If you decide to enjoy your lunch from Washington Market on their patio you will be enchated with the sounds of serious construction going on right next to you at the Ellicott Commons.
This part of Downtown has soooo much potential to be a contempoary, young, cool place. Here’s hoping that once the commons are up and running, we’ll see the infamous Genesee block next to it developed.

*Planned image courtesy BuffaloRising

Large, inflatable rats can only delay 285 Delaware so long. The mix of unionized and non-unionized workers have put up a couple stories of steel on this 5 story building that will be mostly occupied by M&T.

Stopped by the Arena for most of training camp today. The center ice has the new logo, the electronic ribbon board has the new logos, and all the players had the gloves, socks, shorts, and helmets for the new logo. Other than that there wasn’t much to report on..
*Jim Corsi brought in some Italian goalies to play. They’ll be at camp but aren’t part of the organization
*MSG’s Kevin Sylvester always seemed like a charming, nice, young man on TV…he’s a blue collar foul mouth off the screen.
*Extremely uneventful training camp. As WGR’s Brad Ritter said during the final scrimmage…”I’m basically here to report if someone breaks their leg”. No legs were broken.

Is it wrong that I really don’t care that Jack Davis is a millionaire and that I think Tom Reynolds just increased his douchebaggery level with that stupid commerical?

This is from Sabrefans.com since Sabres.com has since taken off the whole jersey countdown thingy.

Grrrr. The jersey numbers on the upper right side? Wtf?

It’s kinda ironic that the only physically appealing aspect of UB Amherst campus are ruins from Downtown Buffalo that were replaced with a surface lot.

That is all.

Pretty catchy headline, huh?
Okay, this news story sounds like the makings of a sweet indie film…

“A stray bullet from an upstairs room wounded a Buffalo man Sunday morning while he was using the toilet in the Buffalo Tourist Lodge, 1159 Main St., police said.
Walter Her, 68, who had been living at the hotel for several months, was treated in the intensive care trauma unit of Erie County Medical Center for a wound to the lower left side of his back.

His condition was unavailable late Sunday, but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

“Two guys and a girl were upstairs partying, and they say they found a gun in the room when they checked in. One of the three fired the gun, which went through the floor, through the ceiling, through the bathroom wall and hit the guy,” said Detective Sgt. Tom Donovan of the Central Police District.

The three were arrested, and police recovered a High Point .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol. Police said that the girl was 16 years old and that the two men had consensual sex with her.

“She was a willing participant in the [statutory] rape,” said Donovan. “The two men said they met her Saturday night at a bar on Fillmore. . . . They said they didn’t realize she was underage because they were carded to get into the bar.”

Donovan said police do not believe their story about finding the gun in their room and believe one them brought the gun there and accidentally fired it.

John E. Kidd, 23, of Louisiana Street; Michael R. Morris II, 22, of Buffalo; and the 16-year-old girl, whose identity was withheld, were each charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of assault.

The two men also were charged with statutory rape and endangering the welfare of a child.

The shooting took place at about 4:30 a.m., but Her didn’t realize he was wounded at the time, police said. He went to bed and, at about 7 a.m., discovered that he had been shot. He walked to the hotel’s front office and was taken to ECMC.”

….the best part is that the guy didn’t even realize he was shot till two and a half hours later.

Buffalo has never ceased to keep me entertained.

I’ll let Pundit critique it but I’ll just say that today’s MKG column was really, really bizarre. I stopped reading her column half a year ago so I don’t know if its that I forgot how terrible a writer she was or that this column was particularly wierd…

“Last week, I saw a picture of a SWAT team hunting for outlaw Ralph Phillips.
Fierce, heavily armed men clad in camo were searching a car.
And I thought: “How do we get personnel like that in Buffalo?”
I want guys with camo and guns in front of my house. I want roadblocks and helicopters.”

The topic is good, but the commentary is….yeeeah.

You know, I was mentally prepared to get our asses kicked but instead we just had to be teased by almost three quarters of looking like a win was in the bag. Typical Buffalo style loss.

Being from here does a number on the blood pressure.

*Photo courtesy Yahoo Sports

Here’s a set on flickr from when the Concorde came to Buffalo in 1986. w00t.