So while (e:libertad) was at work I decided to go for a walk. I love walks on fall days like these. It really is my favorite time of year I think. ANywho, I usually walk around like Elmwood or something but decided to head towards downtown today instead cuz I never really walk around downtown, well i mean I have walked around many parts of downtown many times but id on't know not super recently and not just for the sake of walking around. SO i headed down Delaware and walked to city hall and I never read all the placards and stuff by the Mckinley monument (oddly enough i was wearing a shirt that has the lion that is on the side of that building on delaware that is based on the lions there). ANywho there was few wedidngs of people taking pics at city hall and that was neat to see.
OH i almost forgot while walking by the Statler some people came up to me and asked for directions to the TOwn Ballroom AND I WAS ACTUALLY ABLE TO PROVIDE THEM! As many of you konw I am terrible with directions , like i can get around but cannot explain it to others. OK really from Statler to TOwn Ballroom is really simple but it was still something.
ANywho then after City Hall i walked down court and then down main street towards downtown more and then around and on washington and stuff and just looked around. It is neat seeing like all the old like painted on names on buildings , like how many different things these buildings have been and many them sadly are now nothing. That leads me to the next thing, DOWNTOWN IS DEAD on the weekends. I know this, but it always shocks me a little. EVen the Tim Hortons in the LIberty BUilding is closed on Saturdays, when your downtown can't support 1 Tim HOrtons that is really sad, though to be honest the Dunkin DOnuts on CHippewa and Main Street was open so I guess there was that but still it seemed sad.
So then I was walking down Main Street back to Dave's and my favorite place in buffalo for some odd reason has always been the block of main street between Goodell and Tupperi think . SO i dawdled around there and then walked over to the CYclorama building which I have also always loved and took a picture of it to put in my phone. Then I sat on a rather comfy bench on the corner of Main and Goodell and talked to (e:mk) for a while about the sabres game she was attending tonight and what not. So then I took a peak into St.Louis church which is right there and that is where (e:Mk) is having her wedding and it was really pretty. Mass was going on so I couldn't really walk aroudn it but it looked really pretty.
Then I continued on my way down Main Street and got to the Scientologist Headquarter Building where some lady looked like she was getting brainwashed to join so I stood outside the windown and tried to mouth to her "DONT DO IT" but she looked at me like i was crazy and I"m just lady you the crazy one joining that freakin Tom Cruise cult! SO i walked on before they came out and murdered me to cleanse themselves of their alien toxins or whatever crazy thing they are doing at the moment. I have always wanted to go in and really see what it is like but i am so gullible and would definitely be pulled in for sure without a doubt!
So i continued on my walk down Main Street to Allen , then down to Elmwood and back up west ferry to Dave's apartment. Oh i forgot while walking down Main STreet I saw the people I gave the directions too again and they said they had found the Town Ballroom so I felt succesful!
Oh and I also forgot, like i was thiking while walking by the Hyatt like wow if you are a visitor to the B-lo and you walk out of that hotel onto Main Street it is so deserted and not welcoming and from the looks of things you prolly may as well be in Kabul! They should prolly work on that.
ALl in all it was an awesome walk and I am glad I did it and would liek to do it again. I am sure noone has read this far cuz this is like my journals that ramble on of old but maybe a little shorter!!
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09/25/2010 17:44 #52831
Walking Downtown/Saving Scientologists?09/16/2010 17:57 #52758
Buying MusicSo i haven't bought much recently or ever really from ITUnes, but when i do it is always just like the top song of the moment, but I had a 15 dollar gift card so I decided to browse around and here is what I came up with and bought:
Jai Ho from Slumdog MIllionaire
Club Can't Handle Me by Flo Rida
Don't Stop Believing and Bust Your Windows from Glee
Hey Jude from Across the Universe
Take It Off Kei$ha
Mad World from Donnie Darko
Party In the USA by Miley Cyrus
Eye of the Tiger
I dreamed a dream by susan boyle
Million DOllar Bill by Whitney Houston
We No Speak Americano by Yolanda be Cool
Sorta a mix but really all movie or current hit related I suppose. I still have 5 dollars think i'll save it for now.
Jai Ho from Slumdog MIllionaire
Club Can't Handle Me by Flo Rida
Don't Stop Believing and Bust Your Windows from Glee
Hey Jude from Across the Universe
Take It Off Kei$ha
Mad World from Donnie Darko
Party In the USA by Miley Cyrus
Eye of the Tiger
I dreamed a dream by susan boyle
Million DOllar Bill by Whitney Houston
We No Speak Americano by Yolanda be Cool
Sorta a mix but really all movie or current hit related I suppose. I still have 5 dollars think i'll save it for now.
tinypliny - 09/16/10 19:03
Well??? How is the Whitney Houston song??? How is it?? Does it compare to her Queen of the Night era songs?
Well??? How is the Whitney Houston song??? How is it?? Does it compare to her Queen of the Night era songs?
09/11/2010 21:10 #52715
Karen Walker and meThis is something that if Paul heard it I thought he would think I would say it (if that makes sense) like when i heard it it was something that not i thought oh that is me per se but oh paul would think that was me....
on Will and Grace , Karen (who is hilar) said "you know what else is incredibly sad. poor people with big dreams. Actually that's not so much sad as it is incredibly funny"
on Will and Grace , Karen (who is hilar) said "you know what else is incredibly sad. poor people with big dreams. Actually that's not so much sad as it is incredibly funny"
paul - 09/12/10 09:43
Yes, I would believe you said it based on the glass house tale.
Yes, I would believe you said it based on the glass house tale.
08/30/2010 14:34 #52611
B-DAY PARTYIf you are out and about tonight we will be at Cathode for big a** drink night tonihgt around 930 to celebrate my bday, stop by and have a mason jar full of liquor!
09/01/2010 22:31 #52631
Cable TeaseSo we had to get a box in order to keep the Oxygen and Travel channel and like 2 other ones. It is free and everything but for Time Warner for some reason you needed it for those two channels. Well when we hooked it up all of a sudden we had like 400 channels and I was in heaven. Though I did find I still almost watched the same shows on the reg 60 or so channels we get but I think in time I would have watched more. Also like with so many channels like nothing seems good enough cuz I expect like the best thing ever to be on all the time cuz there are so many options.
Anywho that isn't the point, so it obviously was some type of mistake I thought and I figured they'd catch it evntually but I would enjoy it while I can. We had HBO for like 10 years by accident, it was super weird and like still on a channel that was not HBO for the people who actually had HBO, anywho I got home from work today and all the channels were taen away. We are back down to like 70. : ( . I"m not sure if like maybe they just give you 5 free days or something or if it was amistake but either way it is over and I miss it already!
Anywho that isn't the point, so it obviously was some type of mistake I thought and I figured they'd catch it evntually but I would enjoy it while I can. We had HBO for like 10 years by accident, it was super weird and like still on a channel that was not HBO for the people who actually had HBO, anywho I got home from work today and all the channels were taen away. We are back down to like 70. : ( . I"m not sure if like maybe they just give you 5 free days or something or if it was amistake but either way it is over and I miss it already!
metalpeter - 09/02/10 17:33
Just wanted to add that with the BOX you get some On Demand Channels and those are good, then you also get the on demand Channel of any pay station you order for free. It is possible you got a free preview of some kind, hard to know.......
Just wanted to add that with the BOX you get some On Demand Channels and those are good, then you also get the on demand Channel of any pay station you order for free. It is possible you got a free preview of some kind, hard to know.......
paul - 09/02/10 09:56
How will you survive. Imagine if you had a DVR you could have recorded a ton of stuff to watch when it was over.
How will you survive. Imagine if you had a DVR you could have recorded a ton of stuff to watch when it was over.
hahah - you made a mundane walk hilarious.
Here is the thing with downtown.
Different Cities have different Downtowns.
Our downtown is really just a place for business and work during the week and some cities I have heard are like that.
Yes the Chip Strip is part of downtown but most people call it the chip strip or some form of that.
Then you the Theatre District and yes those two areas kinda overlap. But again this is thought of its own area.
Then you have multiple areas called the waterfront.
Now what people are trying to do is to get the
cobblestone district and waterfront area all connected and that might happen.
But that still leaves that big middle area of Downtown that isn't hoping...
Now some people say no traffic on main killed the mall and the courtyard mall and that isn't true at all. Now the point of putting the train in well that does have marate but those are two different issues......
1. Elmwood, Delaware, Niagara and what ever that st. past main is that goes down to the Stadium all lead down town........
2. The Train
a. The 8 main ran bad and didn't hold a lot of people
b. The train changed that and made going from one part of the city to another much better
c. What this did was bring a lot of school kids to the mall
d. Lets face it a lot of those kids where black
e. If you are working all day and then at the end of the day do you really want to shop where there are kids hanging out and being nosey (hey kids do that), you don't even want to go shopping with your own kids. Now add in that many of them are black and you see why the mail failed
f. At the same you have this mall called the galleria and even though AM&A's or what ever they where called said they wouldn't move they did anyways.
g. AT one point there where stores at both the Galleria and thruway mall but it after time lost and closed
H. The Galleria didn't want city people, or people who couldn't drive at their mall or maybe just not blacks so they didn't let the buses onto the property
I. So those people shopped at the downtown mall.
j. There are been movement out to "The Burbs" for a long time. If you lived out there but worked here would you shop right after work or would you rather go to some big mall or shopping center on your way home? Do you want Drinks first?
k. I think some of the downtown shoppers turned into down town happy hours and then if they want to shop they can do it where they live......
WEll that is my theory just from living through it............
I clearly meant that your journals were the highlight of my life...not laugh...but they do make me laugh..........
I read that far because your rambling journals are one of the highlights of my laugh. They make me think of the very early days of (e:strip) when you couldn't make paragraphs and it was just one giant paragraph. Also, I don't really know where the Towne Ballroom is, and that's sad. So you should tell me where it is. Is it near your Grandma's???