Dec - 3rd
The Beer of Buffalo
Posted at 11:19 am | Filed Under Travels
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 Berkeley [...]
Nov - 25th
Buffalo Road Trip
Posted at 9:47 am | Filed Under Travels
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 an easy [...]
Nov - 24th
Here, There
Posted at 12:58 pm | Filed Under 9-to-5 Thoughts, Uncategorized
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.
Nov - 19th
Buffalo Takes A Seat
Posted at 9:42 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
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 [...]
Oct - 15th
Philly Analogy Redux
Posted at 1:58 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
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 is Philadelphia's cousin [...]
Sep - 30th
Bills’ Throwbacks
Posted at 3:50 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
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 twice [...]
Sep - 23rd
I am from Buffalo
Posted at 11:17 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
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 out the second I see [...]
Jul - 28th
Sabres-Senators 2006
Posted at 6:25 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
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; go [...]
Jul - 17th
The Savages
Posted at 1:56 pm | Filed Under Film Retrospective
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 [...]
May - 30th
In the News
Posted at 9:25 am | Filed Under 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 the [...]
Mar - 20th
Reynolds Wrapped
Posted at 8:59 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
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 voter [...]
Dec - 5th
Buffalonely
Posted at 10:09 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
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 which [...]
Oct - 16th
The Cleveland Indians Expansion Curse
Posted at 8:24 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
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 [...]
Aug - 14th
In the News… Rove.
Posted at 7:52 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
- 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 worse, "it [...]
Apr - 27th
Philadelphia, My Second Home
Posted at 9:55 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
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 [...]
Feb - 12th
Morning Politoon
Posted at 10:31 am | Filed Under Politoons
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
Feb - 7th
Hometown Hero
Posted at 2:52 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
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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