They're not even endearingly bad, they're just bad bad.

It's Calgary! They're terrible! Why are you losing!

Yeah, my other thought was Len Wiseman, which is kind of the same as Chu. Making your bones on endless sequels and somehow still not getting better at the actual job.

This is mostly because I haven't liked anything he's done, but this is Luca Guadagino erasure.

Exactly, the only way you get an appetite is Pegula hitting the bully pulpit (lol) and throwing real money around (double lol). Competing municipalities certainly doesn't help and there is a less than zero chance you get any help from DC.

I was a Fairport kid so we gravitated to the suburban spots, and the Perinton plates just weren't very good.

Priority through the yards is a huge sticking point, one would hope that <20 events a year at the stadium opens the door to limited use agreements. Years ago someone figured there was enough excess ROW space you could lease the land and build dedicated track outside of the yards

WNY rail wish-casting has been a hobby horse of mine for 2 decades now, there is just precisely zero appetite from anyone in power to seriously investigate it

The big issues are CSX/Norfolk buy-in, physical cars, and interchange with the NFTA system. All of which are the types of problems that get solved by throwing money at them and Terry just isn't interested in that.

the NFTA's priority should absolutely be the expansion north. the thing that galls me is that a billionaire could absolutely fund/apply pressure to make it happen. The tracks/right of ways already exist and can get you from downtown to California/Southwestern

when i used to live off hertel it pained me to drive to bailey cause my wife loves bocce club and B&J's was RIGHT THERE, now bocce club is closer to my house and i live in a pizza hell of my own creation

I will drive insanely out of my way for great pizza in Buffalo (Bob and John's) and plates (Empire) in Rochester.

This also sheds light on my fundamental issue with wings in Buffalo - for the most part you're never more than 5 miles from excellent wings in Buffalo and most places are distinction without difference.

Theyve got my attention until the first intermission and I will not hesitate to smash the "30 Rock episode I've seen 15 times" button if I don't like what I see.

I think part of the problem for Oblivion was it was absolutely destroyed by a bunch of May releases in the public consciousness - Iron Man 3, Gatsby, Star Trek Into Darkness, Fast & Furious 6 - all cut into the Oblivion market from a bunch of different angles

On my mom's side, no one owned a house until 1964. The family has been in Buffalo/Fort Erie since before the Civil War.