Archive for July 15th, 2003
by Tom on Jul.15, 2003, under Uncategorized
Trying to get back on the bandwagon again, I’m starting an early update today, in an effort to not blow off another day of updates.
In less than three hours, I’m going to be beginning the process to enter the Bridgehampton Fire Department. With my impending move and the length of time it takes to actually go through the process of becoming a fireman to actually being one, the thought was that it’d be best to start now, while the time was right.
If you wonder why this should have any significance, check out the first article I wrote for Buhner.com, called “Where’s The Fire?”. In it, I describe my frustration with the local fire districts and the seemingly bizarre practice of the districts complaining about a lack of membership, yet making it overly difficult for someone to join. The Improper Hamptonian newspaper/magazine that I reference in that article doesn’t have the story that they wrote about the subject archives, but then again, the whole Hamptonian has down downhill recently, going from witty satire about the surroundings to just being another Dan’s Papers knockoff making jokes at the most extreme of stereotypes while making sure not to really offend anyone of value (especially potential advertisers).
In other news, I came across a good article that was written a few months ago about Jay Buhner and his life now in retirement. The article, “Buhner Still Creating A Whole Lot Of Buzz”, was written by Jim Moore of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (horrible name for a news paper; is “intelligencer” even a word?), and doesn’t exactly probe deeply into Buhner’s life, but it’s a nice story on his continued relationship with the fans in Seattle and some of the things he’s doing now.
I took some screenshots for another review that I’ll be doing in the near future, so that’s something to look forward too. Outside of that, we’ll see what happens.
