces with dignity. You can read the entire background on this special day here, but what follows is all you really need to know.

The Tenets of National Toupee Forgiveness Day:

1. Long suffering toupee wearers who have yearned to cease wearing a toupee but have not for fear of embarrassment shall stop wearing their toupees on National Toupee Forgiveness Day.
2. A habitual toupee wearing person’s failure to wear his toupee on National Toupee Forgiveness Day shall and will be interpreted as his tacit acceptance to participate in and enjoy all benefits of National Toupee Forgiveness Day.
3. The non-toupee wearing general public shall promise not to acknowledge in any manner or form that a former toupee wearing person has suddenly stopped wearing his toupee on National Toupee Forgiveness Day. No references to a participant’s appearance, past or present, shall be made either in the form of compliment or ridicule.
4. All parties involved agree to never mention or acknowledge a participant’s former toupee wearing habits into perpetuity.
5. Going forward, National Toupee Forgiveness Day shall be observed annually on the Monday following Thanksgiving.

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I have a feeling 2007 is going to be the year that this bitch catches on. I'm calling on all members of the print, television and news media to help promote this worthwhile cause this year.

If you, dear member of the vast T&A readership, would like to help your fellow man by spreading the word about National Toupee Forgiveness Day, print the flyer that can be downloaded here (PDF, 228kb) and post it at your workplace lunch room or above the urinals at your favorite watering hole.

Together, we can change this world for the better, one toupee at a time.