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The pink house on the corner of North Pearl and Allen is for sale. i wish I could buy it. I think it would fit @hodown quite well. You should move here and buy it. It is bigger than my house but pink and with apartments in it.

It's the one on the corner and it is for sale by owner. I never realized how big the one next to it is.



The cut the trees down on Franklin. I guess it is the aftermath of October surprise.




I brought this one home to maybe make a table thingy for the backyard.



The building at 920 main street caved in on the inside and the floor in front of the door is missing.


At least it looks like a cave in when you look through the glass. I mean it doesn't look like it could be intentional.

Looks like the store front on the corner of Allen and Main is turning into a gallery this week.



The touch screen on my PPC 6700 stopped working which leaves me in a weird place as the iphone doesn't do what I want and I don't want this phone anymore. I might just get a tmobile sidekick again. That was the best device I ever had and now that I always carry a camera anyways I could care less about the quality of the camera.

On friday night @tinypliny stopped by and we made indian food. It was quite delicious.

First we made the indian spice power. It was some powerful and pleasantly tasty stuff.




I didn't realize this pic of @tinypliny in the kitchen came out so crappy. I guess we will need to take a better one next time.


Wow Chippewa is covered in gum stains. I never really noticed before. I guess people really just spit there gum out waitin gin line to go to Level and McMonkies.

I am so fascinated with this house on franklin. What happend to it? I mean what did it used to be. I wrote about it before but no one seems to have said anythign about its past. Like what are the chess tables from.






My other favorite house on Summer. They have faux slate asphalt roof.





I feel bad for the owner of this porch on Summer. It looks like it needs some serious help.



@matthew and @terry tried to fit through this alley on Franklin. It hate things you can't turn around in.



Neo is closing on Franklin. What the heck is gonna go there. I hope it becomes something and doesn't end up empty or yet another crappy antique shop. It would be terrible for Cafe 59 but if a Spot Coffee moved in there I think they would make a killing. Check out that car outside.


This is how @matthew generally looks on the weekend.


I wanted to go to the beach today but they were closed for contamination, blah. It makes me sad that the beaches are always closed when I want to go. Then again it is better they are closed than if I got sick.

I was content with going to Zoar Valley but that was nixed too. We ended up going to Salsaritas. Ya exactly, it might as well have been lunch on monday. I really wanted to do something exercise filled and away from the city.

I hate weekends. If you think is hard to make up your mind what to do when you are single, or even in a two person relationship - just imagine how difficult it is with three people that all like completely different things. We usually just end up really mad at each other, go nowhere and don't have sex because we are angry about not deciding what to do.

Instead I thinking I am going to go to Home Depot and buy supplies so that I have something to do. I am thinking that filling the mortar gaps in the back might be fun!

I left work early today because I stayed so late the other days this week. I have been stressing about my job - and not bad way. I just can't stop thinking about certain projects - which is making everyone around me insane I think.



I went to Panaro's on Delaware for lunch with @enknot and @terry. It was delicious, I don't know how I never saw it before. Plus the blond waitress we had was awesome. I would recommend that place anyday - the prices were very reasonable. I think it may be one of my new favorite places. I wish I took pictures but I forgot that I had my camera back. It is weird to have it back after it been broken and then gone for so long.

We cleanup up the yard at the rental property today. I can't believe how tall the weeds got in such a short amount of time.

There were so many daisies and other weeds.


The prickery weeds had wood like roots.

I found this weird witches broom in the backyard of the property. I wonder if my tenants made it?

It looked nice when we were done.


It looks like Medina Deli over on North and Main is almost ready. I am so excited to see something be on that corner. It has come such a long was see we did public transphere a couple years back. At that time it looked like the bombed out shell of a building.



Now the question is what will happen with the yellow mansion at 23 North. It is the last thing waiting to be redone. There has been a big sign out front that said apartments were coming soon since last season but it has remained boarded up and they haven't done any work over the entire summer which is not a good sign. I remember when @matthew wanted to buy it and we took a tour with the realtor @paul #32592 . Man that place was disgusting.

Ridiculous Rant You Can Just Ignore
Okay, this is ridiculous - I am really not poor - but I am sad I am not going to Hutches tonight because I am "too poor". I wanted to go to Hutches with @imk2 and her boyfriend and @terry said we are too poor because he spent all our money on pharmacy school. I know, I know - money that will turn into more money - but not right now while I want to go to Hutches. It is like the one restaurant I have never been to and everyone raves about it. After writing that I feel like someone should kill me but - damn it - I really wanted to go to Hutches. Okay, enough of that drama.

I want my camera back so bad!! We went to Urban Roots and Buffalo Salvage this afternoon. The Urban Roots garden center place seemed pretty cool, unfortunately we already had most of the kinds of flowers they offered.


After we went to Buffalo ReUse , a non-profit organization aimed at reusing building material from housing that are being demolished. They are located next to the Washington Market downtown. They have some job opportunities open too

I can't believe how many houses are awaiting demolition in our city.

Organizational Overview
Buffalo ReUse, Inc. is a new not-for-profit organization committed to developing the practice of deconstruction to create a community minded alternative to demolition. In Buffalo, there are estimates that between 10 and 20,000 structures await demolition and the city has tentative plans to demolish 1,000 houses a year indefinitely. Deconstruction, the careful disassembly of a building in the opposite order that it was originally created, is the vehicle for diverting reusable materials from the landfill; providing a source of high quality materials for homeowners; providing meaningful job opportunities; and creating positive changes in the neighborhoods in which we work.

Looks like they are just starting but there is a similar place in Rochester that seems more established

We also went and took a look at the building being demolished on Delaware near Niagara Square that @metalpeter wrote about the other day.

This is in response to @james #39620

I think it is a great idea to incorporate the suburbs into the city of Bufflao proper as has happend in many other cities that are growing.

However, I know people from Kenmore would probably fight to the death before they let it happen. Which leads me to think - why not just declare war on Kenmore and Amherst.

Having been born in Buffalo and raised in Kenmore, I fully see what is going on. My parents left Buffalo for Kenmore the year I was born. The real reason most people in the suburbs would never allow this to happen is because:

1. The school system of Buffalo cannot compete with the suburban ones.

2. The police don't come when you call here. I have experience this twice.

3. Many suburbanites are totally freakin' racist/classist and can't stand the thought of mixing their kids with american black, hispanic, arab, somali or poor kids. I know people are going to harp on me for this but it is true - so why not talk about it.

When I first moved to Linwood, everyone was like I cannot believe you are going to live that close to Main Street, and let's be honest - you all know what they meant. I can't believe you are going to live that close black people.

The other option is to be really wealthy and stay in the city on a street like St. James and send you kids to private school for between $5000-$30000 a year. I definately think a lot more people are taking that route than before.

I just had this moment reading Buffalo Rising where I wondered if anything they say is really something they believe, or if it is all something they are paid to say. This one video about the new tower condos on Delaware where the Park Lane used to be was just so over the top one-sided.

The woman who runs the Washington Market sounds like such a tool. She really needed to rehearse better before her embarrassing interview.

Screenshot from their video


I am all about new buildings being built downtown, although, a part of me wonders whether or not they will just end up being empty. I mean how many $300,000+ condo laden sky scrapers can you build in a city. like Buffalo As @matthew said, is the problem really that we don't have enough desirable housing for rich people? It seems that anyone spending $300,000+ could get a lot better deal than the same thing they already have in every other big city.

I wonder if they will all just end up out competing themselves.

The Deer In My Yard
This is pretty crazy. This morning there was an adult deer freaking out in our backyard. @matthew saw it while I was in the shower and the neighbors called 911 and the SPCA, neither of which came. It eventually got out and took off down Linwood going north. When I talked to my friend Robert today, he said that he saw in last week on Linwood. I wonder where it came from and how long it has been here.



He thought this mirror in the back of the yard was a way out. He smeared his nose all over it and broke the frame.




I wonder how long it will be before the lion crumbles off this building.

So I had horrible allergies, went to the festival. Ate a lobster sandwich, it was pretty good.



Does anybody know the story about these chairs on Franklin? What was the place, a coffeshop?


People seem to love police horses. You could even buy mounted police souvenirs.




Afterwards we toured the church next to our house. I know I said that they sold their pews before, and everyone asks me what it looks like, but I didn't know they really sold them all. It looks so strange.



I cut my hair when not wearing classes which turned into me needing a buzz cut. I didn't notice I wasn't using the safety guard.

I am usually the most pro-buffalo person I know but right now I would rather live in any much colder or hotter-dryer climate. It's not about the weather. In fact, I love hot and humid and it rarely bothers me to be warm. Just as @hodown, I have been known to wear a sweater in august on the subway in New York City.



The thing about this year is that I can't believe my allergies. Like I don't think I can live here anymore if it is like this from now on. The last week has been hell for me, but the last three days have been the worst.

Since yesterday afternoon my nose has just been dripping water. Like not even snot. It just drips and drips and drips. My eyes are swollen shut and I have itched my throat and nose raw.

Going outside makes it even worse. I just want it to be winter again, and that is so sad. I mean I always had allergies before but not like this. Maybe I live near something particularly allergic to me.

I am so strung out from being on allergy medicine. Clariton always worked for me before. Like 95% allergy free when I would take it but this time I am so allergic I decided to try benedryl, which did nothing but make me a zombie.

To make it worse I decided to cut my hair but being blind without my glasses on I forgot to put a safety on the razor which led to me cutting a stripe in my hair. Now I am completely skin head. I guess itis the right time of year.

I ended up just carrying around a hanky.

Does anyone remember jelly bracelets. I know that @hodown does. But what you might not know is that they came out of Buffalo. Here is the thing. I don't know they were made here but I do know they were nationally distributed from my very favorite former zipcode. 14222.



I was going through the box of muppet magazine from my childhood and found this advertisement. It made me want to go pin my pants. I just might do it for tomorrow if I can find some pins.







Our air plant committed suicide. I think it is actually still fine but just wanted attention.


@enknot ordered the squid rings at Kuni's To Go today.


Saw the rubble on high street this morning.




This tree in @holly 's sister appartment building parking lot is really eaten up by bugs.




Clams were on sale at tops. Really, really on sale and I like those kind. I waited in line for like 15 minutes because, according to the worker, the guy who was supposed to pre-count for the sale wasn't in. I got 5 dozen. Then I dropped the bag and 20 of them jst pretty much exploded with cla juice and dripped all over me and the store. That must have been fun to clean up. I felt really bad. The guy had given my the clams in a slippery mesh net with no bag. Looking back I think a plastic bag would have been in order.


We went to that Buffalo Clearance and Supply at Great Arrow and it is really freakin' weird. Everything seems to be used. Like the stoves their were selling still had food caked on them? Weird, right - where does the shit come from. The ovens weren't very cheap either.


They had this cool looking mod furniture.


The irises finally opened. We have a purple one and a yellow one.






We ended up getting an oven for the tenants at orvilles. I will really miss the old oven that my grandmother always cooked in.




I really want this leather couch and love seat set. It is only $1099 for both. It seems like such a freakin deal that I won't even tell you where it is. It isn't new, its used but everything I always dreamed about in a furniture set.






They also had this red couch for $399.






This signature tool at the tops checkout seems so primitive.


Went with @lilho to try and sell her car to one of my tenants. She is selling it for $100 and it goes. I mean it has problmes but a car that goes for $100 is a rock bottom deal and the girl buying asked if @lilho had an itemized list of problems. Was she going to try and bargain. I mean an ipod cost more than $100.




This apple looked so lonely all by itself in the parking lot at Northtown Plaza. I wonder how it got there.


At tops they had personal watermelons. Is that really necessary.


Finally, as promised, the pink sidewalks in Kenmore.


I love this graffitti at the west side stores.





I have ripped hundreds of yards of wire out of our house and off our house. Used to be offices in it I think. There was one wire coming from the church that was an inch thick.

I just posted three journals, one after the other - so keep reading down the page if you are interested.

On the way home from the central terminal for @tina 's art show @paul #38904 I took a picture over like 10 blocks every time my camera was ready This is not a selective or staged picture taking of all the boarded up crappy houses but rather as many shots as I could get on the way from The Central Terminal to downtown.

I can't believe people actually live there - maybe they don't from the looks of it. When did it all start looking like this? Having spend a lot of time in Love Joy as a kid (that's where my dad is from) I never realized what surrounded it until I was an adult. We always took the thruway to get there. I guess I know why.


It's sad how I always think Buffalo is getting better and then I remember that I never leave but about 20% of it to see the rest.


On the way home we stopped on Allen to buy some wine for dinner and I saw these notices on what used to be Second Skin - the building at the end of Allen next to Days Park.

Apparently, the guy who bought it wants to open a restaurant there but the neighbors are fighting him on it. I really don't see why as it is all commercial restaurants and bars there anyways.

I also noticed that Frank's has new management. What kind of bar is it?