Allentown put out these bike tires as some sort of art thing in May. Since then they've been floating around as a living trash sculpture. One time someone hung it in a tree and it looked like a spider.
Someone also filled in the trash garden with some plants. Hopefully it'll stay nice.
After getting out of work early tonight I forced @paul out of bed for a walk.
Ant errywhere. They were swarming this dead slug, it was really gross.
This parking lot next to Globe is on it's way out, woop. Beyonce even visited to tag her name on the barriers.
Bike or Bar had a redonk light show going on
Mode finally has a new place opening up in it. After 5 years. The sign says Saigon Cafe - is it related to Saigon Bangkok?
After the Italian fest we continued our bike ride through Parkside and the Park before heading home. The Starin Parkside neighborhood is so ridiculous and I always forget about it. Not only are the houses huge but the roads and lawns too.
One of my favorites that is not so big but so cool is the old belt line train station at Starin and Amherst. It's sunk below the street next to the tracks and has this old cobblestone driveway down to it. You can rent it on airbnb for $300 a night.
We had a pretty shitty experience at the park (ask @paul) but Hoyt lake was especially bad that day. I assume it was the rain.
@paul, @terry and I went on a bike ride after getting our hair did. Terry wanted a cannoli so we stopped at the Italian festival for a bit. For once the stands were a little less fair and a little more Italian food.
The cannoli were so amazing. We also got an eggplant roll up and free cheese samples. Yum.
Making it rain on them ho's.
The crowd was not very Italian but is North Buffalo even Italian anymore?
Jewel of India served lasagna and pasta. I wonder if they were forced to have an Italian menu.
The city of Buffalo would like you to recycle the crap they are handing out.
On Friday before Brushwood, @paul, @terry and I went with Vanessa to go get lunch at Valle de Mexico on South Park.
There were so many choices but I didn't really know what most of them were. I wanted to get the soggy chips in sauce that Terry talked about, but the menu was limited since it was the greased pole festival. Instead I got the veggie burrito. The food was slow to come out but it was because they made it fresh.
The burrito was not that good although the poblano peppers in it were. I think Paul just ate his kryptonite because he was dying after.
The best part was the horchata. The waitress described it as rice pudding in a drink and that's what it tasted like.
Its 3:30am and I am not tired. Everyone is asleep. i just got back from Jims with @YesThatCasey. I got the veggie taco and and mac and cheese bited for $5 and the cashier said they both were vegetarian. They both also smelled like fried dough.
Now I'm sitting in the park at Franklin and North. It's really nice but almist never used. I woke up a drunk guy so his phone doesn't get stolen.
Maybe I should Deutsch üben. Or program. I have a bug at work that needs to be fixed but Terry might kill me if I work more hours like Paul. I wish @terry would post.
If someone were awake right I'd go for a walk. woof woof. I bet midnight would.
So 23 North is gone for good. The claim according to this Buffalo News article is that a lightning strike did it in. They also day it was *just* about to be redeveloped.
But if if the disqus comments by benfranklin are to be believed:
StrikeNet provides lightning strike data for the insurance industry. The last bolt of lightning in that area, was July 7 at 11:29 PM, with a latitude of 42.90457, longitude -78.87158, which is about 2 tenths of a mile a way. The strike was -19.3 kA, making it a less than average strike.
Stand at the corner of North and Main, and you can see the buildings being demoed near the church, and also this property on North. The property is within a few hundred feet of the Medical Campus. I'm all for them doing what they want with their property, this just seems a bit too convenient, and flies in the face of the facts (facts they probably didn't realize are readily available)
(yeah dubious whatevs), there was no lightning strike at the property. According to the comments StrikeNet, an application used by insurance agents to determine lightning strikes, says the nearest strike was on Summer Street 4 hours earlier. Its easier to avoid the preservation board when the building is half collapsed.
So fuck you First Amherst and fuck your demolition by neglect. I hope lightning burns down your offices.
