Tag Archives: 'buffalo'

• Sharks

  I’m going to give it a chance tonight. That is, western hockey. Growing up in Buffalo and going to school in Syracuse, I have my obvious biases — Sabres and eastern hockey, Big East basketball, AFL football. But I live in the bay area, and I’d love to watch more hockey. Whenever the Sabres make [...]

• Buffalo News’ Coverage

  The Buffalo News is liveblogging the plane crash story, including links to Flickr photos, and is compiling the list of confirmed victims. UPDATE — Footage from last night…

• Plane Crashes In My Hometown

  The location marker on the lower left is the approximate location of the plane crash in Clarence Center, and the marker on the upper-right is where I worked over the summers and during winter breaks while a student in Syracuse (as an intern for the Town Engineer)… The marker on the far left below is [...]

• The Beer of Buffalo

  Long-time readers of this blog know that when I travel, I try to drink locally. And long-time readers love to hear about it. When I ventured east for Thanksgiving, it was the first time I set foot in my parents’ house in nearly six years (since mid-January 2003). I was still a graduate student at [...]

• Buffalo Road Trip

  I spent some time planning a road trip around the Buffalo region a few weeks ago, but now that I think about it, it is probably impossible (or equally foolish). Image: Google First, it takes roughly three hours of driving, assuming no traffic on Thanksgiving weekend. Considering that we actually enjoy the stops, that is [...]

• Here, There

  I will be in Buffalo for four nights this week. The forecast there… And the forecast here (in California)… I’ll pack a sweater; maybe two.

• Buffalo Takes A Seat

  The best possible scenario resulting from the appointment (and confirmation) of Hillary Rodham Clinton as President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State, aside from the calm steady hand at the wheel of foreign policy, is the possibility for the ascension of a Buffalo politician to fill Clinton’s Senate seat. The idea conjures up faded memories of [...]

• Philly Analogy Redux

  I continue to take a beating (rhetorical, of course) over my comments on Philly fans and subsequent Philadelphia analogy. From an email… So let me guess. According to your analogy, Buffalo is the hottest girl in the school? Your [sic] an idiot. Buffalo sucks. No, Buffalo is not the hottest girl in the school. Buffalo [...]

• Bills’ Throwbacks

  I am going to repeat this. Actually, I am going to continue to repeat it until something is done about it, which by my estimation, will be sometime soon. The Buffalo Bills must wear their alternate throwback uniforms for every game. They simply are the best uniforms in the league (and they only wear them [...]

• I am from Buffalo

  With the Buffalo Bills still undefeated, here is one of those oft-despised list posts, this one celebrating the people of the City of Good Neighbors… I call them chicken wings. I drink Labatt Blue. Jack Kemp is a quarterback, not a VP candidate. I eat Mighty Taco, not Taco Bell. It’s snow, I don’t freak [...]

• Sabres-Senators 2006

  If you like hockey — and you should, unless you’re a pissant from Philadelphia* — then you will truly enjoy highlights from one of the greatest hockey games in recent history, the first game of the Sabres-Senators second-round playoff series two years ago (watch the clock)… * In that case, you’d be a Flyers fan; [...]

• The Savages

  This movie pairs together probably the two best (and for a long time, the most underrated) character actors of our generation — Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney (who continues to make every character she plays memorable). However, this script is not that great. The film takes place in Buffalo, and was shot there, so [...]

• In the News

  - I live in a new urbanist neighborhood in the bay area, so I am biased on the subject, but it seems that my hometown (and the surrounding Buffalo region) is having a difficult time accepting the concept of walkable communities, which is a shame. – Hillary Clinton won California — somewhat handily — in [...]

• Reynolds Wrapped

  The congressman representing my hometown — Tom Reynolds — is retiring. His seat was once held* by former Buffalo Bills quarterback and vice-presidential nominee Jack Kemp. I do not share the enthusiasm of Talking Points Memo, however, that this seat will somehow become a “swing state” in this coming election. The issue is not necessarily [...]

• Buffalonely

  Bill Simmons… Over the past 40-plus years, no sports city has had it rougher than Buffalo. It doesn’t have a baseball team. Its NBA team fled west to become the Clippers — a double whammy. Its greatest and most famous athlete is O.J. Simpson. It has suffered three of the toughest losses ever, all of [...]

• The Cleveland Indians Expansion Curse

  The Cleveland Indians had a chance at two World Series titles in the mid nineties, in 1995 against the Atlanta Braves, the team of the decade, and then two years later against the Florida Marlins, in only the Marlins’ fifth season of existence. The Indians lost to the Marlins in seven games, in what has [...]

• In the News… Rove.

  - The executives of the company that nearly leveled the city of Buffalo (and bankrupted the Buffalo Sabres hockey team) are finally headed to prison. – Karl Rove, the GOP genius, “leaves a lame-duck president suffering from low approval ratings, an unpopular war in Iraq and public rejection in the 2006 elections.“ – And even [...]

• Philadelphia, My Second Home

  Being all but displaced from my hometown, Buffalo (well, actually, a suburb northeast of Buffalo), my second home has become Philadelphia. I had spent time there courting my future wife after college before moving to California. My wife’s family is nearby, just over the border in New Jersey, and her sister lives in Center City [...]

• Morning Politoon

  Being a fan of Tim Russert (and of his Buffalo roots), this Luckovich cartoon admittedly stings a bit, but it may be true… Image: Washington Post

• Hometown Hero

  You know you’ve done well in life when you are the star witness in the biggest political trial in decades. Tim Russert, Buffalo son, you have made us proud. Let’s go Sabres.

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