Flying into JFK Airport this morning on our way to see the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra perform at Carnegie Hall, Buzz loved certain things about New York. We love the fruit vendors and the street food, the shish kebabs, the international feel.
However.
The airport smelled sweaty and it felt grittier than ours. Our Buffalo airport is always so clean and nice and no muss, no fuss.
There was absolutely no reference that we could see in JFK Airport to the Spring For Music Festival going on at Carnegie Hall, the festival for which the BPO is performing on Wednesday night. Our airport has signs cheering the orchestra on.
In Buffalo you come to expect certain amenities, such as that Albright-Knox Jasper Johns painting, pictured above, that graces our airport restrooms. That is what we wrote in Twitter.
And then -- and then -- we got to wondering about it.
Could the designers of our airport have meant that on purpose, to put Jasper Johns in, well, the johns?
We hope so! Those would be designers you could be proud of!
Another relevant Albright-Knox masterpiece could be Picasso's "La Toilette."
The Tonawanda whale of a sale Buzz just reported on got us thinking of the other Tonawanda whale -- the Big Blue Whale car wash!
That whale was there when Buzz was a little kid and we used to beg our dad to take the car through it. The whale's name was Willie. We never knew that!
We are not the only one affectionate toward that whale. This scholarly Flickr page has pictures and letters -- click on them -- that were published about the whale over the years. Buzz got a kick out of a letter from a Tonawanda killjoy who found it "monstrous, ugly and completely distasteful." Hahahahaa!
Alas, the Save the Whale campaign failed.
And you wonder why so many cars are dirty this time of year.
Those are Buzz's keys held to the back of his neck in the picture! If you look carefully you might be able to make out our Tops and Wegmans cards.
It is right and just that Howard be pictured because he inspired the story. He came down with a heck of a nosebleed and we had never dealt with one before. Hence Buzz's health story.
It is like Mathilde Wesendonck inspiring Richard Wagner to write the Wesendonck Lieder.
You know Buzz, we put the "gal" in gallery. And so the other day, visiting Toronto, we went to the Art Gallery of Ontario, where right now they have an exhibit called "Laughing at the Art World."
We immediately went looking for that exhibit and had fun laughing.
Look at this guy!
Ha, ha! The sour-looking guy on the wall had actual chest hair and everything.
The faces were even funnier and creepier seen from weird angles.
A whole installation was built around a record player and a handful of records. You were allowed to touch and so ...
A while ago Buzz was giggling about the kid who, seeing Christmas trees tied to people's cars, asked his parents, "Can we take our Christmas tree out for a ride?"
It is great how kids interpret things sometimes!
But sometimes these children know what they are talking about! Buzz reader Nora Pulinski, of Tonawanda, tells us that her daughter-in-law, Michelle, and little grandson, Luke, were driving in downtown Buffalo.
We personally think the sailboat in Row 3 and the bowling paraphernalia in Row 7 should switch places. Many more people own a bowling ball than own a sailboat.
The beer and the bison should switch places too.
And where are the things that really belong on this chart, namely: 1.) a missing car muffler; 2.) the Skyway; 3.) Super Flea; 4.) Lance Diamond, in silhouette; and 5.) Zubaz pants?
Oh, well, you know what they say, hindsight is 20/20. Even without these corrections, we love this chart. You would think they would put this up as a joke in eye doctors' offices.
You do not find Kmarts around as much as you used to and Buzz is lucky to live near one, at Hertel and Delaware. We stop in when we want to brighten our day!
The kitchen department is decent and the underwear department is without parallel.
The idea is to blur your pictures just a bit to get that French Impressionistic effect.
