Introduction -- Black is the new black -- I've got the world on a string theory -- The United States of Iroquois -- Buffalo burning -- Mo' better bagels -- Leave it to the beavers -- Angola horror -- Forest to Forest Lawn -- Father baker's dozen -- Form follows freedom -- Cleveland Hill fire -- Bada bing boom, black Cadillac -- A tale of two eddies -- School days? -- a few flakes short of a snowball -- How I was exposed -- Arborgeddon -- Ridin' on the thruway -- Loss of critical mass : when the saints go marching out -- Increase the peace -- Life in Amherst -- The best-kept secret -- Let's go, Buffalo! -- Connecting the drops -- To be perfectly Frank -- Good bones -- Living here in Allentown -- Buffalo past and prologue -- City of great neighbors (and cat people).