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09/11/2011 00:25 #55137

Welcome to outerspace
Category: dancing
The location is awesome. There are three stories of dancefloors. One in giant theater with a massive vinyl dance floor. It is so perfectly slippery. Then they have an outdoor stage.

Sadly, although I am dancing I am wildly preoccupied with several other issues. Sometimes I wish I had the constitution to be a heroin junkie so I could just escape.

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metalpeter - 09/11/11 09:03
@(e:tinypliny) and at (e:Paul) also I guess you don't want that drug all you need to relax from what I have Heard is a nicely cooked Stake and a beer.... Or if that doesn't work that Japanese women from that party book....
tinypliny - 09/11/11 02:22
Heroin junkies find it hard to reverse engineer anything.
tinypliny - 09/11/11 00:39
You worry too much...


... says someone who is having massive panic attacks about everything right now. And who is eating caramelized roasted pears loaded with mascarpone!

09/10/2011 16:56 #55131

Harold's on Allen - Going out if business?
Category: allentown
I wonder what happened. Even more so I winder what will go there. I hope another restaurant. I love having restaurants close to work and home.

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tinypliny - 09/10/11 20:03
Maybe you should do a photographic series on the peculiarities of period furniture in erstwhile Buffalo.
matthew - 09/10/11 19:43
This makes me sad. I bought a lot of stuff from Harold. Unlike most antique stores in allentown, his stuff was actually affordable to most people who live in the city. I went to an antique dealer on Elmwood and Allen and there was nothing in the shop that cost less than $2,000. I asked him how he managed to stay open, he replied that 90% of his business is from selling pieces online. Local business? Harold curiosities shopped was one of the old style antique shops before the age of antique roadshow and eBay. You could go there and find actual antique pieces of furniture that were made and/or owned originally in Buffalo. Ask all the new antique shops on Hertle Ave where their stuff comes from, the answer is all over the county , from eBay. Harold could actually tell you where every piece he sold came from. Not just whether it was from Buffalo or East Aurora, he could tell you what family commissioned the piece to be made and who owned it up to the year it was sold off. You cant get that info from online shopping. I have a 1922 Mersman table that I bought from Harold for $175. he told me it was originally a piece from the Williams and Pratt Mansion (now know as the Butler Mansion at Delaware & North ( I didn't believe him until he showed me a photograph.)) and it means more to me than other piece of furniture I own. Good luck, Harold.
tinypliny - 09/10/11 19:22
Or is that Cafe 56? I forgot. I also forgot the name of the mediterranean place. Fickle is my memory. Hummus plate? Pita pit? what was it... it has a branch elsewhere on elmwood too. Damn it. I just can't remember!!!
tinypliny - 09/10/11 19:20
Oh lol, no wonder there are chairs in the window. I thought they had stacked their restaurant chairs there for sale. Speaking of restaurants on Allen, has anyone tried the new place that replace the disastrous Mediterranean place next to Cafe 65?
heidi - 09/10/11 18:37
It was an antique shop. Yeah, more restaurants! :-)
tinypliny - 09/10/11 17:48
Where was this place? I don't even remember seeing it. What did it serve?

09/10/2011 16:29 #55130

DJs from Outerspace
Category: dancing
I am so exited to go dancing close to home in a large space tonight

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tinypliny - 09/10/11 16:44
Have fun. :) Chant some regression and statistical analyses formulas at the stage for me!

09/09/2011 17:28 #55123

$200 Later
Category: pets
The vet spent an hour picking wood chips out of the tortoises butt. An xray made apparent the woodchips ate impacted throughout the entire intestines.

Now we just have to wait and see if the cavity created by the removal if some chips will let the other chips out. If not they are going to have to try tubes which sounds very expensive. Poor Guy.

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tinypliny - 09/10/11 17:51
Fascinating, I never knew the shell was part of their spinal column.

09/09/2011 16:04 #55122

Even through a beach blanket
Category: yuk
The reading selection at the vet has a
lot of info about worms.

For hookworms it says,

People most often get infected when they are lying on the ground at the beach and the larvae penetrate the skin. Yes, the larvae can penetrate through a beach blanket



For tapeworms of type Echinococcus multilocularos

Treat these tapeworm infections aggressively in pets, because if humans get infected, approximately half die.



Call me cruel, but if my pet had those I would definately consider wrapping it in a plastic bag and throwing it out.

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tinypliny - 09/10/11 17:54
I shudder at the thought of people using ringworms for crohns alternative treatment. Somehow the thought of something alive literally sucking my blood out and suppressing my local immune system seems really scary to me. I realize it seems like a good idea to quell the local hyperactive inflammatory state in autoimmune intestinal disease but I question if anyone has looked at the tradeoff of having an active parasitic infestation on the general health of these "ringworm recipients".