When I saw the video footage of Carl Paladino and Joel Giambra uncorking a bottle of champagne nearby the tolls this morning I was reminded that I am indeed living in Buffalo, New York.

this place is priceless.

According to Tickets.com, the cheapest tix availible for tonight’s PRESEASON game are $72.
I know there are some antsy Buffalonians who are dying to see their team again. Even if it means dishing out 72 bones for a game that doesn’t even count.

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.

The designs for the new Park Lane 20 story condo hasn’t even been released and there is already huge opposition.

Will someone tell these people they are living in a fuckin city? It’s quite simple, really. Successful cities in the civilized world build tall buildings…sometimes they’re pretty too!

You can call them NIMBY’s or BANNANA’s all you want, I’m calling them the Development Taliban.

No, its not catchy but it’s an appropriate name.

On Buffalorising today there is a naming contest for the guy on the logo of “Old Home Week” and one commenter proposed this…

“Another very Buffalonian name: Rocco. In any other city, a Rocco would get laughed at. In Buffalo, meanwhile, you could slap it on your business card and most wouldn’t give it a second thought.”

Kinda like how in Buffalo, wearing a brown suit is actually acceptable and even kinda stylish *shudder*

Oh and don’t forget “Zubaz” pants too.

And according to the BuffaloNews we can add having a policeman get arrested four times before losing his job.

…anyone else have some “only in buffalo” observations?

“ronmoss4mayor.org”

Okay if this were ANY other city in America I’d be sure this guy was just kidding…but I think he might be for real. Is he? Seriously, I need to know cuz if he is i’m on the next bus out of town.

Waiting for my friend to meet me downtown, I took a nice little stroll around downtown but of course-since its a weekday after 4pm-all the WONDERFUL creatures came out to greet me and here are the encounters…

A disheveled and assumed crack-head from accross the street comes up to me..
CrackHead: “Ayo how you doin man?”
Me: “Um im fine”
CH: “Yo you got change?”
Me: “Nah, I need it to eat tonight”
CH: “Ah cool you gotta eat thats cool
(shakes my hand)
CH: (Inaudible)
Me: “what?”
CH: (Inaudible)
Me: “what?”
CH: (Inaudible)
Me: “what?”
CH (pulls out silver chain)” take this man!”
Me: Nah, im good

(he then walked w.me for the next 2min….awkward!)

The next guy saw me on the corner of Chippewa and Pearl
Guy: “Yo what time is it?!?!!”
Me: “Um 635″
Guy: “Aw shiiiit! I gotta get my weed from this dude before its too late!!!!” (runs down Chippewa)

And one more convo that took place between two dudes at Univesity Station…
1: “Yeah you go to ECC? I went to school there for 7 years!”
2: “Pfff thats nothing. Im starting my 14th year studying there.”
1: “Wow, thats a long time, man.”
2: “Yeah, I should be done in 2 years.”

*LaRouchies transforming into a choir and singing German opera outside of Byron Brown’s democratic dinner at Fountain Plaza
*Antoine Thompson shaking hands with a crack head
*David Franzyck shopping at Main Place Mall
*Being offered drugs by a dude even though there were five cop cars behind him
*Two dudes selling chalices and comparing styles

and PS…the hot dog vendors downtown…without a doubt the hottest girls I have EVER seen since moving back to Buffalo

Today I went downtown to look for some jobs (not an easy task in case you haven’t noticed) and I went by Ellicott Square. Since I first layed eyes on the “Downtown Sportscards” store in 2000 it has ALWAYS been closed. Today I finally caught it being open so I went in. Three guys work at the store and they are your most sterotypical old school, blue collar, rather large Buffalonians who decided to discuss how Paris Hilton was destroying America with her whore-like qualities. One of the men was way out of the loop which led to one of my most famous quotes of all time…

“WHAT THE HELL IS A PARIS HILTON!???!”

…I stared as hard as I could at the 1989 Alex Mogilny card in my hand to hold back the laughter.

I’m a sucker for humor relating to sterotypes of different Buffalonians…therefore this amused me to no end…

PS…possibly the nicest looking Buffalo Blog?Possibly.
Apparently the link doesn’t work…not sure why since the html code is correct…well-its on the sidebar: “the716″