What a load of crap. Probably: pizzarias, restaurants, car repair and home improvement. Meanwhile, the "charm" is reserved for certain insulated pockets, while the rest of the area goes to hell for the sake of the local crooks.

Then, after "helping" the area, the plastic liberal goes and spends her profits, from these stupid, inadequate coupon books, on her "margarita" (which, is probably "local" to wherever some cheap-ass bourgeois cruise-line takes her to). Well, at least no one can accuse *her* of being sensitive, or class conscious.


Such a nice example, too, of keeping a stranglehold on a local "community". Rather than allowing people to come out of their ignorant ethnic hiding holes to face the modern century, everything continues to rot according to the gospel of local culture, quaintness (for those who are comfortable) and "buy local" ...which, all just amounts to keeping people within their established "community" zones.

I'm su-ure that local residents would *much* rather have *that* than all of those "cookie cutter" strip malls. Aesthetic is so-o much more important where the median local IQ is probably about 95. Yep. There's nothing like a Buffalo Bills fan for pulling over, on a whim, and appreciating the architecture of some old mansion on the west side, or over at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. And, you would find most of them at Shakespeare in Delaware Park, too ...anticipating every line, of every play, in silent lip-sync. Yep. None of that "houses full of giant color TVs and retarded family pictures" crap around here. We all watch WNED-TV and work to make the Zeitgeist movement a reality around here. We're a designated future Venus Project candidate.


Oh, and, with Ms. Margarita managing to slip in her soundbite, "big corporations", for classic populist effect, I guess we have yet even greater reassurance, within us, that our local moral stewardship is on the ball, in maintaining our tiny-ass, vapid sense of community, for our benefit. I mean, if they ever *really* got their gumption up, we can rest assured they would probably start lecturing the public to - say - change its own (collectively insignificant) consumer behavior, so as to limit pollution and energy consumption. That's far better, of course, than limiting the (truly signficant) behavior of the main polluters and energy burners, and thereby fighting the *real* problem. So, we have other great "win-win"s waiting in the wings, for us, thanks to them ...proving that their "community" slogans follow a veritable philosophy.


So, be sure to run like a maniac to Buffalo First and charge your $15 to your card for this great coupon book. Then, go stop at, maybe, "La Nova" "Pizzaria" to shave off a few bucks for a taste of some that great "local" heritage that we have here, in "charming" Buffalo.

After that, take some of your savings and put them into - say - checking out "The Colored Musicians Club Of Buffalo, New York". (Which, y'all will be much relieved to know is being given $300K, from the city, to have its own little museum http://tinyurl.com/yayjhok , being such an important landmark, and all - that we've all visited countless times, since we were kids - and preserving ethnicity is such an important tool toward fighting social blights, like racism). I don't know if *that* one will be in the coupon book, but - hey - you can do what *you* want with your savings. After all, it's to help "Buffalo".


(BTW, check out these great street view shots of the neighborhoods in order to really capture some of that charm:

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Or, if multiculturalism isn't your bag, then try perusing the white trash selections. Plunk some of that/those money/great savings into a Bills/Sabres game/tailgate..whatever, and order your pizza for that great mind-expanding event, instead. Later, fix up some of your pretty - but, not "exactly" million dollar - homes with those coupons for the latest in pink flamingo, barbeque, decks, ponds and other barbarian decor. It's "...gooo teeam..!!", all the way, when you're changing the world, by shopping "local". Lmao

Yes, we've got some of that sterile, strip mall-like, suburban "charm" in this area ..without as many tumbleweeds as in the city. Of course, what, with the government being the largest employer in WNY, there's just a tee-eensy little problem with strutting too proud, with the talk radio nuts, about liberal policies doing what they've done within the city.


As far as "community" and "landmarks" go, though, we ought to just bulldoze most of that old *shit*, after creating some virtual reality museums and saving some relics for the archives. (Mostly, for the lonely nostalgia weirdos and their stupid cats). Then, we should set about breaking down all of those quaint associations, and reducing them to mere data so that we can renew our focus on science and the future of mankind in the exploration of space. Sure, every great now & then, something is too important to simply bulldoze, but the reasons for that have to be damn good, and not merely sentimental to self-centered, backward ethnic-oriented subsets who are too comfortable to change.

With high water content now being discovered on the moon, to go with helium3, we now have an important first step being provided to us to attempt space exploration. Places like Buffalo, NY ought to be desperately trying to leave their past behind them and becoming centers for this new kind of future. "Local" is a trap.

"thank you" for you "insight" it was "appreciated"

First of all the personal attacks are baseless. I happen to know Ms. Kedron personally and I will vouch for her. She has a very strong class conciousness. Buffalo First is about local business that pay a living wage, betting the local community, and are struggling to do so. Local busnesses do a lot more to get people out of poverty than big business, that's for sure.

And really? Calling peole ignorant and ethnic-oriented and then saying you know what's best for them? That's offensive. No one appreciates being told what's best for them wrapped in an xenophobic insult.

Please re-evaluate you comment. Buffalo doesn't need more shitty service sector jobs that ship prifit overseas and to corporate higher-ups living elsewhere. That's not only unsustainable, that's detrimental.

There are a lot of beautiful places in Buffalo. There are a lot of wonderful people here. We don't need to sell that out. we need to build that up. Washing away our past (instead of building upon it) isn't going to do the average person any good. "Local" is an investment in each other.

LOL. Thanks for taking yet another courageous stance against the racist money loving neoliberals and exposing their self serving prifit [sic] based policies for the public betraying trash that it all is, Turin. Living wage = red flag. The truth hurts and they know it, though most truth is over their heads. Your analogies about their tastes and hypocrisies and what they do to decaying cities like Buffalo were hilarious. Buffalo really needs to be cleaned up and resettled by people living in the new century to save us from the demogag parasites who keep it running to their convenience. Maybe we can meet some advanced aliens from another galaxy who will help us do that shortly after we settle on the moon. Help!