shuffle to bflo

every time i turn around it seems i'm in the company of someone from buffalo

after seeing so many buffalonians in nyc as of late, it occurred to me to check in (virtually) with buffalo. hello buffalo! i miss you all!

stay gold

things fare well down here. 55 degree weather for new years, the year starts well. so much to say but ohwell.

don't bother
emailing me, I've forgotten my password to log in. paul can you do anything about that?

so long, farewell

i also just got an email about the city failing to keep its word with the asbury church (a.k.a ani's church) i guess i can't help but post it..


Many of you may have read a story in today’s paper about the City of Buffalo essentially being about to pull the plug on the revitalization of the Asbury Church as a performing arts center by Righteous Babe Records and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Here’s a link to it:



The story is misleading in some respects. Costs for the project have grown (as they do with ANY renovation project), but Righteous Babe and Hallwalls are fully prepared to meet any increases through their own fundraising. They are only asking the City to honor an agreement made two years ago to provide 2.7 million in funding—1.7 of which will come from HSBC Bank, who is ready and willing to step forward. Righteous Babe also plans to pay the City back for its contribution, although this IS a City-owned building. Righteous Babe, a local business,  has already spent 2.5 million on a building they do not own and Hallwalls (an internationally-respected thirty-year-old arts organization) has so far raised 400k (88% private) towards the project. Many national and local funders are excited about this project—it is in fact an enormous gift to downtown.  This is a nationally recognized performing arts center which will regularly bring patrons to downtown restaurants, hotels, and other businesses as well as further enriching the existing residential district—to which new apartments are being added yearly. Not to mention the preservation of a historic landmark. God knows what will happen to it if it reverts to City management.

Even the most anti-government-funding libertarian would have to recognize the huge benefit being returned for a small investment. Almost all the dollars going to this project are private.

This is what needs to happen. The Common Council must RE-APPROVE the agreement between the City and Righteous Babe on Tuesday, 1/11.

This is how you can help: Call, fax, or email your Council Member, regardless of where you live in the City. Urge them to let the project go forward. Attend the meeting if you can. Louis Grachos, director of the Albright-Knox, and others, plan to be there to speak in favor.

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hey yall

it's been a good three months, feels more like three years. i can't even begin to tell you about this place, its like being in another world, esp compared to bflo and the estrip. but yesterday i had a crazy long dream about buffalo and lots of bflo folks, just about everyone i know in buffalo was in it, i swear. so here i am checking in..

long live color options

things are lookin good on the estrip. at least the virtual one, i dno what kind of weather youre all dealin with.

you know i like my girls a little bit older

stickboy, if youre around.. remember dancing to that slow version of .your love. once upon a time? i just saw that band play a real fast version .josies on vacation far away. and i thought of you. hope alls good..


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i bought a supercute bike in south buffalo from this guy who is closing his bike shop and retiring. anyways, its called tony's bikes and the address is 3600 south park ave.

anyways he was selling cruiser bikes for $80 but is marking them down to $50 or $40, plus theres tons of parts you can get supercheap. no more bike pumps, etc. bc they've sold and he's not ordering any more, but you can find tons of great shit, including some really really cool old cruisers, cooler than the ones ppl have been riding around.

tony himself was fun to talk to, he's been there for 21 or so years, but has been in the business for years. he was talking about bert's bikes (you know the huge mega-chain) and how they charge so much for so little. this guy was into it for the bikes, you could tell from his shop and the way he talked. anyways, check it out if you get a chance (go before the great ones disappear!), you can certainly negotiate a good price with him.

i have a hard time writing anything of real substance on an online journal like this. i think it has to do with the fact that i like knowing who im talking to. but also bc im a private person in general. sorry if you were hoping to find anything out folks..

now i want to see what happens when i click to hide this entry. who sees it, i wonder?

today i am sore, after riding bikes all the way to orchard park/ chestnut ridge yesterday. we went to waterfall and the eternal flame, which i'd heard about for years but had never been. it was already lit and was nice to look at, the shale seemed slate-like to me. if youre not familiar with it, the area has layers and layers of shale, which has small cracks in it which allows some of the natural gas inside the earth to escape, and if you hold a flame to some of the escaping gas, it'll stay lit.

we also passed by balistreri's bakery, which according to my friend marc, has great bread but a year or two ago has relocated from the city to orchard park. we didn't get to stop by, but next time you pass it remember that..

oh, and thanks for all the cheektowaga advice, folks. i havent been there yet, but there's still 23 more days of august.