Buffalo Business Journal reported that the NFTA is spending 36 million to upgrade all their rail cars by 2010.
I’ve been asking myself how they’ve managed to still let the ol’ brown/orange/yellow color scheme remain while using the blue and red mostly. This year they finally changed all the subway station signs to fit the new colors but way too many of the old rail cars remain. Now we can no longer have eyesores as subway cars. Whoop whoop.

Talking to my friend on instant messanger, I inform him that there is an MC battle going on Public Access TV (this is 230 am). What comes next is my Ukranian friend dropping rhymes about Buffalo…

“yo son go to the door before i run to yo crib and throw all your beef on weck on the floor”
“ill take it nice and slow with your girl like the buffalo metroooooo”
“IM ILL”
“ILL LIKE OUR ECONOMY”
“im big in buffalo like unions fellas guts yoooo”
“big like dem inflatable rats”
“ill have you whole fam scared like suburbinites visiting tha citay”
“YO GIRL WAS TASTY IN BED LIKE SALSARITTTAAAAAASSSSSSSSS”
“i run the city like scalpers on the streets at a bisions game”
“YOU FUCKING WITH ME IS A BAD IDEA LIKE BEING A PIZZA DELIVERY MAN IN B-LO”

and my favorite…

“Ill demolish you like a Frank Lloyd Wright office building”

Here’s a bunch of ads with the Simpsons for “CC Lemon”. A Japanese beverage.
Click on the picture of Homer Simpson at the ballpark and watch the video

For some reason its been in a bunch of places. Trojan Condom ads (circa late 90s) Vh1’s “I love the 90’s” (story about Marge Schott) and Bill Nye the Science Guy.

More than most projects in Buffalo, this one has been going muyyyy rapido! Seven out of the eight stories of steel beams are up but a lot of the purchased lot is still pretty vacant. This buiding despite not being very tall-will definitley define the landscape on this side of downtown for many years to come. And City Hall of course makes for a perfect backdrop to it.

Walked by Granite Works for the 1st time since early April. Its looking purdy good. Now they have put up banners for availible apartments and retail space. Also in the project is one more building connected to the 3 visible followed by a seperate apartment with a similar architectural style to the Mansion on Delaware.
I’m telling you, this part of Downtown is gonna be somethin. With Allentown, the Medical Campus, Granite Works, and then the Theatre District…mmmm its gonna be a much more vibrant and happenin place. Something you couldn’t have even dreamed of 20 years ago.

Look! Water is coming back! They started to fill ‘er up today and the construction workers gave me a wierd look for being so facinated with it.

And the Aud was open today, I’m assuming the environmental study has begun. I was so damn tempted to go inside but my fear of being locked in with a dead cell phone scared me too much

So today I was taking a stroll around the cobblestone district to look at the Savarino HQ’s and of course to cross the border into the “Soverign Nation of the Seneca Nation” (Buffalo Creek Territory) and I had to stop.
Seneca Nation po-po rolled up.
Ummmm…whaaa?
Yes, the Seneca Nation has a police force patrolling the area. I was confused as to who I was and where I was. I couldn’t even take a picture I was so shocked. But then I got myself together and smelled the cheerios coming from the General Mills plant.
I AM still in Buffalo…at least for now.

Adelphia announced that all of the Eastern Conference games between the Sabres and Hurricanes will be on Adelphia’s classic package. Channel 71. Holla.

Games 3 and 4 will also be on CBC (better coverage than OLN + Don Cherry)

Suburbanites who trash talk downtown to death.

Look…
-Downtown is not a death sentence.
-I have never been close to being mugged, assulted, or killed downtown. East side of Downtown, West Side of Downtown, Cobblestone, PERRY PROJECTS. NOWHERE. NEVER.
-The subway is not filled with black men whose only goal in life is to rape and/or murder. Perfectly safe system.
-Downtown is NOT ugly. Beautiful architecture all over mixed in with some hideous buildings.

Notice that the ones who trash talk our downtown to death are the ones who have almost never been there. Sorry we can’t be a downtown that only has wealthy white families with upscale shopping all over. I’ll be the first person to tell you the many things wrong with Buffalo, but i’ll be the last to trash talk it with lies and misperceptions

AUGH!