Category: pets

09/14/11 02:19 - ID#55151

Tortoises Fight, Basra "Wins"?

I think its not going to work out with the new tortoise. Despite having a giant backyard to play in they find each other and fight or have sex. I don't think its going to be possible to keep them together indoors without one killing the other.

Strangely, when I got home it was the little one attacking Basra. He must have had a bad day because matt found him upside down in the pond pit when he got home. Sadly it seems that youtube cannot handle the video which is weird because it is totally normal on my phone and I uploaded twice with the same problem.

It wasn't long before he turned the situation around. What surprising is just how long they can have sex for. It must have gone on for over an hour. By the end he was foaming at the mouth and drooling. Its so weird because they never make any noise accept for that.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/14/11 02:28

Category: hiking

09/14/11 02:11 - ID#55150

Prayer In The Park

We went hiking at Niagara Gorge the other day and the Christians had some prayer in the park thing going on.

I can't believe how loud they are. There were like 15 of them but with their loud speakers you would think it was for a crowd of 500.

Why is having a giant loudspeaker not illegal in a state park? I mean most of the people came there to visit the nature and you couldn't hear anything over their bullshit.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/14/11 02:11

Category: roadkill

09/13/11 07:52 - ID#55148

Not The Chicken Wing

Saw this next to Ulrich's today and thought it would make a good addition to my roadkill photos although this looks like a distinctly feline creation.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/13/11 07:52

Category: pets

09/11/11 01:18 - ID#55140

Basra is Gay

At least they are not fighting.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/11/11 01:18

Category: dancing

09/11/11 12:25 - ID#55137

Welcome to outerspace

The location is awesome. There are three stories of dancefloors. One in giant theater with a massive vinyl dance floor. It is so perfectly slippery. Then they have an outdoor stage.

Sadly, although I am dancing I am wildly preoccupied with several other issues. Sometimes I wish I had the constitution to be a heroin junkie so I could just escape.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/11/11 12:25

Category: allentown

09/10/11 04:56 - ID#55131

Harold's on Allen - Going out if business?

I wonder what happened. Even more so I winder what will go there. I hope another restaurant. I love having restaurants close to work and home.

tinypliny writes at 08:03:44 09/10/11 - Comment #64951: Maybe you should do a photographic series on the peculiarities of period furniture in erstwhile Buffalo.

matthew writes at 07:43:32 09/10/11 - Comment #64950: This makes me sad. I bought a lot of stuff from Harold. Unlike most antique stores in allentown, his stuff was actually affordable to most people who live in the city. I went to an antique dealer on Elmwood and Allen and there was nothing in the shop that cost less than $2,000. I asked him how he managed to stay open, he replied that 90% of his business is from selling pieces online. Local business? Harold curiosities shopped was one of the old style antique shops before the age of antique roadshow and eBay. You could go there and find actual antique pieces of furniture that were made and/or owned originally in Buffalo. Ask all the new antique shops on Hertle Ave where their stuff comes from, the answer is all over the county , from eBay. Harold could actually tell you where every piece he sold came from. Not just whether it was from Buffalo or East Aurora, he could tell you what family commissioned the piece to be made and who owned it up to the year it was sold off. You cant get that info from online shopping. I have a 1922 Mersman table that I bought from Harold for $175. he told me it was originally a piece from the Williams and Pratt Mansion (now know as the Butler Mansion at Delaware & North ( I didn't believe him until he showed me a photograph.)) and it means more to me than other piece of furniture I own. Good luck, Harold.

tinypliny writes at 07:22:22 09/10/11 - Comment #64949: Or is that Cafe 56? I forgot. I also forgot the name of the mediterranean place. Fickle is my memory. Hummus plate? Pita pit? what was it... it has a branch elsewhere on elmwood too. Damn it. I just can't remember!!!

tinypliny writes at 07:20:57 09/10/11 - Comment #64948: Oh lol, no wonder there are chairs in the window. I thought they had stacked their restaurant chairs there for sale. Speaking of restaurants on Allen, has anyone tried the new place that replace the disastrous Mediterranean place next to Cafe 65?

heidi writes at 06:37:15 09/10/11 - Comment #64944: It was an antique shop. Yeah, more restaurants! :-)

tinypliny writes at 05:48:18 09/10/11 - Comment #64931: Where was this place? I don't even remember seeing it. What did it serve?

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/10/11 04:56

Category: dancing

09/10/11 04:29 - ID#55130

DJs from Outerspace

I am so exited to go dancing close to home in a large space tonight

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/10/11 04:29

Category: pets

09/09/11 05:28 - ID#55123

$200 Later

The vet spent an hour picking wood chips out of the tortoises butt. An xray made apparent the woodchips ate impacted throughout the entire intestines.

Now we just have to wait and see if the cavity created by the removal if some chips will let the other chips out. If not they are going to have to try tubes which sounds very expensive. Poor Guy.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/09/11 05:28

Category: yuk

09/09/11 04:04 - ID#55122

Even through a beach blanket

The reading selection at the vet has a
lot of info about worms.

For hookworms it says,

People most often get infected when they are lying on the ground at the beach and the larvae penetrate the skin. Yes, the larvae can penetrate through a beach blanket

For tapeworms of type Echinococcus multilocularos

Treat these tapeworm infections aggressively in pets, because if humans get infected, approximately half die.

Call me cruel, but if my pet had those I would definately consider wrapping it in a plastic bag and throwing it out.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/09/11 04:04

Category: pets

09/09/11 03:47 - ID#55121

At the vet with tortoise b

So the new tortoise has been straining to poop for three days. It's so sad to see it trying so hard. Today I tried to give it a mini tortoise enema with a pop bottle and was able to fish out a bunch of wood chips and a plastic plant material but I could tell he was totally impacted.

The poor guy must have had nothing to eat but the wood chips that lined the cage.

The vet just brought out an entire bowl if wood chips. She is going to xray and see what's left. Luckily he isn't bleeding at all.