Saturday, September 30, 2006

For those of you that missed it, The Top 10 List on David Lettermen recently had segment on the gay former governor of New Jersey James McGreevey. The Top 10 Chapter Titles in his new book. It was LOL funny. Check it out below!

http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/top_ten/
Here's latino hotties, Kenny and Leonardo hanging at Marcella's after the shows.
They moved the last drag show indoors because of the cold. Here's Rachael doing a drag impersonation from Mommy Dearest.
It's nice to see the gay boys all dressed up!
Dick & Dakota enjoy the street party with their friend Bob.
The Buffalo Jills cheerleaders also did a show. That gave the straight guys something to look at!
A juggler entertains the crowd in front of Shea's Theater.
Hot little Donnie bartends out on Main Street.
Some trick photography - drag in motion! F'Ya Valentino works the stage.
Buffalo held it's 25th annual Curtain Up celebration last night. Main Street was jam packed with live bands and shows. It was nice to see hundreds of straight people getting into the drag shows and later dancing in the club. Here, Fantasee Island and her boys do a bit for the very large outdoor crowd.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

What a great fall day here in Buffalo, it was sunny and 77 here, but there goes the sun.
While at dinner I found out my dad will be inducted into the Western New York Softball Hall of Fame. How cool is that? He will be one of 12 people awarded with a dinner in November. He deserves it, at age 64 he can still strike out 18 year guys with his fast pitch.
I went to mom and dad's for dinner today and my mom had a surprise for me. She recently purchased a new lap top and decided to donate her old one to a worthwhile charity, ME! There she is, my new HP Pavilion ze4300.

Saturday, September 23, 2006

Crews have just started working on this building on Main Street near the new Artspace Project just past the medical campus. This area is going to be the next hot space for development in the city. The brand new Delta Sonic is almost right next door to this.
OK, Jay, there's no denying now that there's lofts being built on Ellicott Street next to the Washington Market.

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Ground was broken on Saturday for 8 windmills on Lake Erie at the site of the old Bethlehem Steel plant on the Buffalo Lackawanna border. Each of the windmills will be taller than city hall and together they will provide enough electricity to supply between 2,500-3,000 homes. They claim they will actually be ready by the end of the year!
WOW! Can you believe that over 3,000 people showed up for the Buffalo Brew Fest in the Central Terminal yesterday. This is a sign of many things to come here. I've told you they were promoting events there, but this must have been well beyond expectations!
After the gorge we went for ice cream in Lewiston and then onto Artpark. The hiking trail there goes right underneath the Lewiston Queenston bridge in Canada.
What a beautiful picture of the lower gorge. This is a great spot to sit and relax!
There were an awful lot of snakes out today.
A jet boat takes a time out before it heads back into the rapids. Me and Michael went on one of the boats in Montreal and had a riot!
Today me and my friend Michael went on a hike through the Niagara Gorge. This is the point where the lower rapids spill into the Whirlpool.
On Friday me and my friend Bill went to see The Complete History of America - Abridged at Canisius College's Marie Maday Theatre. It's a comedy that takes you from 1492 right up to current times. It was pretty funny. I highly recommend it whether or you like American history or not.

Monday, September 11, 2006

Father Mychal Judge, the gay priest and FDNY Chaplain who was the first to parish at the World Trade Center disaster.

It's been 5 years since the attack on this country by Islamic terrorists and our lovely President and his administration have completely dropped the ball on finding the real culprit, Osama Bin Laden. The Taliban are now back in Afghanistan and we are still fighting in Iraq, why? We need to be where the terrorists are and we need to be in Pakistan where Osama is with or without that countries approval. Enough is enough, lets get the true culprits and get our troops home, now!

Anyway, enough about that. Let's take a moment to think about those killed in the attacks on 9-11. Here's a good tribute site for the fire fighters lost on this day 5 years ago.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/media/tribute/tribute.html

Sunday, September 10, 2006

We came across some Buffalo Blue Bicycles in front of Tent City on Main Street. This a unique program where you can go on-line and rent a bike. Just select a location to pick up a bike, get the combination for the lock, then just go the location and it's yours for as long as you rented it. There are bike racks all over the city where you can pick up bikes and everything is tracked on-line.
In the window of the Youth Hostel downtown was this display of vintage bikes from the 1800's on loan from the Buffalo Peddling History. Also in the window was plans for a proposed museum on the Buffalo waterfront.
The original clock tower from the Central Terminal was located in Chicago on an on-line auction. It is being temporarily housed in the M & T Headquarters on Main Street.
Sarvino Construction of Amherst recently moved their headquarters to this renovated building in the Cobblestone District with numerous lofts to follow.
Work has begun on the old Neisners Department store on Main Street downtown. This building and the old shoe store next door with be turned into a mix of office and retail.
We came across these bikers doing tricks in a downtown lot.
This sign is all that's left of this old Blacksmith on South Park Ave. in the Cobblestone District. This shop was still operational even a few years ago.
We came across this old '63 Volvo in a driveway in the Cobblestone District.
I thought these signs were funny. The intersection of Marine Drive & Marine Drive.
Big progress is being made at the New Era headquarters on Delaware Avenue. This front addition was recently added.
The Dulski Federal Building on Delaware Avenue was just sold for $6.5 million dollars in an on-line auction this weekend. Who knows what will happen to it now.
Hutch Tech High School on S. Elmwood & W. Chippewa begins renovations under the Joint Schools Construction Program.
Me and my friend Darrell recently went on a walk around downtown, we even stopped for a light dinner at Spot Coffee which recently added very good panini sandwiches to their menu. I always find new and interesting things when I bike or walk around the city. The first thing that caught my eye was the new office building on Delaware which is finally seeing progress. The 2nd of 5 floors is now up!
The September cover of the magazine, our 25th issue!
We made a trip to The Underground after the banquet to deliver the trophy. Things started to get interesting when Liz did a belly shot off of Judy! It wasn't long after this that I left.......lol
There's the trophy. Later the "mitt" would be used to do shots!
We all received t-shirts with this cool logo on them.
Our team heads up to accept our championship trophy.
The gay softball league had their banquet last night at Club Marcella's. Our team was in rare form since we won the league this year. Here I am with Jerry, the team manager and Andy, Underground's owner.

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Justin gets in some practice at driving the boat.
Here I am cruising on the boogie board.
Here's Justin tagging along with Jay on the boogie board.
Here's Jay's mom and his other nephew, Jaylen.
Here I am helping Jay's nephew Justin swim in the lake.
On Sunday we spent the day water skiing, swimming, fishing, and relaxing on Lake Chesdan on Jay's step dad's boat. Here's jay showing off on ski's.
The rear of the train station.