I love Buffalo, NY - Ask me anything!

[CanuckAmok]

It's scorchingly hot an humid here on Vancouver Island, and it's making me think of the weather in Buffalo, last time I was there.

Buffalo is a great city, and everyone's always slaggin' it.

Buffalo has a fantastic arts and jazz scene, some very creative late-night television (WKBW's "Off-Beat Cinema", which I can still get on satellite), some very good restaurants, Elmwood Avenue, The Continental Club, Mighty Taco, and Irv Weinstein.

So what's not to like?!

[dolo amber]

1. It's scorchingly hot...in CANADA??!

Fuck sake man, come on down here to Na'th Cahlina...you'll burst right into flames. :P

[CanuckAmok]

4. It was' like. 110 today*

*I'm converting that to fareinheit for you Imperialists.

It was so hot, the little adhesive convex wideview mirror on my sideview mirror melted off. There's a sad smear of adhesive running down the mirror where the little one was.

[dolo amber]

5. Oh yeah?

Well, it was like...1800 degrees here today. I went outside to feed the pond fish and my bones disintegrated. I'm typing this using what remaining muscles I have that didn't turn to ash and a long pointy stick.

:P

[CanuckAmok]

8. Luxury!

When I was a lad, we didn't have remaining muscle tissue OR pointed sticks. We had to exist in a limbo-like state, in which there was no matter or energy.

But try telling that to the youth of today, and they don't believe you...


PS--as IF your bones would ignite before the wooden stick--do you think I'm some sort of a moran?

[dolo amber]

9. Argh!!

Damn you and your Canadian logic!!

*shakes fist* x(

No fair, you get the intellect AND the mooses...Who do I complain to?! :P

[HEyHEY]

2. FUCK it is hot eh?

I'm outside of Penticton at 6,500 feet I swear to god at that altitude the thermostat said 35.... I wouldn't want to be in the Valley.

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. I was there for the 4th of July

to see the Goo Goo Dolls and Ani DiFranco and it POURED rain, but I would love to visit again. It does seem like a very nice little city. It was much prettier than I expected. Its economy has taken a huge hit in the last several years and I expected it to look more .... depressed.

[CanuckAmok]

6. It's rough around the edges...

It has ben devastated by hit after hit.

But the downtown is really cool, and the universities (SUNY and UB) are very condusive to creativity and fun.

Some of the architecture is inredible. As I understand it, the condemned Buffalo Main Rail Terminal is a hot-spot for urban spelunkers...and it's one of the last great examples of art-deco highrise left standing. Unfortunately, years of neglect, and frost in the foundations, has ensured the building is too unsafe to ever re-open to the public.

Check out the pics:

http://www.buffalohistoryworks.com/terminal/death/death.html

[huckleberry]

7. I love Buffalo too!

I'm going there next weekend. I love the Seneca Niagara Casino and the Niagara Falls outlet mall!