Buffalo's Own Patti Novak

My new favorite show: Confessions of a Matchmaker on A&E.

Finally, Buffalo on the map, thanks to straight shootin' and sassy Patti Novak. Only a spicy saucy Buffalo gal could tell a man "You're gay," and have him be so cool with it that he lets her set up him with a dude. But this is, afterall, the home of the magical hot wing.

Every week Patti helps lonely people who walk in the door find love and happiness by giving them the harsh truth--in an equally harsh yet endearing accent of long a's. "You're too tan! Stop tanning for one week. You have harsh look. When you're fifty you're gonna look like an old bag! Do you know what hung up wet and rode hard means? Well, you're hard." In this hyper politically correct world, it's refreshing as an icy Labatt's Blue Light to hear someone telling it like it is.
The tan skank couldn't handle the truth and walked out of Patti's office, but the guy who went out with a dude had a great time! We certainly can't count on the Bills for happy endings, can we? Or the Sabres.

Ugh. Perhaps it was too soon to bring up the Sabres.

Way to go, Patti! Western New York is in the house in a good way!