Paul's Journal

08/16/2009 20:23 #49552

Delaware park

Shakespeare in the park is jammin. There are so many people.

On another note, The water in Hoyt lake is fucking disgusting.
Normally I would say freaking but seriously the disgustingness really
deserved the upgrade.

There are so many cans and bottles jammed up in the weeds. Who throws
their garbage in the water. I think those people deserve to be tazered.

I wonder if there could be any hope in cleaning it up by making the
water flow better. I mean I have seen lakes in other city parks that
wernt so sick.

tinypliny - 08/28/09 09:14
Have you seen the unkempt Lake Erie near the canalside park (beyond the marina apartments and closer to Porter street) on the west side?

Its very similar and nausea-inducing. Someone should send those pictures to the mayor's office and show them how that portion of the waterfront is being completely ignored.

oda - 08/17/09 20:57
ah, shakespeare in the park... i streaked King Lear last year and got a big round of applause. great fun for all.

metalpeter - 08/17/09 19:45
I think one problem with that lake is that the water kinda just sits there. Yes it was cleaned up years ago so it wasn't as nasty. But I think since the river doesn't really flow much all the crap just piles up somewhere like that one back corner that was all gross.

lilho - 08/17/09 12:59
im all for the tazer.

vincent - 08/16/09 20:48
Not to mention the smell of that body of water. To me honestly I have to wonder why people rave so much about Delaware Park, when the lake smells like garbage dump cesspool. Do they just ignore the fact that it has been like that for years?

08/16/2009 19:28 #49551

Cosmo at walmart

When at walmart in new hampshire, I was fascinated by three things.

1. The prices, we never go to walmart but holy crap shit is cheap -
still I think a lot of it is lesser quality. A good example is that
the Hanes cotton t-shirts we bought at walmart are definately thinner
and more cheaply seamed than the ones we got at target. It's obvious
to the eye.

2. Just how trashy, white trash can get.

3. That this woman with revealing cleavage on the cover of cosmo is
not too revealing to be shown but the word sex and all the article
titles are.

mike - 08/16/09 21:42
haha i thought this was gonna be about a walmart that had a bar that served cosmos

08/14/2009 22:17 #49539

At the ledges in vermont

Damn, this is really lame compared to my previous posts about the ledges, sorry.

We spent the whole day swimming in perfect 80 degree sunshine in nothing other than SPF 60 NOAD sunscreen but there is not one pic.

Sorry (e:mike) the sunscreen was from walmart, can we still be brothers, lol? While I was already there I also bought socks. Its kind of a ridiculous story, I was so hungover the morning we left I only brought the outfit I was wearing and have worn it every day since. Today, I got to change my socks. Luckily, we swam almost everyday so I don't smell that bad. I mean I know I am an outfit repeater but I generally change my socks and underwear.

So back to the ledges? Who goes swimming for the whole day and doesn't bring snacks? Well we did. not sure what I was thinking there - aren't snacks a quintessential part of the whole aquatic experience.

We also met this guy who runs a gay campground in new Hampshire

that is only 4 miles away from our current lame ass campsite in Vermont. He said they have horses. Sadly, we had prepaid for the cluster camp spot because we didn't know where else to go. I would like to never camp at fort dummer again. Maybe we can revisit that new hampshire place someday.

If you are ever in Brattleboro, Vermont eat at the top of the hill BBQ stand. It's pretty delicious and priceworthy.

Finally a boring picture. This car in the parking lot at the ledges was seriously dinged up. I guess the owner thought bandaids would help.

tinypliny - 08/28/09 09:14
Hahaha... that is hilarious!

08/13/2009 18:56 #49527

Indoor honey farm

I would really like to have a fancy indoor honey farm like this one.
It's really fun to watch.

lilho - 08/14/09 15:17
me too as long AS someone else harvests the honey and makes damn sure the bees don't get out.

dimartiste - 08/14/09 14:09
That is soo cool! Please tell me that you traveled to this special place?! This is not like in your apartment, right?!
Bees are cool to watch, but I do not know how people can actually work with them. One of the books I read has a honey colony on the property. Gail Fraser's books about Lumby. An imaginary community which their own farm is modeled on in Upstate New York.

08/13/2009 13:02 #49522

Sliding down a mountain

Skilift is kinda shaky. At the end you ride down in a sled. How
awesome is that. I wonder why none of our WNY ski resorts add
something like this. You can go really freakin fast.

rory - 08/16/09 07:24
Wooo!! They have one of those in Rotorua in New Zealand. Seriously fun - the one there has some sharp-ish drops that you can get decent air off if you go quick enough.

More places need stuff like this.

lilho - 08/14/09 15:18
that seriously looks like the most fun ever!!! they have those in CO, and i think all the way upstate near canada at the skit resorts there... was there an olympics there once?

dimartiste - 08/14/09 14:10
Buffalo Bobsledding. "Sanka, ya dead yet?"

heidi - 08/13/09 16:08
That is so cool! It's just like the Jamaican luge team's practice area!

mrmike - 08/13/09 13:22
I went on something similar at a resort in Collingwood Ontario, it is an absolute blast. It does make wonder why Holiday Valley hasn't taken the plunge.