How did I get this way? Well the album following the jump will illustrate the whole evening. Here is the final installment of the St. Patty's Day weekend in Buffalo. These were taken by me mainly at the parade in Allentown - which is where we go each year for this event -. The usual suspects were there -with the exception of Mordiki and Paul- but you will see Anth, Dave Jeremy and a few new faces.

This album is very overdue for publishing but what can I say, it does take time to process all of these, plus I can get a bit lazy. These were taken at Buke and my house at our St. Patrick's Day party this year. My old man and Mr. Doyle came which was really cool, a number of friends from work as well as the regular Goonies. Check them out and feel free to make fun of us in the comments.

South 96(dot)org -catchy name- is my high school's class reunion page. This was brought to my attention by a face from the past. Now the big question is, do I go?

On one hand, it would be nice to see everyone -well the ones I liked at least- and hear what they've been up to. See who took the path of young marriage and kids, and who floated towards career and independence. I wonder how many will be divorced? Perhaps that will be more of a twenty year thing.

Now we come to the opposite hand of this forecast. I can see myself falling into my old routine, and my collection of cronies and I will keep to ourselves, drink to much and pretty much do what we do every Saturday night -yes I still hang with my few high school cronies-. But then again who am I kidding, I'm a total social butterfly and would mingle until my knees got weak and still drink to much.

Well; what about you? Did you go to your reunion? Or if your a graduate from South in 96, are you going?

Friend and colleague of the web world, Richard Brunton has launched his newest project. FilmStalker is his UK based movie site where he will be writing on movie news, reviews and culture.

I had the pleasure of working with this bloke writing for the Movie Blog. He knows his stuff and I will be reading FilmStalker daily - I would recommend it to all film fans.

Mike Brand, author of Brand Knews.com is now an authority on the great game of lacrosse. Well so says he in his post boasting about his write up on Island Dispatch.

I have had the pleasure -well pleasure could be a strong word- of playing the game with Mike in my youth. We played against each other in high school, we were on the same college team for while, finally for a number of years I played ether with him or against him in the annual Beaneater Tournament in Buffalo NY. Mike knows allot about the sport and coaching at Grand Island is a goog gig for the guy. Now I don't think his team would like to see images like this, but then again Mike is the type of guy who shares that information.

Good luck with the site Mike, and lets gat WNYLAX.xom up and running.

This is a post asking for your donations. I never do this, but I think it is a great cause and I want to show a pal of mine some support -because he is a better person than I am-. Paul Bell is participating in a fund raiser for the Roswell Park Cancer Institute on June 25th. He will be riding his bike to fight cancer and he needs our help. The Ride for Roswell is an anual event here in Buffalo, which raises thousands of dollars for cancer research and treatment. If you would llike to donate and support Paul's riding, follow this link and give what you can. We will be monitoring the total donation amount up until the day of the event and posting Paul's progress. Thanks!

My good friend Jay aka "Buke", "Buke Daddy", "Bukezilla" or "The Buke" if your not into the whole brevity thing, sent me an email this mornning telling me what he wants for Christmas. Now I can tell you that this guys taste is a tad on the odd side, but I know this very well, so within the past O' 10 years I have become very use to his likings. He also has a tendincy to spend large amounts of money on not so good things. Such as a "Gogo 13" slot machinei from Japan, Women, large amounts of Japan imports, you get the idea. Now he would like Mike Patton, handwritten ORIGINAL lyrics from FAITH NO MORE. For only the starting bid price of $130.00.