Almost 40 years after Stonewall . . .

Yesterday, I heard on the news that Gov. Paterson wants to legalize gay marriage
Almost 40 years after Stonewall, I still amazed that New York State hasn’t legalized gay marriage.
Hopefully, Paterson will make it happen.

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I’m So Confused

During my journey through the past on youtube tonight, I came across
I’ve been a fan of Richman since his Roadrunner days in the Seventies. But I was surprised when my love interest in another place and time asked if I wrote this song for Richman. When [...]

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Nothing But the Truth

For my birthday, the Boss Mom and the Boss Dad (the lovely Lettuce’s parents) gave me an Ion usb turntable.  We haven’t had a working turntable in the house since around the time we moved to Buffalo.  The plan is to digitalise the 800 or so l.p.’s we have. And in case anyone was [...]

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Tomatoes From the Garden

I am amazed that we still have a few tomatoes from our garden in our kitchen.. I picked several pounds of unripe tomatoes before the first deep frost in mid-November and over 80% actually ripened to an edible state.
2008 was a great year for tomato growing in the garden.

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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo

Over the weekend, I had the pleasure to run a small inventory at the local Nichiren Buddhist Community Center bookstore in Buffalo. It was the most pleasant inventory I’ve ever experienced. The co-managers and others assisting with the inventory were perhaps the most well-adjusted (dare I say happy??) people I’ve [...]

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A German View of the U.S.A.

Der Speigel’s website has a long English language article on the U.S. and the presidential election:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,587736,00.html
The beginning of the article:
“America is a wonderful country, with jaw-dropping wilderness and wide open spaces that seem as far removed from New York or Los Angeles as the moon. America has the best universities with the [...]

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Broken Things

In another century (1999), I was driving home late at night (actually more like early in the morning, the bars were probably closed) from some fucked-up RGIS inventory (if memory serves, I was running it and it didn’t go well) and I heard a song that made me pull over and listen. [...]

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Hours Worse Than RGIS!!!!!

Egads!!! I always thought that the hours I work at RGIS were some of the crappiest outside of job like crab fishing a la the Deadliest Catch. But the Lovely Lettuce has discovered hours worse than mine at the Western New York Developmental Disabilities Service Office(DDSO).
If I understand [...]

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Lovely Lettuce and the Motor Crash

Yesterday (Thursday, Sept. 11) whilst I was counting auto parts at the NAPA store on Military Rd. in Niagara Falls, I got a call from the Lovely Lettuce.
“Hi, dear,” said she, “Don’t panic, I’m ok but I was just rear-ended by some <expletive-deleted> old man.”
It seems that this old man was in  a hurry to [...]

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Sam Hoyt won’t get my vote

Here in Buffalo’s 144th Assembly District, Sam Hoyt is running against Brabra Kavanaugh in a bitterly fought primary battle. Neither side seems to mind campaign material by third parties full of innuendo and half-truths directed against the other. But, oh, when it is directed against them, it is another matter [...]

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