Well after reading
I thought it would be a good idea to attend Buffalo's Annual Blogtoberfest and get our peeps to meet some of Buffalo's other bloggers. The flyer was so damn misleading because it has no mention of the actual Octoberfest going on there. When we arrived and there were like 600 cars in the parking lot, I though, "Holy shit - I have totally underestimated Buffalo's blogging community." Now I do kind of live in my own web bubble here at estrip.
I barely, venture out to the other blogs but I was totally astounded when we also saw lots of elderly people.
(e:jim) - so many of these bloggers are elderly, that's awesome! it's great things are spreading out through the population!
Slowly, once inside - I realized that it was by no means a blogtoberfest but rather a regular octoberfest. We found the table where
(e:zobar) and
(e:dragonlady) were waiting. Luckily, I just his chatter on my phone and knew they were there.
So we were pretty much the only bloggers there - either that or we scared all the other ones away. It was
(e:metalpeter),
(e:mike),
(e:libertad),
(e:jim), :james,
(e:terry),
(e:zobar),
(e:dragonlady) and I. I met one guy from punaro.com
I am pretty sure that this is the last non estrip, blogging event I will attend until some of the other bloggers attend one of our parties.
As for the octoberfest itself, I was totally disappointed in the food. It sucked. It was like they removed everything good that was german and replaced it polish. It seems to be every buffalo German event is somehow way too polish. I guess Buffalo is just a polish town. We even brought up how you can get pirogies at the Italian Festival now.
Also Steel Drums had jerk chicken there. It just seemed so out of place. I wish that German events ever had more than bland hot dog like sausages and sauerkraut. That is only a fraction of what Germans eat. If you went to a festival in Germany, the food is just so much better.
I am pretty sure that this was my terminal, terminal event.
(e:jim) and
(e:metalpeter) took lots of pictures.
Other pics from Saturday
The park lane with a sky crane out front. When are they knocking it down?
Someones end the war sign from a lawn over on Lafayette.
(e:matthew) and
(e:terry) sitting out front what used to be a giant house and is now a parking lot for the Saturn Club on Linwood.
Another dead squirrel. This one looks like it just fell out of the tree.
Green and Gray is a nice combination. I shudder to think of some of the other combinations you were considering earlier. :)
I myself likes how the house looks color wise, but it isn't my house. I hope you do things victorian style with each place that there is a cut out a different color that way the color changes but the look is the same. Green is an Ok color but I often don't like it on houses not because of the color but when I was growing up you would go down a street and every house or at least a lot of them where all green. Maybe green siding was the cheepest or something back then. In any event it is going to be a lot of work and I wish you luck and safety with it.
looks nice!
thong? Loincloth?
I beats ruining more clothes. I figure I will have to do something else for painting outside, right? lol
I too paint naked Paul.
Which is why Jim has had me repaint the kitchen 8 times since we moved in.
sexy men painting out the window!!!!!!!!!!! woooooooooooo!!!!!!! i like the color.