Going Down In History
Well, 2014 is about to go down into the history books.
What kind of year?
I put a book out there.
Dogs On Main Street was a whole lot of fun.
I only went through a lot of the work because I liked it and I wanted to give it to the people who read along all these years.
They liked it!
So that was great.
It won an award at the New York Book Festival as well...so the work was validated.
The 27-Time World Champion Greatest Franchise in the History of Organized Sports missed the playoffs in Jeter's final year...so that wasn't great.
The Bills stretched their playoff-less streak to 15 years and the Sabres are really pretty bad.
So despite the fact that I'm only emotionally invested in the Yankees...
It wasn't a great sports year.
How about the politics of the land?
There were a whole bunch of arguments about guns early on.
Nothing was resolved.
Left and Right battled all year.
No cooperation.
Health Care or Not?
Everyone agreed we had to get it done, until it got done.
Then there was a fight about it.
Later in the year the argument went black versus white again.
A tired old battle that is rarely treated with dignity, and really shouldn't be a question anymore.
Two steps forward...three steps back.
The economy picked up, though?
Right?
Who takes the credit?
Who is to blame?
Who cares?
So tired of the back and forth.
Bruce had a great line about arguing constantly:
You get so sick of the fighting that you lose your fear of the end.
Are you a liberal or a conservative?
I don't care anymore.
Perhaps 2015 will be the year we remember that we're all Americans.
I doubt it.
As for Buffalo itself?
I've never seen a more busy year for construction.
2014 was unbelievably productive for a whole lot of folks.
There was work out there for any and everyone. If you were sitting on the sidelines this year it's because you wanted to.
One big job after another.
And it looks better.
Down where people might gather...
...it looks better.
But don't drift a couple of blocks over because there are still so many people living in straight up poverty.
There were gangs running around.
A shooting every night during the holiday season.
We hit the main spots...
...maybe in 2015 we can branch out a bit and take away more of the ugliness.
As the year winds down I keep thinking about making up a couple of new journal books.
I would like to produce another book.
I want to be around all year...
...with the people I love...
...just pissing and moaning about everything...
...that would be great.
What kind of year?
I put a book out there.
Dogs On Main Street was a whole lot of fun.
I only went through a lot of the work because I liked it and I wanted to give it to the people who read along all these years.
They liked it!
So that was great.
It won an award at the New York Book Festival as well...so the work was validated.
The 27-Time World Champion Greatest Franchise in the History of Organized Sports missed the playoffs in Jeter's final year...so that wasn't great.
The Bills stretched their playoff-less streak to 15 years and the Sabres are really pretty bad.
So despite the fact that I'm only emotionally invested in the Yankees...
It wasn't a great sports year.
How about the politics of the land?
There were a whole bunch of arguments about guns early on.
Nothing was resolved.
Left and Right battled all year.
No cooperation.
Health Care or Not?
Everyone agreed we had to get it done, until it got done.
Then there was a fight about it.
Later in the year the argument went black versus white again.
A tired old battle that is rarely treated with dignity, and really shouldn't be a question anymore.
Two steps forward...three steps back.
The economy picked up, though?
Right?
Who takes the credit?
Who is to blame?
Who cares?
So tired of the back and forth.
Bruce had a great line about arguing constantly:
You get so sick of the fighting that you lose your fear of the end.
Are you a liberal or a conservative?
I don't care anymore.
Perhaps 2015 will be the year we remember that we're all Americans.
I doubt it.
As for Buffalo itself?
I've never seen a more busy year for construction.
2014 was unbelievably productive for a whole lot of folks.
There was work out there for any and everyone. If you were sitting on the sidelines this year it's because you wanted to.
One big job after another.
And it looks better.
Down where people might gather...
...it looks better.
But don't drift a couple of blocks over because there are still so many people living in straight up poverty.
There were gangs running around.
A shooting every night during the holiday season.
We hit the main spots...
...maybe in 2015 we can branch out a bit and take away more of the ugliness.
As the year winds down I keep thinking about making up a couple of new journal books.
I would like to produce another book.
I want to be around all year...
...with the people I love...
...just pissing and moaning about everything...
...that would be great.
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