04/12/07 10:41 - 36ºF - ID#38872
The Don Imus Nonsense
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Category: weather
04/11/07 08:54 - 31ºF - ID#38850
A Sure Sign of Spring
Kinda wished I had my camera with me. I just drove in via Washington St and as you got closer downtown. You could see a veil of frost on the top of the HSBC arena that faces the lake. It would have made for an interesting pic. Alas.
Beatiful thing about (e:strip) -- getting turned on to something new. Stumbled across (e:joshua) 's myspace page and became a fan of Warren Haynes' acoustic work. Went on a mini itunes shopping spree to collect the awesomeness of it all. Knew the great electric stuff, but my ipod is happy to have a bunch of new tunes.
off to work, great day, peeps
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: rant, sorta
04/10/07 08:47 - 36ºF - ID#38842
"I fathered Anna Nicole's Baby!!"
Last week's reporting of who raised the most money campaigning for president made me wonder if all the national media outlets (aside from the Onion and Utne Reader) have gone around the bend. The thing that ultimately pisses me off a little is that such reporting basically annoints candidates as viable and to a degree influences voter choices. And before I incur (e:Joshua)'s wrath for picking on Fox again, it struck me that MSNBC (home of the newly color blind Don Imus) was worst at this. They were continually harping on how much the money tally means for Obama versus how much it means for Clinton. Should other candidates reorganize? etc. Since the republican tallies weren't quite as high, MSNBC didn't spend a whole lot on those candidates. Mitt Romney raised the most (the hell kind of name is Mitt?) and they ignored him preferring to overanalyze on Guiliani & McCain. If I haven't bored you to tears yet, you might wonder what difference this makes. All it means is that they can all afford to keep campaigning (shocker there) long before we wanted them to. It's funny because of none of this has anything to do with what any of these people would do as president. It's literally reporting because there is nothing else to say, but continued reporting like that could prop up somebody not worth propping up (cough, John Edwards) or deflate somebody unnecessarily (carping on McCain for being weak as a fundraiser hardly seemed important
(e:jenks) mentioned her love of TIVO. I hold mine in similar high regard. Mine offered up Bill Maher's last show on HBO. Maher was asking about the candidates in talking with Chris Rock. Rock's initial answer was he wished "Gore would get in it soon. He's more qualified than all the others out there." Not sure, I agree, but an interesting take nonetheless.
Don't remember a presidential campaign getting this ramped up so soon. When I was in school the first time, I made a good buck working for all the news organizations who couldn't be bothered to come near St. Bonaventure and the surrounding area. They all hired the week before. If we are voting in February, it would be cool if they (the candidates, the news organizations, etc) would cool it till the fall at least. We're not going to find anything out in the interim.
Argh
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: health and stuff
04/08/07 10:14 - 27ºF - ID#38802
What me, biopsy??
So, it's all good.
Wore a nice suit to a memorial service and three women came up to me to chat who ordinarily given me the time of day. (e:imk) and (e:jenks) do know of what they speak. I looked pretty good in it if I say so myself.
Enjoy your sunday everybody, may there be plenty of tasty chocolate rabbit parts just when you need them.
Later
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Category: laugh, dammit
04/06/07 09:48 - 23ºF - ID#38770
Happy Holidays
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: weather
04/06/07 08:07 - 22ºF - ID#38769
Well, it's not just Buffalo....
Shit apparently happens, but in an increasing number of places, freezes on impact.
You'd think we'd all have better luck pairing off to stay warm when crap like this happens.
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Category: ackmpfht!!
04/04/07 08:48 - 35ºF - ID#38748
Blech
Elsewhere, I'm pretty sure one of my bosses has gone round the bend. In a staff meeting in late january, she basically through a rather impressive shit fit about being overly generous approving time off, that the needs of the business come first and we can't be okaying every request. She carefully stopped short of admitting that it was her own fuck up. She basically screamed that it can't happen again. Well, would have been nice if she backed that up. Instead of scheduling with some care, she basically okayed training schedules, sent some other staff to another weeklong seminar and granted some folks time off (NOT yours truly) and basically if you have to wait inline at Time Warner next week, it is her fault. There will be skeleton crews everywhere. I wouldn't care, but the last time I spent a week waiting on trade, I got yelled at for not getting much else done. Damned if you do, damned if you don't I guess.
A few of my fellow Tw worker bees have to go to the Bisons game on Friday and glad hand in the 30 degree weather. Suddenly, my load seemed a little lighter
I was never a big boxing fan growing up, but Showtime is running "When We Were Kings" a lot. I tend to stop and watch a little when I'm channel surfing. Ali was an artist and it is riveting to see him at the height of his powers, plus he pummeled George Foreman. Worth a look when you get a chance.
Can Sanjaya, Anna Nicole (and all her periphals), disappear?
Asked a woman to Lucinda Williams and was turned down? I was shocked.
Bloodied but unbowed, I soldier on....
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Category: music
03/29/07 11:20 - 41ºF - ID#38690
20 years, damn
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
03/28/07 02:08 - 46ºF - ID#38665
Shells and Ricotta
Cheaper, quicker and flat out better than Chefs (bread is a little better too). I've lived here close to forever and never understood the Chefs hullaballoo. DiTondos has a nice little porch that almost makes you forget you are on Seneca St.
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Category: potpourri
03/27/07 09:53 - 41ºF - ID#38649
Midweek observations.....
Sounds like a shot I might take.
Weather was great, yesterday, or so I'm told. The one instance I had to walk outside was right at the start of the quick rainstorm. If that ain't a metaphor for having a monday, I'm not sure what is.
Keep passing the opening windows, peeps.
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Before I get into the music debate I will say that Imus shouldn't have been fired. What he stated was his opinion just like if someone said "Homosexuality is sin and all gays will burn in hell forever and never see their loved ones unless they are in hell also" I personly don't believe that but a lot of people do. Some people believe whites and blacks should intermarry and have kids and with in a few Hundred years everyone will be a brownish color and bye bye to rascism. So people think that intermixing Races is wrong and even nationalities is wrong. It is an opinion and we are free to have differing ones. It doesn't matter whos way of thinking is the majority both sides should be free to say what they believe with out being punished. There is a difference between thoughts an actions and often that is forgot about. Imus didn't take his hate grab a girl with wavy hair and strighten it and then take her to church to un ho her. All he did was express his thoughts.
I admit that I used to listen to rap music a lot. You have the positive stuff and the Gangster stuff . I'm not saying it all falls into the catagory. Then allong with rap there is hip-hop also. The thing about rap is that (or at least in the past) you heard a lot more of the negative stuff then postive stuff on the radio. Yes women are looked down on in the music. But I do kinda agree with Snoop a little bit they aren't singing about mom they are singing about lose girls who really are hos. But now in terms of the videos is where I would disagree (if you ever don't have porn just watch a rap video, yummy, yum, yum those girls look delicous) Because those girls know what they are signing up for. The thing about Rap Music is that most of the time it is a reflection of the culture. It does glamourise it but that doesn't mean that it encourages it. We all know that art reflects life but not sure if it also the other way around, it could be.
I find it interesting that some of what Louis Farakhan (why isn't he the civil right leaders for blacks) says even though it is hateful towards whites is also what whites say about blacks. I haven't heard anything he has said in a long time so my memory may be wrong. But basicly he wants blacks to correct there wrongs of single mothers and he wants his "sisters" to be strong. There are a lot of problems in the ghetto that compound other problems. That doesn't mean that everyone is a drug dealer or murderer but if you listened to rap you would think that.
I agree with what the writer says about Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. These people are race baiters and opportunists who have a vested personal interest in perpetuating a myth - that racial tensions are still at a 1960's level. Their literal bread and butter depends on shaking down corporations for hush money if they feel that their companies aren't as diverse as they would like. Generally I think their practical usefulness to African-Americans has passed them by.
Setting that aside, dismissing Imus' problems to concentrate on a completely different issue IS misguided. Black culture may have created the words that he used, but they certainly didn't put them in his mouth. Bigotry is bigotry and regardless of whether its okay for blacks and not for whites to call each other "niggers" Don Imus just had his last public case of verbal diahrrea.
Imus was obviously guilty and IMO he is deserving of what he is getting - there is far too much precedent in these sorts of things for him not to have been fired.
Just wanted to cover my tracks when I take a plane full of passengers hostage you two can say that I am no hijacker.
I'm fresh out of puppy pix, but you didn't hijack.
So, in short, attack poverty and not the music of the impoverished.
And here enters arguments about rap music being co-opted and so forth, which is why I shouldn't have entered into it.
MrMike, I apologize for hijacking your post. Feel free to get even by posting random pictures of puppies in any of my entries and we will call it even.
Of course, the culture he wants us to attack exists for a reason. And that in of itself opens up a can of worms too large for a comment on a journal that just linked us to that article.
Thanks for the find, it was a fun read.