🏷️ buffalo

Went to Shea's tonight with @zobar and @dragonlady7 to see Nosferatu performed with a live orchestra. It was a pretty fantastic setting for the movie. We sat in the front of the balcony area which was great.

Afterwards, we headed over to some bar in the first ward to have some drinks. It surprised me there was another part of Buffalo that looked full of white people. I guess I just never made it over there before. It looked a little like lovejoy but less intimidating.

First of all, I went to globe market with @terry and we got some mini pumkin pie cheesecake. I picked the on with walnuts on top. I seriously could eat all of them.


The wood carvings on display there as part of the Carvings For a Cause campaign which is raising money to help re-tree western New York after the october surprise from last year, and the one that might happen again this year.



I never knew who Nardin was named after.

Here are some pics from their flyer.

It doesn't list any web site, but it has some contact info.

To become a Sponsor or Donate to this historic project:
Contact: Therese Forton-Barnes
phone: 716-868-8868
email: events2at@aol.com

I have talked about Media Deli @paul #40698 a bunch of times in the past. Yesterday, there were actually a coupel people eating there in the morning and then today when i was walking past it on my way to work, I saw it was closed. Once I got to Main Street I saw why.



A freakin' car drove up the curb and slammed into it. I wonder if it was an accident or someone trying to cause damage or rob it.

Everything inside looked untouched, so it makes me think accident.


What is up with all the stores in the Allen Village being closed. I am hoping by calling it a village, everything will get fabulous.

This one is starting to smell moldy. I have a super power for detecting mold.



All the stuff in the windows is melting. It is such a weird mix of candles and food and knives.

The sky was so pretty yesterday after work.


I thought you guys would get a kick out of this.

Was pretty crazy. I did a lot of programming as usual, managed to break two windows, fix one window, and went to two shows in the Beyond In Western New York art opening.

The Beyond In Western New York 2007 Art Show just started. You should check out some of the events, both Rockwell Hall an dthe Albright Know were both bumping.


It rained so much the other night.


Looks like this squirrel just couldn't give up the chesnut.


He smushed.

Hm, railroad vacation land? @terry caught that one.

On a lighter now. We decided to do a tour of the Carapelli museum in the old Christian Scientist Church. The building seem so empty and lifeless. It looks like what would be the the government's Ministry ministry if there was one. It has a few manuscripts that you can freely look at. Currently, the selection includes hand written notes by famous criminals. The one from Charles Manson was peed on, he even wrote the word pee on the pee spot.











I do not believe that the hand written note from Gallileo, once of the only ones in the western hemisphere is sitting, unprotected in that empty building that you can just wander around in.

Their guest book seemed rather slim.

I have to say they had the nicest urinals I have probably ever seen. If they ever go out of business I would buy them. In buffalo you can actually wish for that kind of thing and have it be possible, lol.


I really love the Bemis house. I wish someday I could own a house like that one. Also, maybe could be possible in Buffalo.

Can you imagine having those bricks or those gargoyles.

The Mark Twain house was also pretty aweosme. You can't really tell how big it is till you go right up to it, or you see a picture with a person in it.



Look how big that freakin window is!


They are really fixin it up.




Three assholes on North, lol



And then there is this insane remudled house across the street. What the fuck is up with that upside down brick thing in front of the natural doorway. How did anyone decide to do that?

So this journal is just the "leftover" pics from my camera while taking pictures around the city this weekend.



Has anyone been to the North Bar on North in the Lenox Hotel yet?


The skaters in the park on North are always skating.


What is the deal with these empty pipes. Are they just cheaper than fill? Do they make it bouncy. I am pretty sure this place is becomming a playground.


Has anyone ever seen potato bugs congregate. Here there were hundreds of them. I wish I could have gotten a better pic of all of them, but the flash scared them away. I didn't realize that they did big groups.


They got the sept 11th flags out at the red cross center as tribtue to the victims of the world trade center terrorist attacks.


No comment.


This "tough guy" actually stopped in the middle of the intersection to flex. I wish I could have gotten that on camera, he looked redic.


We went to FWS to get sme fabric for re-apolstry.
@matthew is testing it out here

Normally, I don't like blue balls, but these ones were really cute.


As were the fluffy brown ones


I saw this trash outside a house at summer and elmwood. I didn't think you were allowed to put trash out all strewn around like that.


Is seems so weird to have the big iron fence at the psyche center. Who is is making feel safe, them or the people outside. Seeing as the gate is just open, it serves no real purpose, why not just remove it along with that gothic monstrocity - the Richardson complex. I say blow that creepy thing the fuck up. It is the one thing that I am definately not interested in preserving. What is it, a monument to cruelty?



This picture drew my attention so I took a pic of the picture hanging on the wall at underground - which I might add is really lame now. We paid a 3 dollar cover for a not so packed bar. At least @jim and I got to dance a little bit. I would suggest never eating fish with white wine, drinking a chocolate martini and then dancing.



@jim and @james and @terry hugged the biggest tree on the way home.


The next morning some people int he driveway for the church next door were freaking out about something they wanted to hit with a shovel. I think it was some animal that got in the church that they were afraid of. Maybe a squirrel.

On friday August 24th at around 9PM four of us went to Cozumel at 153 Elmwood Avenue in the Allentown area of Buffalo, NY in order to get nachos($10) and rock shrimp ($12) along with some frosty mixed drinks. Generally this ends up costing around $60+ for 4 people because the appetizers are expensive as are the drinks. The outdoor bar was packed with people so we went inside to site and they seated us.

When we went to order our blond waitress went and spoke with the ugly brown haired one and then came back and she they refused to serve us at a table if we didn't order dinners. She said we could only order appetizers at the bar which is complete bullshit as we have eaten appetizers and ordered drinks there many times sitting at a booth. There were about 8 empty tables so it's not like we were taking up space. She was just being a lazy bitch.

It will be a while before I ever go back there which is their loss because I have spent a lot of money there in the past. @terry said he overheard the one waitress saying she didn't feel like serving anymore that night.

The rest of the evening
Then we headed over to Couter Bay where a bunch of epeeps were hanging out @jim #40718 Got to meet @drew (who looks and is much younger than in his pic) and @janelle (his lovely wife) and hang with @jim , @james , @jbeatty , @fellyconnelly and @lauren . It was a great evening. Afterwards, we headed over to Frizzys to meet up with @mike , @beast and @maureen then over to Cathode Ray where I saw Brian and we got our picture taken by the Buffalo Barfly photographer. Then off to Roxy's where we danced for the first time in a long time. It was nice to see @jim dance and be happy like myself. Holy crap I accidently typed mysql the first time I was typing mysql, lol. I'm bringing dorky back.

Check out my other two journals before this one. I finally plugged in my Camera to change so I grabbed some pics off it.

Today we went to lunch at Kuni's on The go over on Lexington. The food was delicious as usual. Outside the Coca Cola truck parked to drop off a beverage delivery. Check out the rusty propane tank on the truck. It looks like maybe it could use a safety inspection?!



Here is a pic of Megan standing in front of our house after lunch with e:jima nd @enknot today.



You can see the moving truck of our new roommate who is moving in today. I hope this works out and he doesn't eat all our food, lol unlike nameless bitch our old roommate.

People ask me why I am not so fond of the sky mansion building that is supposed to be going up on Gates circle. Well the reason is these two towers down the street from the proposed location. I am sure they looked oh so sheik when the were first be erected but now they look like horrible anachronisms. I doubt glass and chrome exteriors will look modern in the "Real Future"


@hodown and @lilho 's ex step sister, Jessica Magleietto, is now running for office in the Delaware District of Buffalo. That is so awesome - she is just about @lilho 's age. At first I just assumed it was someone with the same name but then i saw this billboard on the corner of Delaware and West Delevan. I hope she wins.

@matthew and I were talking about the term megalopolis and trying to remember exactly what the deifntion was so we looked it up in wikipedia
(WIKIPEDIA - megalopolis)

A megalopolis is defined as an extensive metropolitan area or a long chain of roughly continuous metropolitan areas in the United States and Canada. The term was first used in the United States by Jean Gottmann in 1957, to describe the huge urban area along the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. from Boston, Massachusetts to Washington, D.C. ...A megalopolis is also frequently a megacity, or a metropolitan area with a total population in excess of 10 million people.

which lead me to the definition of a megacity (WIKIPEDIA - Megacity) where I learned

In 2000, there were 18 megacities - conurbations such as Tokyo, Mexico City, Bombay, Sao Paulo and New York City - that have populations in excess of 10 million inhabitants. Greater Tokyo already has 35 million, more than the entire population of Canada.

By 2025, according to the Far Eastern Economic Review, Asia alone will have at least 10 hypercities, those with 20 million or more, including Jakarta (24.9 million people), Dhaka (25 million), Karachi (26.5 million), Shanghai (27 million) and Bombay (with a staggering 33 million).[9] Lagos has grown from 300,000 in 1950 to an estimated 15 million today, and the Nigerian government estimates that city will have expanded to 25 million residents by 2015.[10] Chinese experts forecast that Chinese cities will contain 800 million people by 202

Buffalo
Which got me thinking about Buffalo's (WIKIPEDIA - Buffalo,_New_York) and it's population. I knew that it was somewhere around 300,000 but wasn't sure on actual figures. It was fantastic to see it as a chart. It is interesting to see we have returned to our late 1890's population level. Think about that. While people in Tokyo are living packed in at 35 million in their greater metropolitan area we only have around a million in Western New York.



Some people probably think that is depressing but think it great. Just think about how much more space we have.

On another note, I went for a walk down elmwood today while picking up a baby gift for @enknot at Treehouse and noticed that all the stores have either shut down or changed into new stores. It is amazing how different it is. It makes me wonder if anything can really survive there, if the "village" is actually doing well, or if all of the new vilage talk is just hype.

I was amazed to see that Stache moved from that little downstairs store front near the elmwood village apartments between Highland and Lexington to the half timber storefront house near Lafayette and elmwood right by Shoe Fly, kind of across from the Coop. I think it is the first time someone survived that location and then moved on up. Good for them.

The building on Main street that I reported about last week @paul #40420 continues to fall in on itself. Word on the street is that the roof collapsed and the floors below collapsed because of that. You can really see it all collapsed on the inside from the street. Now they have it blocked off. It is a DANGER! according to the police and probably according to everyone.


I wonder what is going to happen with it. It seems like gutting it would be really hard considering it is a pile of fallen debris and floors. Even the basement floor is missing. Apparently, this is what happens when you ignore roof repair and the weather gets in. Is there going to just be a big giant whole in main street across from the Amherst subway station?!



I suppose something has to be done soon.

I finally got my phone back but these pics are from before the phone came back. If you have a sprint Pocket PC 6700 and need a new operating system I got it. Lots of new features, same old phone. Its like getting a free upgrade. You never really realize how much software plays a role in the lifespan of hardware. I took them with as still shots of the mobile video cam on my nokia n800 so excuse the quality it was never meant for photography.

I was really sad to say goodbye to my first computer desk. It is amazing how long we stayed together. I had it since my first commodore vic 20 back in the mid 80s ;( It really just had no where to go anymore and laptops kind of made the desk obsolete. Plus it was ugly as hell.