As (e:sqb) mentioned [inlink]sqb,120[/inlink] Pano's is considering knocking down the Atwater cariage house. (e:matthew), (e:terry), and I are also boycotting Pano's until this issue is resolved. We also eat there several times a week. I am sad to miss the tasty food, but I also don't want elmwood to look like a plaza.

The list keeps growing so fast. Since (e:terry) signed the petition about ten minutes ago there are ten new people.

Here are some great quotes by boycotters:

[size=m]Ian MacDonald[/size]
    Please don't demolish the Atwater House. Please consider obtaining the Forest/Elmwood Parking lot instead. The city can't handle it, it looks like hell and it needs a real owner. There is so little of Buffalo's heydays left except the architecture and the character of the Elmwood strip is a reflection of those days. Parking lots on Elmwood will only make it more suburban and then whats the draw? Lastly it sets the example for other property owners. What is then to stop the numerous slumlords from demolishing their houses to charge for parking? not a pretty sight.

[size=m]Alan Kegler[/size]
You have got to be kidding. Are we as a city loosing our minds. Stop this idoicy immediately before all of our working, eductated people leave the city. Pedistrian friendly (as opposed to car traffic), walkable neighborhoods with magnificant architecture is exactly what attracted my wife and I to this neighborhood. Demolishing buildings like this will only aid in us wanting to move out.

Everyone should switch to firefox . Iy is definately better than IE in so many ways. I have talked about it many time sn my journal [search]firefox[/search] It is especially ideal if you are a web developer. It's web development tools are such time savers. As always firefox, remains the offically supported browser of elmwoodstrip.com.

Thanks (e:sqb) for the update info [inlink]sqb,112[/inlink]

UPDATE: WOW live bookmarks are mazing. This is really the greatest technology. Check it out. First install the new firefox. Then when you load any users journal, simply click on the little orange rss icon that shows up in th lower left hand corner of the browser. It will let you subscribe to their journal as a live bookmark. This allows you to see all of their entries as live bookmarks in your bookmark list which continually update. You will love it!!!!!

I saw the below article today in the Buffalo News. I hope that they don't end thurday in the square out of honor for civil war veterans. I guess you all know how I feel abot soldiers in gernerals, and especially how I feel about their glorification via large stone phalic structures. I personally think they should just knock the monument down to make more room for the future. Why should we remember the killing and snuff the future.

This is generally what happens in Buffalo. Something starts up and becomes sucessful and then some people make a problem out of it and the city goes to rust. I am not even a big fan of Thursday in Square, but I definately see it as one of the public functions that keeps Downtown Buffalo semi-alive. Imagine how much business revenue is generated due on of the massive 10,000 person events. It also brings out a sense of community and commrodery amoung the many attendees, that is rare to city in our city of snow and indoor activitiews.

In fact it is one of the few Buffalo events besides The Taste Of Buffalo where you actually see racial integration. Does anyone remeber the Arrested Development? That was the most racially integrated event I have ever attended in our oh so segregated city.

Here is the artcile ->

Veterans groups are unhappy with crowds swarming the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Monument during Thursday at the Square concert events.

Concerts upset VFW
By LOU MICHEL- News Staff Reporter - 9/14/2004

Good vibrations abound during Thursday at the Square concerts in downtown Buffalo - except for some members of the area's biggest veteran organization, who think the gatherings dishonor a war memorial at the site.

The Erie County Council of Veterans of Foreign Wars wants Buffalo Place, sponsor of the free concert series in Lafayette Square, to halt the successful event that draws thousands of concertgoers, a majority of them from the suburbs, to the heart of downtown.

"It's a veterans' memorial and it should not be used for concerts, drinking or merriment if we're going to abide by the meaning of the monument. It's hallowed ground," said Clarence E. Buob, commander of the council, which represents about 9,000 local veterans.

At the center of the controversy is the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Monument, a massive granite memorial built in 1882, that is thronged with people who come to watch the concerts and party every Thursday after work starting in late May.

I would like to re-write that second last paragraph as:

"It's a park in the center of a living city with many people and should not be used for veteran's memorials, as a museum, or silent area if we are going to abide by the meaning of a having living city. It is viable land. I am sure many of you feel different. feel free to voice your opinion.

I was reading this Reader/readers essay by Phillippe Bootz for the classI am taking with Loss Glazier at UB when I came across a video presentation by Phillippe Bootz in Erfurt, Thueringen. I used to live right next to there. I wonder when the presentation took place.

While the essay is interesting, the project itself looks dated. I wonder if e-poetry is all very dated looking but I am excited to learn more about it.

I have about 1000 new things I want to do with the site my problem is now time and balancing the site development with my homework load and job.

(e:nparkproject),[inlink]nparkproject,3[/inlink] you should record some songs for the elmwood radio station. Also, if you have any upcomming events you could post them on the calendar.