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One night in Lana'i

We got married! It happened one night in Lana'i and I would have told you all sooner, but I wanted to put together this kick-ass slideshow.

Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2008. I lost a bit of the blog momentum there in 2007 and wanted to say that I am using the start of 2008 as an excuse to come back to the Buffalo Blog. I have a lot of exciting news to share with you all, so look forward to that in the near future. Thank you for the words of encouragement to come back to the blog. I wanted to send out a special thank you and a belated Merry Christmas to Nate. Thanks for not giving up on me, even after I had given up on myself. I don't make resolutions, but if I did, I would resolve to update my blog more often and I miss hearing from you guys (that includes Parker and Christina as well). So, here's to hoping that I've got what it takes to be a blogger... 2008 will be the year of the Buffalo I predict!

Haiku

Nothing to see here
The silence overwhelms me.
I will post again.

Damn the Man!

I looked both ways. No traffic was coming. I saw the hand was red. I crossed. I get to pay $46. Funny thing is that I constantly see people urinating, smoking crack, rolling joints, and defacing property, sometimes all at the same time and I get a ticket for crossing the street so I wouldn't miss my bus. It's ridiculous. The other funny thing, is that I was warned. When I moved to Seattle, people said, "We don't jaywalk in Seattle, the police ticket for that." But I laughed and said, "Don't the police have better things to do with their time?" I now know the answer. I'm thinking of selling the citation on eBay to subsidize the cost I have to pay. Would you pay $50 for a jaywalking ticket from the fine city of Seattle? It just might be a collector's item someday.

Gotham City Ninjas

To quote a professional:

Ninjas can kill anyone they want!  Ninjas cut off heads  ALL the time and don't even think twice about it.  These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time.  I heard that there was this ninja who was eating at a diner.  And when some dude dropped a spoon the ninja killed the whole town.  My friend Mark said that he saw a ninja totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.

So that's when I was totally shocked to hear that there is a restaurant in New York where the Ninjas don't just flip out and kill you, but serve you sushi and sake. It's called Ninja: New York. It is a $3.5 million dollar, 6,000-square-foot recreation of two 18th-century, mountainside Japanese villages, Iga and Kouga, the birthplace of Ninja warrior lore (more info an a review at LowerManhattan.info). So, if you're looking to have your mind blown and you're in the greater NYC area, head on over for the deadliest dinner of your life. If you manage to make it out of the place alive, let me know how it is. If you're too scared to go yourself, this video (clearly designed to lure victims to their lair) gives you an idea of what they want you to expect. But you can't anticipate a ninja's moves, so the only thing you can expect is the unexpected.

Before I wrap this post up, I have to give credit where credit is due. I did not discover this totally rad restaurant by myself. My friend Juan tipped me off. I think Juan may in fact be a ninja, but don't let him know you know, or it will be the last thing you ever know. He's working on a top secret new business venture, and I'm sure it will be awesome. If you're interested, head over to his blog inluu territory to find out how it's going.

Won't You Be My Neighbor

I recently discovered this great new blog, CHS: Capitol Hill Seattle. It's all about my neighborhood and it's been up for a little over a year. They are way better about keeping up with their posts, generally posting a few times a day. So, during the slow times at the Buffalo Blog, head on over there to see what's up. They have already turned me on to a lot of great things in the area, like Vios, a hip, Greek Market and restaurant with the best meatball sandwiches around! Soooo good.

CHS also tipped me off another great resource, The Capitol Hill Times. It's got more great stuff about what's going on in the neighborhood. I think the reason I like this site so much is that they have a police blotter. Be warned though, it can get a little addicting. Plus, I've had a jones for a police blotter ever since I desperately tried and failed to find one in the days after the incident involving the police dog and the man under our neighbor's car. It only goes back about a month, so I'm no closer to unraveling that mystery now than I was then. Good times. "Come out or you will get bit." What a nice welcome to the neighborhood.

I digress. CHS is a very cool blog and makes me feel a little more hip knowing what's going on in the neighborhood. For example, I bet you didn't know that some guy is filming an indie movie at the old First Church of Christ, Scientist? Or that the Capitol Hill Mommie Mafia loves pudgy-fudgies? I didn't think so, but now you do. Spread the word, bird.

The Daily Chuckle

A calm and respectable lady went into the pharmacy and walked right up to the pharmacist, looked straight into his eyes, and said, "I would like to buy some cyanide."

The pharmacist asked, "Why in the world do you need cyanide?"

The lady replied, "I need it to poison my husband."

The pharmacist's eyes got big, and he exclaimed, "Lord, have mercy! I can't give you cyanide to kill your husband! That's against the law! I would lose my license! They'll throw both of us in jail! All kinds of bad things will happen! Absolutely not! You CANNOT have any cyanide!"

The lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist's wife. The pharmacist looked at the picture and replied,

"Well, now. That's different. You didn't tell me you had a prescription."

The Next One is the First Song on Our New Album

So, by now, you've finally realized that I have a few tricks up my sleeve. The Church Sign in my previous post was not a real church sign. I generated it using the Church Sign Generator. It's a slick little site that lets you pick from five different church signs and input your own custom message. They also have the Concert Ticket Generator, Vinyl Record Generator, Cassette Tape Generator, and many more.

Yeah, I wish I could take credit for finding these things out in the wild, but I'm not that talented. But I put this challenge to you. What's the best thing you can generate? Post your best generation in the comments section and we'll see who's got the chops for corporate marketing.

I personally, think that the Buffalo Blog's new executive seal is pretty honking sweet. Peep it:

Hang in there...

I'm a terrible person for not updating my blog...

A Brief History of TV

Don't have much time to post, but I watched about 3 minutes of this and wanted to make sure you all saw it. Now, go find someone to reminisce about the good old days with