Large Vendor Show: South Park High School, Saturday, November 18, 2017...9 am-noon . Lots of local vendors selling unique crafts, jewelry, home decor and much more. I'll be signing copies of my book, "Written In The Stars:The Book Of Molly" and previewing my new website: www.buffalomud.com Please join us.
http://buffalomud.com/
Friday, November 17, 2017
Friday, June 9, 2017
Local Author Anxious About Deep State Surveillance Too...
Bauerle |
The letter contains photo and video evidence along with expert testimony recounting several incidents, dating back to 2013, where Bauerle believes he and his family became the subject of high tech surveillance by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for the strong stance he took on his radio show against the Safe-Act (which primarily reduces the size of a gun clip). Feeling he was being observed by nefarious forces Bauerle made several calls to local police, but when they found no evidence of surveillance the talk show host asserted the ruthless Cuomo was employing new cloaking technologies such as non-linear optics and adaptive camouflage to track his movements. Now, given the endless leaks emanating from the White House, Bauerle believes deep state forces are using these same cloaking techniques in an attempt to bring down the Trump presidency.
Though an ardent Progressive, opposed to both Bauerle and the Trump administration Kane has been noticing some strange occurrences in his own back yard and believes he too is the subject of deep state cloaking surveillance.
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Dropped off a new batch of my novel "Written In The Stars: The Book Of Molly," off at Dog Ears Bookstore & Cafe. Also, I'm now volunteering there on a part time basis. Stop in Sunday 3/12 from 11-3pm or Wed 3/22 or 3/29 from 5-8pm. Get a signed book and a good cup of coffee...
Dog Ears Bookstore & Cafe
Dog Ears Bookstore & Cafe
Monday, February 20, 2017
Delivery People Unsure About New Account...
After their yoga class, Brandon,
Melissa and Jodi (Southtown drivers) would drink Chai Tea and eat Organic
cookies at the local Starbucks while engaging in conversation that typically
revolved around late planes, nearly getting bitten by dogs and the absurdity of
the dead-end sales leads they turned in every month. But, the mood on this
winter night among the friends and co-workers was uncharacteristically quiet
and tense until Brandon finally addressed the elephant in the room, “Melissa...
Jodi... I’m just going to say it, I’m really troubled by all the Walmart.com
packages we’ve been delivering lately.”
“Me
too,” said Melissa crumpling her impish nose, “That offer of free two-day
shipping on purchases of $35 or more is really taking off and those packages
clogging up my shelves are creating such negative energy in my truck that I’ve
hung extra Swarovski Crystals in the cargo area and have misted up my seats
with my favorite essential oil blend, but nothing seems to weaken that evil
Walmart aura. ”
“It’s
really stressing me out too.” Jodi said putting her hand on Melissa’s arm.
“With so many new things to protest, from the repeal of Obamacare to Betsy
DeVos wanting to bring the Kingdom of God to public schools, it’s not fair that
we have to hate on Walmart all over again like it’s 2005.”
The
friends were unsure what to do about this seemingly insurmountable problem.
Walmart was horrible in every way, from the wages they paid their employees to
their huge carbon footprint, but with Amazon relying more on their own delivery
network they needed these Walmart packages.
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Random Prompt #297: What Takes Too Long?
My
wife’s work stories always revolve around someone being an asshole to her and
they’re always too long. Trying to provide context she feels it necessary to
give a full accounting of co-workers resume and work history. Instead of
something simple and straightforward like this: “I had this conference room
booked for a meeting at 1pm, but this asshole, Jim from accounting, was in
there eating his lunch and wouldn’t leave.”
To
which I could give a simple fat free response: “Screw that guy, why can’t he
eat his lunch at his desk or in the cafeteria like everyone else?”
But,
no, it’s always this: “You remember Jim from accounting? He worked at HSBC for
Bart Ehrman. Remember Bart, he died of exposure on a nudist beach in 1993? Then
Jim came to work for us, but was a real pain in the ass because he resisted
Excel and wanted to keep using WYSIWYG, do you remember him? Well, Jim slept
with my friend Joyce (sleeping around Joyce comes up in every story) and got
caught and would’ve gotten fired, but the guy from Human Resources, Jay Pribus,
who got fired from being a Buffalo Teacher Federation Rep because he always
sided with the administration, he was sleeping with Joyce too and Joyce said
she would blow him if he fired Jim. Well, this asshole Jim from accounting was
eating lunch in a conference room I booked....”
As
the late, great Benny Sorra once said to me; “You ask my wife what time it is
and she tells you how to make a watch.”.
Thursday, January 19, 2017
Random Prompt #298: What is your favorite work of art?
Random Prompt #298: What
is your favorite work of art?
Looking up and to the right from my desk chair,
near the door frame, I have a painting of the iconic 1949 Herman Leonard
photograph of Ella Fitzgerald at Club Downbeat in New York City with
Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman looking on from a front row table. I had been
trying to buy a print of this photo for a long time, but everywhere I looked it was temporarily out of stock, which prompted my fabulous, multi-talented
daughter, Madeline to do this painting for me and it’s my favorite...for
several reasons.
I
grew up in a quasi-jazz house in the 60's and 70's, That is to say the background noise in our house
was the jazz my parents listened to on the local public radio station WBFO 88.7 or the long defunct WADV 106.5. Today, 88.7 is public affairs NPR and 106.5 is new country and plays endless sagas about faux cowboys drinking beer on the back of
pickup trucks. While WBFO played it pretty straight, WADV had personality with Buffalo Broadcast Hall
of Famer, Fred Klestine spinning a unique jazz blend and wishing everyone a salubrious day. Or you could hear Bernie Sandler’s Big
Band program playing Count Basie and Bennie Goodman. As great as they were, Basie and Goodman, didn't excite the imagination of my generation and in no way could compete with the coolness of The Beatles and Bowie. But, by osmosis I must have gotten them because by the late 70’s my
attitudes toward jazz started to change when I heard stuff by Charlie Parker,
John Coltrane and Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. through my friend the
Doctor, who was and is, always a step ahead of everyone else.
Sunday, January 8, 2017
Big Wayne Wants To Know What They're Doing Up There?
Built
on thirty bricks and his wife’s homemade, Sriracha soaked, mac-n-cheese, twenty-eight-year
vet, Big Wayne is the bearish anchor of the A-Belt. As the morning sort begins
he stands with gloved hands looking up the moving conveyor belt with a certain
amount of dread at his co-workers at the top of the line engaged in conversation. As the
packages roll down and start to assemble in front of Big Wayne you can hear him
audibly sigh as he looks at the pile of boxes and letters. Just like yesterday, just like every
day, many of the packages from Amazon, Walmart and Verizon were missed by the
still talking and
flitting about co-workers up the belt. Big Wayne picks up the
missed packages, goes past the already struggling guy pulling the mall truck
and mutters to nobody in particular, “What are they doing up there?”
Setting
the packages on the steel gearbox enclosure halfway up the belt, he spreads his
arms in disbelief and yells to his still talking his co-workers, “Hey, the
weekend’s over, it’s sort time,” Having their conversation interrupted they
give Big Wayne a funny look before resuming their conversation.
Returning
to his position he finds still more packages that aren’t his spinning against
the blocking bar at the end of the belt. Exiting the big 700 that carries the
mall freight, the mall guy says, “Might be a long morning, looks like Toys R Us
is getting a bulker.”
Big
Wayne responds to this information with an exasperated eye roll as he removes
his and 217’s and 218’s freight from the belt. After the mall guy and Big Wayne
get caught up the freight momentarily thins out, just as late starter Donna
(218) arrives at her truck. Having seen the printout of her stops Big Wayne
gives her the rundown and reminds her about the crazy pit bull at 323 Aurora,
which is getting their monthly “Direct Signature,” medication today.
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Random Prompt#299
Random Prompt #299
Have you ever spoken up
when you saw something going on that was wrong? Were you scared? What ended up
happening?
When
I read the topic sentence for #299 my mind immediately jumped not to a time I
spoke up, but to a time that I didn’t speak up. My middle daughter Caroline was
maybe ten years old playing on a town softball team and was eternally stuck in
right field. There were older girls on the team and some travel players getting
a little extra work in this less competitive league including the coach’s
daughter. Caroline had endured this same scenario on the previous year’s team:
stuck forever in right field while the travel girls and the coach’s daughter
pitched and played infield. Bored to tears at the lack of action in right field
she would start to play with the dirt at the edge of the infield or would twirl
around with outstretched arms like a helicopter. I would encourage her to keep
her head in the game and she tried, but she was ten and stuck softball’s
version of purgatory. Who could begrudge her this lack of attention? Youth
sports coach, that’s who.
Neither
Caroline or I can remember if she asked the coach if she could play a position
other than right field or if he just took it upon himself after she was lost in
an extended daydream, but between innings in a game that they were hopelessly
winning the coach, in front of her teammates, teammates parents and the whole
town softball community, imitated her helicopter routine. This is a man of
fifty plus years spinning around with outstretched arms telling a ten year she
can’t play second base if she going spin around like a helicopter.
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