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04/19/11 09:35 - ID#54094

Fuck You Buffalo Rising!

This morning I read a "restaurant review" in Buffalo Rising about Left Bank.

It was a typical fluff piece that they write for all of their advertisers. I felt the need to comment because it was so poorly written and just screamed of being edited to death. Right after I found the original much more honest review on the author's blog here:

and posted it to Buffalo Rising's comments. Both of my comments were promptly erased and my login is now denied!

Buffalo Rising is such shit really. They are worried only about advertising dollars. When I worked at a restaurant and served BR's reviewer I was told to comp the whole bill. Not only did we know we were being reviewed we gave them the fucking meal for free! They aren't reviewing anything. They are advertising.

Not that it's really much different at the Buffalo News, although at least they don't get the meal comped. But every chef in Buffalo knows what Janice Okun looks like. Not much of a surprise that everyone gets high marks. Although I don't necessarily agree with these two all the time

at least they follow ethical standards. Neither of which BR or the News adhere to.

npage148 writes at 10:53:42 12/08/11 - Comment #66612: Found your post. I read BRO as a time killer just to see what's going on I might have missed. I was also just deleted and banned from BRO for questioning their piece about Templeton Landing. Despite years (decades?) of horrible reviews, his glowing review looks beyond questionable. They never post a negative or even neutral reviews of the place and they should just be honest about their sponsored posts. It does nothing for their credibility or Buffalo as a whole when people go to one of their promoted restaurants and it sucks.

tinypliny writes at 05:10:00 04/19/11 - Comment #61902: Ironically, just looking at their grease-ridden pics of Left Bank fare in that article makes me not want to eat there. Pictures speak volumes and often cannot lie very well.

tinypliny writes at 05:07:46 04/19/11 - Comment #61901: To be fair, I do occasionally stumble upon things in downtown Buffalo because of Buffalo Rising. They may not be the most objective of sources, but at least they do a good job of promoting new ventures and new stuff around downtown - commercial or not. If I am wondering about some new place that opened up or some new service that is being offered in the city (within walking distance of my place), chances are that a google search turns up a top hit in their reviews. Something is always better than nothing.

It's a pity that they are not very objective and do not respond well to constructive criticism.

scott writes at 10:36:42 04/19/11 - Comment #61895: Wow. People actually read Buffalo Rising?

jason writes at 10:02:04 04/19/11 - Comment #61893: Oh yeah, and about Buffalo Chow - they should stick to what they "know"......reviewing food......it annoys the hell out of me when non-technical people give other non-technical people bad advice about technical issues.

jason writes at 09:38:42 04/19/11 - Comment #61890: Yeah, that blows. Notice how she went and edited her own blog explaining her shilling....ERRR....."cognitive dissonance". I like Josh's reviews far better. The Mighty Taco one was legendary.

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Category: food

04/18/11 10:32 - ID#54083

Spar's Chocolate Bacon

A couple of weeks ago I was Spar's Sausage on Amherst St. and noticed a large jar of chocolate covered bacon on the counter. I had to try it considering my love of both.

As much as I love everything about Spar's, really everything they make is absolutely great. The bacon was one of the most foul things I have ever eaten. I have had bacon as a dessert before ie. (candied bacon, caramel corn with bits of rendered bacon) and loved it. But this stuff was totally inedible. The second piece ended up in the trash.

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Category: cooking

04/18/11 10:25 - ID#54082

Paella

I love watching the cooking shows on PBS Saturdays. I know I should probably be productive but I learn so much by watching these guys. It also usually inspires me as to what I'm going to cook that week.

One of my favorites is "Avec Eric" which is Eric Ripert's cooking show. He usually has a couple of segments one usually is him either with a farmer, cultivator or artisan of some sort and the other he cooks something. Frequently his preparations use expensive ingredients, which most cooking shows do, and last week was no exception. On this particular episode he made Paella. I had never made it prior to last week and never realized how easy it is. It is however pretty freaking expensive given the price of seafood and saffron, but totally worth it for a special occasion.

I more or less followed his recipe but deviated a little bit.

I didn't use authentic bomba rice, not only because I haven't a clue as to where to procure that in Buffalo but because frankly I doubt I would notice a difference from any quality short grain rice that is available to me anyway. If I made it again I would definitely not even bother with the saffron at all. I don't really see what people love about saffron. It has a strange plastic taste to me. Considering the cost I don't really see any reason to use it ever again. I also think it would taste a little better if I had used homemade chicken stock, but I can't be bothered to boil chicken bones constantly.

I would like to make it for a large group and think it would be so much cooler if it were cooked over and open flame. Totally a dinner for company you want to impress with your cooking skills. Anyway here is the final result:

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03/19/11 10:21 - ID#53875

Cost of War

According to the Navy, each Tomahawk missile costs $569,000.

So we just shot 110 of these at Libya because our our president heard that their president had a bigger dick than his. I'll bet I could find a much better use for $62 million.

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Category: paul's idea

03/15/11 07:43 - ID#53835

What would I buy if someone gave me $150

I would get a babysitter and buy two tickets to this

tix = $50.00
babysitter = $50.00

I guess with the remaining $50.00 I would buy a bottle of Champagne and celebrate that someone gave me $150.00

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03/15/11 08:27 - ID#53830

A reason I love Buffalo

The biggest reason I love Buffalo is the most major things in my life have happened here.

-I was born here
-I met my wife here
-I was married here
-I earned my bachelors degree here
-My child was conceived and born here

It's kinda crazy that all of these things happened to me and I have lived here less than 5 years. Not consecutively obviously. Buffalo will always hold a special place in my heart.

Honorable mention:
-Sponge Candy
-Bistro Europa
-Blue Monk
-Walking distance to Canada
-Really cool buildings and mansions
-Bidwell Market
-Good wings everywhere
-Crazy Parades
-Free Concerts
-Paula's Donuts
-CEPA Art Gallery
-Traffic Circles

I guess that was reasons instead of reason.

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Category: baby

03/01/11 03:46 - ID#53754

This is tough

So I'm becoming really private online. I have been keeping any sort of real details about my life off of the net. But a few of you here know that my wife (Btw I got married) was pregnant. She had the baby last week and we are doing very well. I don't want to post her name or pictures because I think if the baby wants to have some sort of online presence that will be her decision in the future. But she is wicked cute and I hope you all get to meet her soon.

I really do intend to keep writing here. I'm currently just trying to get inspired again. I guess for while I didn't really care what I posted about. Now I don't want any potential or current bosses or colleagues to stumble upon this journal by accident. I have been cooking up a storm lately, which really means its time to start posting about that again.

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Category: food

03/01/11 01:32 - ID#53753

Even Lazier

A picture comment to (e:Paul,53737)

Just in case it was too hard to slice the pre-cooked potatoes they include that convenience too.

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Category: jenny mccarthy is a

02/21/11 04:46 - ID#53673

Vaccination

NY state is now recommending Hepatitis B vaccines for all newborn babies based on six case studies of medical errors

I'm not one of those crazies (see Jenny McCarthy) that thinks vaccinations lead to autism. I do think that its overkill to give a newborn a Hep B vaccine based on six case studies. I didn't even get this vaccine until I went to work in a hospital with routine exposure to patient blood. I can't see how a newborn would ever likely come into contact with this. Anyway I did find find this great website the Jenny McCarthy Body Count

I find idiots like her and and people like Oprah that give her a pedestal from which to spew forth dangerous crap highly despicable. It is amazing to me how quickly bullshit spreads in the information age. It's no wonder I'm becoming a Luddite. It's scary to think that my baby could get polio because some moron thought that a vaccine was more dangerous than the disease it prevents.

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02/21/11 01:20 - ID#53670

Facefuck

I am really annoyed with how much I use Facebook these days. I can't figure out why I even log in anymore. I can't stand close to 10% of my "Friends". Most of these people were someone I was acquainted with many years ago. For the most part I was never their friend and it is obvious why. Another 10% are people that I went to high school with and was never friends with. In fact everything I know about these people is based entirely on their facebook status. Most of the people I'm close with don't actually communicate anything at all with me there. In fact I also don't communicate any sort of real personal information. But the craziest thing of all is that most of my communication is with people from (e:strip).

Btw (e:paul)'s head keeps showing up on the people I may know screen. What's up with that?

metalpeter writes at 06:38:54 02/22/11 - Comment #60867: You are on there to look at all my Bandits and Bandettes Pictures....

I have a real life Facebook example.......

I go to the New Years Eve Party and Take Pictures .... Now some people I meet briefly and some people I don't know so I post the pictures here and on face book. One of the people not sure if she has a page here or if she does her user name Is Lara.... So I post pictures and then she winds up tagging them and there is a friends request.... She posted about a party at a bar.... I thought about going and should have but I didn't want to take the chance of only knowing her.... But it is connections like that that I think drive facebook really....

Another story is last year after Pride and the Dyke March went to see The Stripteasers and took pictures and have one person who was watching them as friends and the ladies who perform... This doesn't mean I know the Stripteasers or anything really there is just that connection.......

tinypliny writes at 05:38:29 02/21/11 - Comment #60836: I just like writing too much. :-)

paul writes at 03:35:53 02/21/11 - Comment #60831: My face is on there because I signed up to get a developer account. Then as (e:enknot) also discovered, it was during a time period of flux in their developer API and the info was up and down, outdated and full of broken links. My very minimal interest faded completely.

I doubt I would ever really use it. All of the people I neglected to keep in contact with are fine just where they are in my life.

I find it totally strange that so many estrip people are friends on there and then never publish here anymore. I guess facebook provides you with a false sense of security that the real internet just doesn't. I am really not sure. Maybe its that coupled with a sprinklling of friends and family.

In general, I guess blogging just lost out to simple status messages that fade off into nothingness. I guess I am old fashioned but I am pretty sure I will keep blogging. I have been a journaler since 3rd grade (e:paul,39689) afterall ;)

flacidness writes at 02:56:02 02/21/11 - Comment #60830: This site is alot more intimate, you kinda feel theneed to reveal more on here than you would on facebook. Facebook is to much like high school.atleast on here you know that there are alot more people on the same page as you.

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