In anticipation of being out of town on Election Day, I went to the Board of Elections today and cast my ballot for Barack Obama ( Read more... )

There may, if she is lucky, come a time in a young lawyer's life, when, facing unemployment in the near future, she gets to go do the kind of thing that some of us pictured ourselves doing when we went to law school in the bloody first place ( Read more... )

This year's Nichols Quiz:

http://www.buffalonews.com/lifearts/next/story/424384.html

I got 67. According to the article, last year's winner (among incoming freshmen, ie kids half my age) answered 63 correctly. Go Bradford-educated brain! Yeah for St.

This summer has been a lot less about hitting up festivals that I usually go to every year -- not that I'm cutting them all out by any means but I did miss Taste of Buffalo -- and a lot more about 1.) Traveling and 2.) Making my own fun. I work a lot more than I used to and sometimes a big event just seems like more work -- trying to get where I'm ( Read more... )

I accidentally smuggled a small weapon into the Buffalo airport this weekend ( Read more... )

Summer things accomplished yesterday ( Read more... )

I realized earlier this week that Hellenic Festival/Pride weekend (they fall on the same weekend every year it seems) is one of my favorite times on the Buffalo calendar. I look forward to it like it's The Smiths v. The Cure, or a long weekend. More than anything -- Memorial Day, longer days, leaves on the trees -- it signals that SUMMER IS HERE ( Read more... )

I just saw a crow chase a cat down Pennsylvania Street. The cat is hiding under my neighbors' car.

There's nothing quite like the experience of being woken up at 6:45 am to "Pump up the jam" being broadcast over a P.A. system, followed by an off-key rendition of "O Canada" and of course "The Star Spangled Banner ( Read more... )

Two pieces I wrote for Buffalo Spree that, to my surprise, came out pretty well, are available online ( Read more... )