Monday Big Words Update! Deadline For The D.O.L./Flurries Of Activity

Monday Big Words Update! A Deadline For The D.O.L./Flurries Of Activity

The year just goes by in a blinding flash once we ramp up through December, doesn’t it?

I wanted to pop a few blogs in over the weekend but there wasn’t any time. The Double D’s/Night Life Big Words Column bash was a MASSIVE success this previous Thursday. There wasn’t one single person in the bar who didn’t get a free t-shirt, CD, book, poster or movie! Great drinks were had by all, special guest vocalist Lauren Dragon (a new ingenue from Chicago who just took the Buffalo music scene by storm) surprised us all by showing up and rocking the mic with the Dr. Z band, Joanne at Double D’s was kind enough to throw a free buffet out for the crowd AND you can read all about it next Monday in Night Life magazine! Night Life finally has a new consistent bar reviewer for the first time since I left in that capacity over two years ago and not only is this guy good, he’s not going anywhere. He was kind enough to send me a draft from his first review and whatever you want to call the quality that a good writer of bar, club and lounge reviews has, HE’S got ‘it’.

While ArtVoice’s resident bar poseur Reginald Dwight couldn’t write his way out of a paper bag, Night Life now has a new ace in the hole and this guy hit the ground running. I’d also like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank Joanne and the rest of the crew at Double D’s Queen City Grill as well as Ed Honeck and the rest of my crew at Night Life for organizing such a great event. My star seems to be starting its ascent and I don’t ever forget things like the generosity and support they gave me. While I may be brutally and cripplingly vindictive with people and companies who are still stupid enough to f with me, I am also loyal to a fault and the majority of my contacts and friends are longstanding for a reason. Make a note of that, Buffalo. As far as I’m concerned, I’d like to do an anniversary party at Double D’s every year and it was great to hang out with some of my readers and get wrecked. I also decided NOT to pod cast the event so that I could ease up and enjoy the festivities without being in a constant state of focus for the sake of the douche-nozzles who couldn’t bother to make it. If you weren’t there, you missed out. Keep your eyes open for next November or December because the third anniversary should be a true corker!

As for the rest of the weekend, the Batman Bash at our apartment was a helluva time. We had homemade gumbo, pizza and wings, and thirteen straight hours of live action and animated Batman films. The trolls who somehow still keep Buffalo Rising rolling around in site hits by the dozens (per month) can seethe over my fixation all they want, but if they check out Alie’s pics up on my Myspace profile, they’ll see just what sort of ‘pathetic geeks’ I missed out on. Who was right where the Dark Knight film was concerned? Point to Tom Waters again. It’s been awhile since I’ve said this, but a big go fuck yourself fgoes out to Elena Buscarino, Buffalo Rising and Newell Nussbaumer in that order. How are you guys doing? Not so hot, huh? Well that’s too bad.

As for other ‘don’t ever mess with Tom because he’ll bring your world down by the foundations’ news, the good folks at BuffaloMe.com were kind enough to send me two emails in the wake of my total departure from YourHub.com. They informed me that my name is apparently in their Top Twelve for search terms. I don’t even know how to wrap my brain around that. I guess Buffalonians are reading. If they’d just start popping online and ordering some books, we’d be in business. So spend some money for the holidays, you cheap bastards! I’m not in this for the prestige or the glory, I’m in it for the money! I’ve got a hot wife and two cats to feed, so open up your wallets and buy some (or all) of the books for god’s sakes!

After MULTIPLE emails to Ben Kirst (at my request), my entire blog/profile history has been erased from YourHub. I’m curious as to what Deanna Russo will say when she returns to the helm about Ben’s editorial godheadship in her absence. While the cat’s away, the mice will play, eh? Once again, Ben, you made a mistake, and Buffalo.Me is gobbling the site hits you could have had up like Pac-Man on amphetamines. Do you hear those crickets chirping? That’s your web site. Try and walk around the tumbleweeds, pal. Once more, do yourself a favor, support local (Facebook SUCKS!) and register a profile on BuffaloMe.com. It takes a few minutes, they’re very user friendly, and they don’t decide what blogging content is too hot for the internet. They actually allow their users to speak their minds and they’re over 1,000 subscribers and counting after just two months. BuffaloMe represent, ya’ll! I’ve got some more deep intel about Ben Kirst’s mistep last week, but that ties in to Wednesday’s Gamestop update, so you’ll just have to wait two days.

Working on wrapping it up, there’s another new episode of Big Words Radio. Episode 23. At long last, Kevin McCarthy’s first parter of two is up right now on ThinkTwiceRadio.com. Here’s the synopsis:

Big Words One Man Mobile Unit Episode 23:

The other hour long episode will be up by the end of the week. Kevin is honestly the nicest guy in Buffalo showbiz and it was an honor to get a private concert in his beautiful home in Amherst. Thanks for being so patient with my production learning curve, Kevin! Your two shows were my guinea pigs, so I apologize for any splicing/editing issues ahead of time. And as for musical guests, I still have a few rabbits left up my sleeve and they’ll be hippety-hopping out real soon. Think hardcore local live metal bands. Think TKO’s or surprise left hooks. My next two hour long guests were a riot to hang out with and I think we pissed off my entire neighborhood last Wednesday when we brought the house down at my apartment grotto in Lancaster. ‘Nuff said on that front.

I also co-hosted/appeared on my first broadcast for the newly minted Mr. Ski Mask show for Time Warner cable this previous Friday. I loved meeting Greg Sterlace and I’ll miss him and his wife Paula dearly, but to nutshell it: Sterlace’s show was nuts, Ski Mask’s show is crazier. If you want to see the gay proposal, the full-frontal assault on anyone who watches the show and a whole barrel of rants, check your local listings and catch the show Wednesday night or Friday night on public access.

Almost finally (whew!), there’s a brand new issue of Night Life magazine on stands today with my 3-part Big Words exclusive critique on the 15 Greatest Biopics ever released. I put a lot into the piece, so scoop it up for free all week in the Greater Buffalo/Niagara area!

Closing out, I’m going to drop a deadline for my non-buddy Brian at the beurocratic clusterfuck better known as the New York State Department Of Labor. It’s been 11 weeks with no unemployment insurance benefits and I know you read this site when you’re supposed to be doing what passes for your job. You have three days to pick up your phone and call me regarding benefits that I’ve paid into for 19 years. They are owed to me. Speed up this process or you’ll have a lot of interesting information/comedy to read this Wednesday. Get off your ass, do your job and finish my ’pending’ file. If I don’t get a phone call tomorrow, I’ll spend my spare time writing a brand new essay and I’ve got bile to burn, my friend. In case you haven’t figured it out, I am not a man to be ignored or trifled with and the small army at my disposal is well into the thousands by now. Big ego? No. Focused rage? You better believe it. Get your ass moving after the four phone calls I made to your answering machine (since you weren’t at your desk cracking the case last week from the hours of 9-5) or suffer the consequences. Consider yourselves warned, Department Of Labor. I don’t take prisoners, so get your asses in gear. You don’t want at piece of this. Trust me.

There’s a big barrel of Gamestop Update rolling out this Wednesday with yet again more info than I can cram into one day, so I’ll save a few highlights for X-mas Eve. I’m at two and a half pages of pissed off, so I’ll stop here. One final thanks goes out to Christopher Schobert for his phenomenal profile/interview on Breathing Room and my neurotic written therapy in this month’s issue of Buffalo Spree. You rule, Buffalo Spree! Take care and see you all in two days for new record breaking site hit numbers,

Tom Waters

Kevin McCarthy-’The
Only Sober Irishman In Buffalo’
Tom chillaxes with his home-boy Kevin McCarthy while they talk
music industry, traditional Irish drinking music, and the inadvertent
3-way musical love when session drummer Tom Brown pops in for a ’stop
and chat’ and some musical genius occurs.