Archive for March, 2006

Don’t hate on the suburbs, Buffalo

March 29, 2006 at 8:17 pm by Derek

Hate is most often brought on by jealousy, and it’s obviously the driving force behind many of the comments on Buffalo Rising’s article on the newly proposed “Urban Mirage” in Amherst. The city vs. suburbs debate rears it’s ugly head yet again. Too many city dwellers refuse to believe that life should exist [...]

Our Marriage

March 28, 2006 at 9:09 am by Amanda

In a little less than two months, Derek and I will be Married for 3 years. We always talk about how strange it is that it has been such a short time. We feel like we’re known each other forever. We even have replaced, in many instances, each other for old girl/boyfriends! [...]

Breakerbox Brings It Back To Life

March 25, 2006 at 3:44 pm by Derek

Here’s a shot of Breakerbox from the Bring It Back To Life concert at Nietzsche’s last night. They rocked as always!

Big round of applause to all the bands that were part of the show last night! The Feast sounded great… just a bit too loud for a room the size of Nietzsche’s. [...]

Now For Something Completely Different….

March 25, 2006 at 12:12 pm by Amanda

Or maybe not….hope Lauren doesn’t mind I’m using this…..
“Mulder?”
“Yes, Scully?”
“Why is there a pyramid of styrofoam cups on my desk?”
“Well, I got bored drinking coffee and doing paperwork so I decided to take a break.”
“Mulder, how much coffee did you drink? This pyramid is 10 cups high!”
“Well, most of the cups weren’t used.”
“Well, I [...]

Moving too fast?

March 25, 2006 at 10:13 am by Derek

Craig wonders if the plans for demolishing the Skyway are wider-reaching than most people think.
“Skyway” is local shorthand for the Skyway bridge. But when the I-190 was built in the 1950s, Skyway was the term used to describe the entire portion of the Niagara Thruway that was elevated above street-level — approximately that part [...]

New CTRC Board Members

March 24, 2006 at 9:34 am by Derek

From BuffaloCentralTerminal.org…
The Central Terminal Restoration Corporation would like to announce the election of two new board members, Kate Resetarits and Mark Lewandowski.
Kate is new to working with the CTRC, but brings a lot of marketing and local construction contracting experience with her. Kate is very enthusiastic about the building and the project, and we are [...]

Pataki flushes our toll money down the canal

March 23, 2006 at 10:47 am by Derek

So while Buffalonians daily pay $0.75 – $1.50 to the Thruway Authority to take the 190 to get to their jobs in Buffalo, Big George decided to give $10 million of that away so that boaters on the canal don’t have to pay lock fees. Great thinking, George. Way to live up to [...]

Oh my God, they killed Chef! YOU BASTARDS!!

March 22, 2006 at 10:45 pm by Derek

So Chef runs away to join a “Super Adventure Club” which brainwashes him into wanting to have sex with children. In true South Park style, they not only parody the issue at hand, but also themselves by making it hilariously obvious that they are cutting and pasting audio clips from previous episodes to do [...]

On the road again

March 22, 2006 at 7:26 pm by Derek

The good news: the part for my Eclipse came in and I got it back from the garage today.
The bad news: $988.95

Tonight: Chef Stew

March 22, 2006 at 11:50 am by Derek

You had to expect that we hadn’t heard the end of the Issac Hayes incident. Tonight, Trey Parker and Matt Stone strike back:
Hayes, also a Scientologist, is the subject of The Return of Chef!, a hastily assembled 10th-season premiere airing tonight (Comedy Central, 10 ET/PT) and written in response to the actor’s exit.
Details of [...]