Chico's Journal

12/13/2006 01:43 #21206

random cityscape pics from summertime

A random walk through some old subfolders turned up the 7.6 bazillion photos I took while apartment hunting in Buffalo over the summer. I was in the Elmwood area, the Gates Circle area, the little neighborhood north of the zoo, and knocking around Hertel... anyway, long story short, here's some of the pics. I'm not sure if it's because chica and I were drooling over snow tires on TireRack.com tonight, but I am finding all the summer foliage shots comforting.

W. Delevan

Hodge

Great looking porch off a double on St James Place

Tillinghast

Delaware Ave heading north

Hertel Ave

Rand (I think)

It might not look like much now, but in about a week, I'm sure this garage off Gates Circle is going to look awfully tempting...

hodown - 12/13/06 10:57
Aw, that makes me miss home..

12/10/2006 12:02 #21205

Sunday Morning Coming Down
Category: the day after

Great party PMT. Happy Birthday again, (e:enknot) , yeah you're old.

Had a really good time meeting new people, playing "tree" to the sugar gliders, and trying to avoid being swept off the roof by a gust of wind.

Many thanks to (e:zobar) , (e:dragonlady7) , and (e:jenks) ' friend Tracee for offering rides home. If we successfully repopulate B-lo maybe we can get the Metro to run after 12 midnight and I will not have to rely on the kindness of (e:peeps) (at least so many of you are so kind).

I'm not so much hung over, just tired...been a while since I was out till 4 am. I know (e:chicoschica) would've been dancing till dawn if she was there, though.

In conclusion, I offer you a poor-quality YouTube clip of Johnny Cash singing "Sunday Morning Coming Down."

12/07/2006 23:02 #21204

strange request
Category: xmas gift hunt

Anyone know of places to look for "interesting" fish bowls?

My sister's boyfriend has some kooky decorating idea for their apt in Jersey City and has asked for interesting fish bowls for Christmas.

Any ideas? Or anyone out there who is able to design & decorate ordinary fishbowls in interesting and artful ways?

chico - 12/10/06 12:32
Many thanks to everyone who made fishbowl suggestions... I'm going to track down these leads just as soon as I can. Cheers!

joshua - 12/08/06 16:16
Find a glass blower that usually does bongs and see if they'd do a fishbowl.

Otherwise... try The Fish Store. They are in the phone book.

ladycroft - 12/08/06 11:29
Mexico ;)

leetee - 12/08/06 10:16
Arg.... (e:Uncutsaniflush) and i were out recently and saw interestingly shaped fish bowls (one was a fish, i think) made of glass and for the life of me i cannot remember where!! May have been Steve's Pets out in Williamsville... Maybe Petsmart?

That probably wasn't much help, huh?

dragonlady7 - 12/07/06 23:26
We used to keep our betta fish in weird-shaped flower vases-- go to Michael's or Bed Bath & Beyond or the like.
We have one that looks like a brandy snifter (holds about a half-gallon), one that looks like a (32-oz) martini glass, and one that looks like a (64-oz) hurricane glass.

The martini glass isn't really very good for the fish, though. It's ok in terms of surface area and the like, but the optics fuck with the poor fooshies' heads. We don't keep fish in that one anymore. But it's sitting in our 15-gal fishtank as a decoration, which is cute when the catfish latches onto the side of it like some kind of desperately confused miniature alcoholic.

12/02/2006 12:59 #21203

Two Pieces of Good News

First, we hear so much bad news about the economy in Buffalo and WNY that I was pleasantly surprised to see the following article in the Buffalo News:

It reports an unanticipated surge in orders for goods manufactured in our area last month. Hey, it's something.

Second, and more important ( ;-) ), (e:chicoschica) came in 4th in her age group in Medaille College's 5k Reindeer Run today! Congratulations, chica! You rule.

mrmike - 12/02/06 14:40
congrats to chica. That must have been tough on a day like today

11/30/2006 23:18 #21202

Go Big, Go Long, or...
Category: iraq

The Daily Show's Rob Riggle just filed a "news" report on the US's options in Iraq:

Go Big (send more troops)

Go Long (plan to stay for years to come)

or Go Fuck Yourself ("pretty much what we've been doing")

Brilliant!

dcoffee - 12/01/06 14:20
hahaha well put