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One of my favorite things about living in Buffalo is the front row seat we have to incredibly powerful winter storms. Yes, winter is long, grey, and depressing but when the lake-effect machine gets activated and the storm rolls in, standing by a window and watching the outside world get pounded by wind and snow…
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What do the elves of the North Pole do when Santa leaves to deliver the presents? I imagine it being similar to a pro sports team after their season ends. Some elves may go under the knife, some go party in Cancun or Ibiza, and some go put their feet up and chill on the…
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I love to sneeze. The best is when three or four or five (or more!) sneezes get lined up in a row. You don’t know when they’ll start or when they’ll end. It’s nice to have something taken out of your hands like that. One can’t binge sneeze or develop a sneeze addiction, although I’m…
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For lunch today, I bought five Buffalo chicken fingers (with a cup of blue cheese) from a supermarket. You are supposed to heat the chicken fingers up in a microwave but I ate them cold in my car in the parking lot while listening to Rich Eisen talk about the Miami Dolphins on the radio.…
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There are worse ways to spend an evening than talking on the phone with a friend for two hours. I consider myself a private person who can get by without much human interaction. In fact, too much human interaction makes me run for the hills. And then there are long, winding conversations filled with laughter…
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I think I might have trusts issues. I don’t know if thermostats are always telling the truth. They say they are keeping the temperature at sixty-nine degrees while it feels like four degrees outside, and I commend them for the effort because that doesn’t sound easy, but why am I wearing sweatpants, a hoodie, and…
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It is 9:47 in the morning on a Saturday in December and the snow is falling hard in Buffalo. There is an emotion inside of me that I’d like to tell you about. Have you ever felt this way? It is really cold and snowy, and the outside world would take some effort to move…
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Hands cracked. Shins cracked. Forearms cracked. Its Friday night and the cars drive by. Look out at the road, the road is cracked. Salt and snow getting into every pore, like the sweat in Wichita at Jack White’s ranch. The way the Earth tilts and the sun shines differently, Its a mystery. Lake effect snow…
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The Paul McCartney song goes “Simply having a wonderful Christmas time.” What kind of person “simply” has a wonderful Christmas time? How do you have a Christmas time without remembering the stress and the fights of previous traumatic Christmases? Having said that, Christmas is timeless. Or eternal. It always comes back. Even if you don’t…
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Today, I wanted to write a blog about some of my favorite things, so I did some of my favorite things: I ate pizza and I drank beer. Unfortunately, when I try to do things on purpose in order to write about them, the whole thing usually turns into a dud. The pizza was good;…