Jason Brzoska
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Sunday, July 09, 2006

Albany, NY -- My Week in Pictures

I didn't post much last week, but I guess that's because I had better things to do. OK, well, not really, but here's what I did:

Ari had to come to Albany because Binghamton was so flooded, so he and I holed ourselves in the house all weekend, played PS2, and drank several 40s... sort of a homeless adolescent male's fantasy!



Ari's classy!


We decided to be antisocial even on July 4th, when my sister held a pretty hoppin' barbeque downstairs... one thing we didn't miss was her American flag Jell-O shot cake.



Yesterday, I drove to Binghamton to pick Ari up to drive to Rochester to see Pete Yorn. I realized on the way up I-81, however, that the show was actually in Buffalo! No matter, we got to eat at Dinosaur BBQ in Syracuse, which is always delicious, saucy, fattening, and drunkening.



The show was great; Pete and his band were at the top of their game. The highlight of the show was probably "Crystal Village," off of the Day I Forgot album.



On the way home, I stopped in Sidney, NY, to observe the damage done by the flooding two weeks ago. I took hundreds of pictures, and will be posting some over the next few days.



The Susquehanna River in Sidney, where the river overflowed its banks

York, New York -- Look out for the natives

So it's almost 1 am and we're heading back from the Pete Yorn concert in Buffalo (not Rochester Jason!). Jason's driving and he almost hit a raccoon a second ago. It was a fun night. We should be back in the Bing around 3:15 this fine morning. Holy crap... a second raccoon. Anyway, aside from almost wrecking the new car twice while avoiding the raccoons, we're doing pretty well out here. And yes, I'm too lazy to log myself in to the account.

My Rounds

The Big Questions
Balloon Juice
D-Day
Daily Kos
Democracy in Albany
Digby's Hullabaloo
Edge of the West
Empty the Bench
Eschaton (Atrios)
ESPN.com
James Howard Kunstler
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewschool
The Loisada Times
Matthew Yglesias
Mixed Multitudes (MyJewishLearning.com)
MyDD
The New Jew
NoMaas
The Phil Nugent Experience
Roger Ailes
Sadly, No!
Silicon Investor
Spencer Ackerman
Table Hopping (Steve Barnes)
Talking Points Memo
Times Union
Whiskey Fire
Working Life
Yahoo!


Albany Blogs

Albany Eats
Albany High
Albany Media Bias
Albany Poets
Albany PTA
Albany Public Library
Albany Weblog
The Buzz
Capital Region Blogs
Capitol Confidential
The Friends of the Albany Public Library
Frum Outdoorsman
Matty N's Blog
Ramblin' With Roger
Ron's Blog
Times Union Editors




Other Blogs

Andy Bachman
Campaign for America's Future
Erin Schwartz
Godless Liberal Homo
Huffington Post
Idol Chatter
JRants.com
Philosophers' Playground
Politics1
Rob Bellinger


Other Favorites

The Atlantic Monthly
Bill Simmons
The Daily Show
IHOZ
Le Show
The New Yorker
The Onion
Ze Frank


Companies I Work for/Have Worked for

The Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel
The Curriculum Initiative
Long Dock Beacon
MyJewishLearning.com


Music

Aerosmith
Alice in Chains
Barenaked Ladies
The Beatles
Ben Folds
Elliott Smith
Fastball
Foo Fighters
Genesis
Green Day
Heatmiser
Jimmy Eat World
Led Zeppelin
No. 2
Pearl Jam
Pink Floyd
Queens of the Stone Age
Steely Dan
Stone Temple Pilots
The Who