“I’m already sick of Christmas music!” was a slight shock to hear coming from a female workmate before 11 this Monday morning, True, our company’s hall speakers aired WJYE’s constant run of Bing Crosby , Perry Como, and Karen Carpenter. I laughed and asked her how she could say such a thing? “Actually, I love Christmas music,” she replied, adding “but only when it comes after Thanksgiving.” True, WJYE can always be counted on for holiday tunes 24-7, and it’s a great holiday booster, but for some reason they’re starting before Thanksgiving Day this year. And it seems all of…
Author: Bill Zimmermann
What’s an urban legend? You hear about the wealthy bachelor who fell asleep in his hot bubbling hot tub after his Friday night party guests left and the cleaning maid found only bones and soup left of him a couple days later. Then there’s the one about the girl whose tanning booth had a microwave short circuit and fried her insides. They’re all pretty interesting. Well, some of these tales are believable and some are unbelievable. About a month ago you may have started receiving warning emails from friends suggesting that NY State intends to use the EZ Pass system…
On This Day, November 18, the Bills will win. We hope. Taking a weekend walk with your dog is a no brainer time of rest. But it’s sometimes an occassion for all sorts of thoughts to pop into your head– stuff there’s no time for at other sphere’s of a week’s focus. Your mind’s allowed to, well, ramble. Just watch the wind, ’cause that’s where you’ll go. Today’s musings come from my waterfront walk with my Ensminger dog Lilly, —it started out just to be a walk, but as the waterfront winds dipped about, some random thoughts started piecing, highlighting…
Well, hello, Marti, Yes Hello Marti; Its so nice to have you back where you belong– in Buffalo! You’re lookin swell, Marti…….we can tell, Marti! Youre still glowin’…youre still crowin’…youre still goin’ strong! And let’s all hope…Marti’ll never go away again!!! This Buffalo lady is unstoppable. And yes, Marti Gorman is soooo up to it again—she’s come out publishing yet another Buffalo heritage book this week—all about our historical postcards legacy (we’ll BROview this wonderful book this week)…Now, that’s three books about Buffalo Heritage published in less than a year! –including Garden Walk and Oakland Place– Plus consider her dozens…
On This Day: November 15, 1896: A multi-lingual genius of a fellow from Serbia named Nikola Tesla came to America and worked for Thomas Edison at first, later for George Westinghouse, and later himself…. Edison promised Tesla 50 grand if some of his ideas would come to prosper in fruition. After a few patents and a couple years of tremendous success, Edison saw what a prosperous soul he had working for him in Nikola Tesla. So Tesla came to him one day and asked about the 50 grand, to which Edison responded “My dear Tesla, you are still new here—what…
Captain Joshua Slocum’s story comes from Nova Scotia. Just what is it about Nova Scotia?–well, if Montreal ever seceded from Canada, Nova Scotia would almost over night turn into a northern New England state of our US union. Imagine that. They’re New Old England sod and reef. The slam-dunk all-time sailor’s book is Nova Scotia’s own, Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around the World (1900). It is about his epic 75,000 km voyage around the globe in a 13 ton oyster sloop, the Spray, from 1895 to 1898. Our local friend and world sailor, Buffalo school teacher Paul Schimert has work-sailed…
Happy Anniversary to the first sighting of the modern Loch Ness monster legend. Scotland boasts of her Nessie. But did you know about our own Lake Erie serpent monster, named Bessie? Lake Erie’s Bessie was first seen in 1817, but numerous sightings have been claimed in recent years. She is typically described as being a snake-like beast 20 to 50 feet long, 12 to 18 inches in diameter, with dark skin, red eyes and humps that stick out of the water as it swims. What are these creatures? First, the Scottish legend– it goes back over 1400 years telling of…
What a grrreat game today… season in place finally! And so, reaching back in BRO reader comments, we’ll ask our friend, the moniker who goes by “WeLovePanos.”— hey– what you wrote recently, “The BILLS WILL BE GONE IN UNDER 5 YEARS, SAVE YOUR BREATH,… ALL OF YOU… A NEW OWNER CANNOT JUSTIFY KEEPING THE TEAM HERE” Well– “WeLovePanos”– let’s ask if it’s a possibility that the BILLS will stay here …and that maybe even Mr. Wilson will celebrate his 100th birthday HERE in 2018, but with a significant but smaller portion of ownership. Mr. Wilson leads the heralding very roots…
General Sabo spent the weekend with us at CPO and told us that all military servers would simply like to see us reaching out and saying Thank You. Herenow, welcome to the Buffalo debut of: Faith of Friends, (approx. 10 minutes) Watch Film Here Now: This weekend’s ceremonies included open, frank discussion between military and civilians about the meaning of war, its duty, purpose and aftermath consequences. This film held showings on Friday night, and three more showings on Saturday. Channels 2-4-and7, Buffalo News, and here, BRO visited upon the event. This first year event, headed by Mary Dolce, (former…
Ask ourselves this: Why isn’t our precious community’s mainstream media asking the PBA’s Ron Rienas more deeply probing questions about this PBA west side takeover matter? We’ve got many more Questions for Mr. Rienas and the PB AUTHORITY… some of these questions were briefly reviewed and discussed on our interview…many warrant more time and attention than the mere 30 minutes we talked. But let’s hack away at a few concernable more. Loads of questions the community hasn’t even been alerted to– but do command our attention. * Mr.Ron Rienas, let me ask you, why of the 59 options the PBA…