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Snap! - post no bills

Snap! - post no bills

Originally uploaded by Buffawhat. Taken 28 Apr ‘07, 4.32pm ADT PST.

Corner of Allen and Elmwood… Going home after some brainstorming with Chris

Latina’s bare shelves soon to be empty

Latina’s bare shelves

Originally uploaded by Buffawhat. Taken 27 Mar ‘07, 3.47pm AST PST.

Latina’s Foodland will be closing its doors for good on Saturday, ending what was just under two years of service to the downtown Elmwood region. Monday, customers were greeted with a sign notifying of reduced hours and the eventual shutdown after business on Saturday.

I knew it was happening, we all kinda did. I took this picture in the middle of March, fed up with finding the aisles half empty week after week. we (the customers) kept asking if they were closing, but we’d get the same lame excuse that shipments were hard to get in…

I guess I can go to Wilson Farms for the basics… and if needed.. I could take the bus to Target, or even Tops… but a lot of people in the area can’t travel that far and depend on Latina’s…

But it can’t be helped… the store will be closed, and yet another shell will mark the block for some time to come… the question is how long before we get a new grocery again?

Yesterday’s Triumphs

Coffee Betch

Originally uploaded by Buffawhat. Taken 23 Apr ‘07, 2.21pm ADT PST.

Triumphs meaning: I was up before twelve, ate breakfast, walked down Elmwood, did laundry, and paired two like souls together for a convo.

The weather was incredible, even though its raining now as I speak; Angel and I spent literally the whole day on Elmwood, shopping, tasting the local fair and learning the hard way that being a hippie is hard work. Angel also took a lot of pictures of me…

Be Buffawhat’s Neighbor, And Possibly Housemate!

Do you love me so much that stalking just isn’t enough… ever wish for the opportunity to collect my toenail clippings to complete your shrine to my glory? Or perhaps you are looking for a way to kill me in my sleep, and wear my face like a halloween mask…

Well, completing any of these tasks could get a hell of a lot easier with the Nickel City Co-op now accepting applications for housemates in July-August.

Located perfectly on the corner of North and Elmwood, the Granger Mansion was designed by E.B Green at the turn of the century.  Inside, you’ll find the hard work of dozens of housemates, past and present; the restored mansion shows life from every person involved.

Living in the house brings a sense of community, belonging, and is simply the hippest place to live on Elmwood. I’ve been a neighbor of this fine establishment for almost a year. I was quite suprised to find that inside, the walls were not made of tufo, yet the people were made of soul.  Through community involvement and local partnerships with food-growers and suppliers, living in the co-op is also benefits area you live in as well.

Stop by sometime, open potlucks are every wednesday starting at 7pm. I hope to be moving from the crack house to the co-op this summer. Be my neighbor, or be my housemate, either way check it out.

Nickel City Housing Co-op 

Sai One Brings White Boy to Buffalo

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Not this whiteboy, I’m already old goods here… but the shirt… oh the shirt. Everybody loves a big cock. A pure word-of-mouth line,

White Boy is all about the wearer’s style and attitude. What people think is the last thing on his mind. White Boy is not about color it is about standing out in whatever you do, pushing the limits, and taking matters into your own hands.

Worn and repped by stars such as Tommy Lee, Jessica Alba, Chester from Linkin Park, Good Charlotte, White Boy now has the unique opportunity to make its mark on a city thats full of its own attitude.

Angel brought in more than just White Boy, peep the pics below and check out his store on Elmwood and Bryant, next to Solid Grounds.

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Check the Linkage

Sai One

WhiteBoy

Fairy Face

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Originally uploaded by Buffawhat. Taken 9 Feb ‘07, 9.59pm AST PST.

I tend to submit myself to “photo shoots” when I drink a little bit… I was just at Casa da Pizza with Angel of Sai One on Elmwood… He had his camera.. I had a few Flying Bison Pints… and well.. ya know…

Snap! - Renting Chinese

Snap! - Renting Chinese

Originally uploaded by Buffawhat. Taken 5 Feb ‘07, 5.24pm AST PST.

My First time eating from chinese kitchen on elmwood near Latinas… Its the closest food place to me… However my GI tract always made me hesitant… We shall see in 2 hours if I was right

UPDATE!!! - My stomach survived, however the General Tso’s ( I get that as a test of how good the place is) sauce resembled slime… maybe a prop from one of those Sigourney Weaver movies. Walking into the place itself smelt like an old locker room, and the fried rice carried the smell to my table as well.   Hopefully… Kirky Boy will get a hankering for some good Chinese at work and we can partake in the ritualistic Wednesday MSG imbibment.

Sai One Private Line for Buffawhat

Here’s an example of just how much custom love Angel over a SAI One (on the 400 block of Elmwood) puts into his wares:

That’s right… my very own branded messenger bag.

Picking a gym

I going to join a gym.

I need to shed the “twink,” and I have a $300 gym credit from Univera to burn. Plus, when I get home from work, there is absolutely nothing to do but sit at my window watching people walk down Elmwood as I pet my delightfully obese black cat. I have two gym choices, and they are about as different as can be.
Easily misconstruable graphic below.

Option #1 - Allentown Athletix

Location: Delaware and Allen, Buffalo

Distance: 0.4mi (a jog, or an easy trumpfh through snow)

Membership price: ~$76, after the 300 reimbursement and a 15% off first time offer.

Equipment: Weight room, cardio room, circuit room (no idea, but I saw pulleys), A few multi-use rooms, two racquetball and squash courts, Hottub/sauna, decent locker facilities.

Pros: Allentown Athletix is obviously more queer-client

Tags: Buffalo NY, elmwood, Elmwood Ave

2006 - A year for growing.

My New Years celebration was spent working at Marcellas (3pm Sunday-9am Monday… I was just a little bit tired). Amidst the crazy drunks, dozens of beer runs, light boards crashing, and confetti cannons, I actually managed to have a decent time; then I cut my hand on a broken champagne glass (it was stealthily hidden amongst a pile of plastic glasses).

Looking back at this past year, I’m actually proud at how far I came:

• January - OMG 20! I escaped my teens and the countdown to 21 commenced. I was still living with Jamie in our next to last apartment on Norwood/Auburn. I loved that apartment. It actually had rooms, instead of the studio/lofts we previously and futurely occupied. My first semester of Buff State had ended, and I was in rough shape. School/Work/Jamie was a major conflict for months to come.
• February - I can’t remember too much of February except that I started my internship at the agency I work at now. Valentine’s Day escapes my memory, which is a good clue to how my relationship with Jamie was headed.
• March - School almost crashes on top of me… and later does. I believe this was the time that we moved once again (Jamie’s solution to bills? Don’t pay them and run! it was my fault as well, I never assumed any major responsibilities… just surrendered my paychecks every week) to delightful Elmwood. I did not sign the lease. This turned out to be a good thing. Utilities, however, were in my name. This turned out to be a bad thing.The buffawhat.com domain was bought at the same time I erased razyr.com. I can’t believe I just tossed away such a priceless blog/network and all my readers.
• April - I get hired at my agency and fall in love with my new career! My relationship with Jamie continues to plummet as the work/school/Jamie conflict escalates. I start to realize that I had poured my entire life into Jamie. He controlled everything. I let it happen; that was my greatest mistake.
• May - It was the beginning of the end. After about 20 breakups followed by some sap letter or something else that kept us together… Jamie began to ask me if I was living with him out of neccessity. I couldn’t answer that. I loved him, and like a good southern housewife I was willing to put up with everything to make it work. I had never truly lived on my own before; I knew I could do it, but I was so used to co-dependance.
• June - Pride 2006, my first pride event. I was gussied up in pink with Jamie and the rest of the Buffalo Bears on our “Friends of Dorothy” float. We strutted down Elmwood right in front of the catholic protesters, collected our first place float trophy… then headed to one of the bear’s house for a party. That night a misunderstanding prompted Jamie to leave me at the party. The following fight was a doozy… and I got into my first physical fight with a loved one. It was the end. I was tired of Jamie being an alcoholic, tired of him controlling my life, and tired of the bullshit that I let him get away with. The fight was more of a drunken stumble match… with gravity overcoming us both… but Jamie to this day will tell you that I tore his sternum and cracked three ribs. My dad picked my up that night and took me back to Bradford. I was in Buffalo by the end of the week (The fight was on a Sunday) signing the lease on my new diggs, the first all on my own, on the corner of Elmwood and North. I tried to come to terms with Jamie, but things just got worse.
• July - I’ve learned one thing well, and that’s moving on from a bad situation. I got over Jamie fast, maybe too fast. His obsession with personal life made things hectic for a while, especially at work. I still loved him, and even still do; it was so hard to watch him fall apart and do the things he did that month and the few to come.
• August - I started blogging again; buffawhat.com had launched. I reconnected with a friend and we started collaborating on some artsy stuff… I started dating again… the boy queue had commenced. Jamie’s attacks got more interesting, I started to fear for Brent’s tires (which oddly got slashed after a threat from Jamie).
• September - More boys to date and Jamie finally let go. Work took over my life and I was getting to be happy. I was also getting to be lonely. I quit smoking, too (that lasted for a few months).
• October - My boy queue was dwindling down and not much luck for a winner. I started gogo dancing at Marcellas and the club began to suck me in. It wasn’t so much the scene as it was getting behind the scenes and having something to do on the weekends. The storm prompted everyone in Buffalo to look for beer. My friend Brent was holed in with me (I think more out of desire than neccesity) and I got really sick from trudging around in the snow. The end of October brought a certain individual into my affections as my summer of power dating had left me jaded and tired of all the typical Buffalo queers.
• November - I went home for Thanksgiving and got sucked into MacHeist, despite the laptop biting the dust. I shed the single status for something slightly more attached as the bf (sorry, he refuses to let me mention his name again on the blog, out of fear that people find out that he’s really a sweet guy and in a relationship again… silly ole grumpy bear!) and I start a very interesting journey together.
• December - I seemed to acquire a new job with the new relationship, and I become the next light technician and barback at Marcellas. Christmas underwhelms me, and the bar scene gains my distaste as my weekends are consumed with getting people drunk for the holidays. I bump into Jamie at Cathode… we don’t speak and he promptly leaves with his date. I get my credit card in order.. and my plans to get out of debt have begun… The year ends with a bit of respect for myself on overcoming my biggest hurdle: trusting myself and believing that I can take care of myself.

2007 is going to be a big year for me. I really want to extend massive gratitude to the few people that read this blog and the friends I’ve made because of it.

Note: it seems that Jamie was mentioned a lot in the review… well he was a big part of last year… and yes I do admit he was psycho and our relationship was a total mess, but I also know that a lot of it was my fault. So I share the blame, and if you read this Jamie… thanks for whatever we had… I never would have been able to make it this far without you.