So the new minor league basketball team in Buffalo is called the Silverbacks which are like the elder alpha gorilla male. Some people in the community say it is offensive because much of the team is black males and using monkey or gorilla was often used as a deragatory term used towards black people. I can almost see that though I disagree because I think like the silverback is definetely like a more positive thing than for instance being called the monkeys. Anywho, i was reading the article and while I don't really agree , I could see the other people's point of view UNTIL THIS PART...

the one lady who thinks it is rascist said in reference to the logo and I quote "I did find it offensive. It looked like an angry black man". Ok here is the logo. I'll let you decide.



I did not look at that and think angry black man. I personally do not see a red haired foaming at the mouth fanged basketball playing gorilla and think angry black man but Eva M. Doyle of the Buffalo Criterion begs to differ.

Frankly, I think the fact that she thinks that is looks like an angry black man is frankly way more offensive. By the by, the team players are the ones who came up with the name.

Wow! usually TV Guide does provied too much entertainment but this week it is amazing. Here are a few tidbits:


1. David Hasselhoff is mad at his tv show America's Got Talent because and I quote "I want to be the act, not judge the act" He also hates Brandy becuase she always tries to fight him and dislikes the other judge becasue "He overstepped his territory once and tried to make a joke about my singing". Is there really a joke to make? Is the singing not a joke enough in itself ( particularly when he is on the Berlin Wall in a light up tuxedo)

2. There is a new show where singers such as Cyndi Lauper and Michael Bolton are paired with celebrities and sing ant the public votes off a celebrity each week.



3. Madonna's special on NBC will include her hanging from a "discoballed crucifix" singing "Live to Tell" because as NBC says it "was a cornerstone of the show"


that's all for now folks

As many of you know I did my senior thesis on how Walmart is ruining the world and the idea of community. Anywho, I did a section on Germany because it was the one place where Walmart had unionized employees because it was part of the deal or something when they bought the other company in Germany. Now as of yesterday they sold all their stores in Germany....coincidence I think not! I'll be honest there were many other problems in Germany too like people there don't like friendly customer service or people bagging your things for you and other chains already had reallylow prices but still I think the union thing played the biggest part. Living wages....why should they have to pay that? haha. Everywhere there has been a union, Walmart has closed!

I went to Betty on Virginia a few weeks back for dinner and didn't love it. But now i went for lunch today and it was amazing. I had the house salad with roasted vegetables and asiago cheese and it was sooo good. Their lunch menu is much more extensive than their dinner menu as well. Anywho, I definetely recommend it for lunch!! Simply delish!

No my title does not refer to Joan Rivers. I was driving home from church and drove by Mang Park (the local like park in Kenmore). The first thing I noticed was that the wood exercise ara is gone. It was like balance beams and bars and stuff. It had pictures with how to do all these different exercises. Why would tihs part be taken down? Well I guess in actuality it was rather dangerous as it was just really high bars that kids tried to swing and hang upside down on. Plus it was all made of wood and full of splinters.

Anywho what I am really wondering is how did the tube slide survive. It is this orange completley closed in tube slide. So like if you get in you cannot see the bottom. This leads to numerous people being at the bottom of the slide when someone flies out and smacks right into them. Or people climbing up the inside and then someone goes down and they all fall. In this age of everything has to be safe and impossible to get injured on I have no idea how this made it. They have removed everything else from the playground that was there in my day, how did this survive? Remember the rolling pin slide where your fingers and sticky skin alwyas got caught in between the roles? That's gone but someone this thing survived. It sticks out like a sore thumb with the new plasticy safe looking equipment cuz it is made of metal and rusty looking.

here is a picture of a similar slide






and here is a kid about to be plowed down by the person coming down the slide without realizing