Category: thursday
06/15/06 08:34 - 77ºF - ID#32663
Thursday In the Squizare
Soul Live - live
Brokeback Mc Christian, hotty mcJesus brother.
Cute frank talks with the brokeback McChristian.
(e:lilho) looking fierce
She had them hanging out to the point where they almost fell out when she walked.
I can't believe hwo many motor cycles are at the event.
These pink pants are too much.
(e:mike) an dme in line for the porta potties
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: downtown
06/15/06 05:17 - 78ºF - ID#32662
A Day Trip to the DMV and Marina
I had not been to this part of the Buffalo MArina in years. It was pleasantly well set up and seemed to be bumping with people. I don't know who the people are that want to live on the waterfront considering there are so many other nice, affordable places to liv ein the city. (e:lilho) says it is people with boats.
I ate a cheeseburger for my second lunch today. They had a clam bar but I didn't notice it until after I ate the chesseburger. In fact they wine and beer plus free outdoor wifi and sitting areas. It is a great attraction that I think a lot of people don't know about.
A sign about the robberies around Roswell
A picture of the yummiest ribs they had for lunch. Came with two potatoes and corn on the cob.
The other night I cooked Tuna after the gym but I had no lemons so I tried blackberries. They worked well, it was yummy.
Our first house has been painted, finally.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: citylife
06/13/06 10:50 - 66ºF - ID#32661
Matthew and Main Street
So here is my problem. I am scared of Main Street at night time (sometimes even in the day), should I pretend I am not? Should I pretend that when I go to the Utica subway stop that I am not harassed and that I don't freak out reading the emails I get about Canisius Students and Roswell workers getting robbed in broad daylight.
I feel like I should be interested in it's revival it but on the other hand I don't feel like it is my responsibility. I feel like I didn't create the problem, I have no degree in Urban Planning or Sociology and I am a middle class, athiest, white gay man. I seriously doubt that anyone who lives across Main Street even wants my opinion on the issue.
I really believe the only way neighborhoods can change is from the inside. Something that I feel religious groups and large scale investors (jobs, etc) can help with. However, outside of economic and spiritual investment in a community, both of which I am not able to offer as an individual - outisde change seem so forced to me.
If I go to someone else's neighborhood and start cleaning trash off the street, what am I saying about the people that live there. Maybe they want trash on their streets, maybe their live suck enough where trash isn't even really an issue. If it was me I would be offended. I mean how would you like it if someone just want to your neighborhood and changed it to conform to their standards.
I feel like the situation is out of my control. Everyone talks about the divide and that it exists. And everyone aggrees that it is wrong but what is the answer? At least I am buying a house in the city and contributing $5000 in taxes each year to the city instead of to some gated suburb.
What is the answer? Thinking about it all angers me so much. I guess that is why people move to the suburbs, lol.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: citylife
06/13/06 06:47 - 68ºF - ID#32660
Neighborhoods
I really don't know what to do about the situation but I know that it is weird living next to the most segregated wall I have ever seen. Has anyone noticed that other cities are not quite as segregated as Buffalo?
We also make fun of people for being scared of the city but my aunt mentioned the other day that her brother never comes to the city because he is scared from when he was "driven out of his neighborhood." At first I though she was just referring to him feeling uncomfortable or being racist but then she explained more that as their eastside german neighborhood became a black neighborhood people even threw bricks through the windows and generally drove them out. That is a scary scenario. I have no idea what it was like in the 80s. but something was different because the mansion we rent now, which is like 6000 square feet and would go for about $250,000 now cost our landlords only $26,000 in 1986 according to the Historical Society.
Was anyone around in the 80s who can say what it was like?
Like like at UB there is a faculty member who documented the race riots of the summer of 1967.
Can anyone at UB get ahold of that for us?
Besag, Frank P. (Graduate School of Education)
17/F/146
Race riot interviews, 1967. Transcriptions of taped interviews with neighborhood people, store owners, and police immediately after the race riots in Buffalo in the summer of 1967; and paperback book ANATOMY OF A RIOT: BUFFALO 1967, based on the interviews. The interviews were part of a survey commissioned by State University of New York at Buffalo president Martin Meyerson.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: festivals
06/11/06 04:59 - 64ºF - ID#32659
Allentown Art Festival And MIA
(e:holly) said taking pictures of people's art is stealing. I don't really agree but it made me feel paranoid about filming the stuff.
The freakin' scientologists have littered the streets with their trash.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: birthdays
06/11/06 01:48 - 53ºF - ID#32658
Birthday Pics
This photo was an accident. I can't believ how scared my aunt looks. It is so funny.
Story Time
We watched a bunch of old family films. It was great to see everyone so young. Even Nonna was in the films, all of which were shot before I was born.
I couldn't believe it when shooting the squirrels randomly came up after writing about it this morning (e:paul,4428) Does anyone else remember Mr. Barry from Kenmore Middle?
The fun of amphetamines
Syphoning Wine
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: robotic animals
06/11/06 12:31 - ID#32657
As Seen In Cheektavegas
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: animals
06/10/06 01:02 - 59ºF - ID#32656
Behind the Grainmills, Over The Bridge
Back then it was always blammed on the Satan worshippers. Does anyone else in Kenmore remeber the wave of "Satan worshippers" from the 80s. What was up with that? I wish I was old enought to know if they thought they were real or if it was the adults perspective n the goth kids. I remember my best Friend James' babysitter got murdered back there too.
Yet I remember spending lots of time there because it was a combination of remote from the eyes of our parents and dangerous. It also had the entrance to the sewers which which played by and inside of plenty. As far as I was concerned it was as close to being in Goonies as I was gonna get.
As an industrial wasteland, I am sure it killed many more people than the satan worshippers ever did (e:paul,397)
The most graphic memory I have was going fishing with my Dad at Buckhorn State Park. I actually spent a lot of time there because the metro bus would take us to grand island, or because we would walk over the nasty bridge from kenmore. It was pretty far. I think Grand Island was one of the only places I ever hitchhiked in Buffalo. I remember it seemed so rural to me as a kid.
Anyways, I kept seeing fur in the water floating down the river and eventually followed the floating chunks to their source. A black garbage bag full of a large chopped up dog. Who chops up a dog and sticks it in a garbage bag at a state park? That image haunted me for a long time.
(MAP TO: BUCKHORN)
As a kid, I too was repsonsibile for a bit of the cruelty. I distinctly remmebr dresing up like "indians" and making bows and arrows out of sapling branches and heavy duty rubber bands. Then me and my friends would shoot the freakin' squirrels. I remember hitting the first one and feeling like it was really wrong.
I think it was because back then all the adults I knew hated the squirrels and talked about shooting them. Eiother way it was wrong and I feel guilty now.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: housing
06/09/06 01:16 - 66ºF - ID#32655
Closing July 11th
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: thursday
06/09/06 12:42 - 63ºF - ID#32654
Thursday Crusaders
I started out the evening with (e:enknot) at his friedns house, but there was a cat. Then we went to the square and (e:mike) showed up and I decided to walk around a bit.
Metropolis Mike
(e:mike) also suffers from allergies like me
This guy has a belt made out of bullets. I think its is gross.
I entertained myself with the Satan worshippers.
There were so few protestors this week and only one sign.
(e:libertad) and I felt bad for the cute one. He needed some liberation. (e:libertad) tried to give him his phone number but the kid asked him if he was a homo and wouldn't accept it.
Hotty McJesus
Watch this video - this man goes nuts on the "christians" and then the police pull him off them at the end.
(e:libertad) and the Hotty McJesus
I have a thing for Hotty McJesus
Some babble.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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