My View of Life on the Dock
Music © by Andy McKee “Rylynn”
Thanks to all for participating in the photo contest. There are some great shots here. Please vote for your favorite photo. Voting will close Monday. September 14th at 6pm. Winner will be announced at 8pm on Monday. Good luck to all.
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The counter at the Cupboard is made from a classic formica. All those years, all those patrons served and that old formica countertop is still holding up. Sure it’s well worn in certain spots, but polished up over the years it’s certainly timeless. I’d go as far to say that there is something comforting about and old worn formica countertop. You know if the establishment that you’re eating at has one like it that they serve the kind of grub that will leave you satisfied.
Gloucester Classic- The Cupboard Counter, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
From Dave Sag – Thursday Night Blues Party @ the Rhumb Line
Well, summer’s over, but we don’t care. We’re still going strong with our lil shows, and we always will! So, another big week for me. Here we go!
This thursday at the Rumline I’m proud to present Mr. Joe Bargar, he of the liquid voice and flittering fingers that make the grooves hum. Drumbling onward will be L’il Steevie Chaggaris on his kool kit ‘o skins. and ,of course, Greg T. and his hat. I’ll be around, too, like a doughnut.
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From Dave Sag-
And Friday: The Geezers will be limping back into Elliot’s at the Blackburn for yet another grueling experiment in physics.Dave Brown, Dave Mattacks, Greg Tower and myself will be attempting cold fusion of the blues. With any luck, by the end of the night there will be nothing left on stage but a steaming heap. Come find out!
And Sunday, I’ll be up at Glenn’s Cool Bar and Restaurant in Nbpt. From 6 to 9 p.m. playing with this groovy band consisting of my buddies Justin Quinn, on vocals and harp,and his entire aggravation including Jon Ross on gooeytar, Per Hanson, the scariest drummer I’ve ever played with, and Curtis “Lemay” Haines,the Mayor of Nbpt. and a fine stride pianist. Make reservations now! The food is great and the band ain’t too shabby!
Don’t be a cube, Rube; go ape! Live music is best!
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From James Buhrendorf-
“Banding Together” on Friday, September 11 at 7:00pm.
“Benefit concert for the Cape Ann Social Club”
More than 20 local musicians and spoken-word performers look forward to seeing you tonight for Banding Together, the benefit concert for Cape Ann Social Club, at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, 10 Church Street, Gloucester. Admission is $10.
Cape Ann Social Club is a support group for emotionally challenged adults which lost its state funding in December of 2008.
Please bring a friend or two to this community-spirited event. We would love to have 100 people attend in order to reach our goal of $1,000 for CASC.
See you at the church!
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From Erinn Brown-
Saturday, September 12th…The Dogbar
65 Main and Roger St, Gloucester, MA
9:00 – 12:30 p.m.
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You know who you are. The guys that wear the funny shorts that are way too tight and suck your balls right up into your body cavity. The same guys that wear those funny space man hats and shoes that go clipity clop when you walk. Yeah you-
There’s a biking event coming up that you won’t want to miss- The Great Brewers Gran Prix of Gloucester.
From the site-
The Great Brewers Gran Prix of Gloucester – or as The Ride Magazine has called it “the New England Nationals” – unfolds at one of the most beautiful race venues in the country: a wind-swept ocean side park in Gloucester MA.
For information on race categories, race schedule and registration as well as lodging, restaurants & local interests, the racers’ section has all the info you need.
Here’s some video GMG guest interviewer Eric Lorden got at last year’s race-
The Mrs, The Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad are heading over to my mother’s house this morning to learn how to make mudiga and zugu. My favorite home cooked meal growing up was always mudiga steaks with mashed potatoes and peas. I’d make a little nest in the mashed potatoes and put the peas in there.
Fort Square Cafe Mudiga Steaks and Eggs, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
I’ve been wanting to go out on the Thomas E Lannon all summer. It just hasn’t worked out with the work schedule. Slide show with David Cox’ pics from the Gloucester Schooner Festival 09 coming at 1PM
Schooner Festival 09 Pics From David Cox, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
What Up Homie?, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Tobin Arsenault forwarded me these pics- click the picture for the slide show of the Discovery Gloucester Being Built
Thanks Tobin for providing me the pictures
I guarantee if you took an unbiased poll of people around the country, the recognition and association of The Man At The Wheel would be overwhelming in relation to some nondescript building in Lowell.
But what really gets me is the utter disregard for Gloucester in all things political.
The South Shore gets ridiculous amounts of money to fund projects at Woods Hole. Some park that hardly anyone has ever heard of gets to bump off Gloucester on the Massachusetts quarter. Our fishing industry gets reduced to a fraction of it’s former self.
All these other places get funding and recognition.
We should just line up all our citizens and let them kick us in the balls and get it over with. It would be more painful at first but maybe we could get past it.
Where is our representation???
I hope to christ that they are on the phone screaming and taking someone’s head off. Enough is enough.
If you are as disgusted as I am won’t you join me in writing the US Mint?
United States Mint
Office of Public Affairs
801 9th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20220-0001
thanks Renata Green for providing the address
PLAYING AT:
CAPE ANN COMMUNITY CINEMA
21 MAIN STREET – 2ND FLOOR (ABOVE MYSTERY TRAIN RECORDS)
GLOUCESTER, MA 01930
(978) 282-1988
SHOW TIMES:
FRIDAY, SEPT. 11 @ 7:30PM
SATURDAY, SEPT. 12 @ 5:00PM & 7:30PM
SUNDAY, SEPT. 13 @ 5:00PM & 7:30PM
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16 @ 5:00PM
THURSDAY, SEPT. 17 @ 5:00PM
In The Loop is a smart comedy that is drawing instant comparisons to some of the great political and absurdist comedies such as Doctor Strangelove, Wag The Dog and Thank You For Smoking by way of the legendary troupe Monty Python. With razor-sharp, truly laugh-out-loud dialogue the film pokes fun at the absurdity and ineptitude of our highest leaders. With everyone looking out for number one, and the fate of the free world at stake (but apparently incidental), the hilarious ensemble cast of characters bumbles its way through Machiavellian political dealings, across continents, and toward comic resolutions that are unforeseeable.
“A venomous and incisive cinema exposé and it builds a relentless head of comic steam that never subsides.” -Mark Keizer, Boxoffice Magazine
“The savage comedy of ‘In The Loop’ is enough to justify hailing it as a triumph.” -Allan Hunter, Daily Express
Jimmy T took David Cox, his grandson Tyler and Steve Borichevsky for a row aboard a grand banks dory for Schooner Festival. Pics will be forthcoming.
Gloucester Schooner Festival Weekend Pics From David Cox, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
This morning’s Gloucester Daily Times brought news that the state’s quarter will not be sporting The Man at The Wheel Icon even though it won in a landslide of votes, and is being bumped for some park that no one outside of Lowell has ever heard of.
You have got to be fucking kidding me!
Who the hell has ever heard of the Lowell National Park and does anyone really think that our State in any way should be associated with a park in Lowell rather than The Proud Man At The Wheel. This state was founded on Codfish you fucking idiots! What a laughing stock the state of Massachusetts will become if this travesty is allowed to happen.
They put it out to vote- The Man at The Wheel Won in a landslide, and now they are pulling the rug out from under us for a park in Lowell????
Lowell…………….. seriously??????????
Read the story from the Gloucester Daily Times here
Does The Park In Lowell Have a Song Like This Written About It????
David Cox was out and about taking pictures of the Around The Cape 25K. Pics and slide show coming today.
Brian, a fellow blogger from Brooklyn came to town for a visit. Before he came I tried to give him some suggestions on stuff to do around town.
Click this text to read his account of his day in Gloucester
How many of you have relatives that still go down and get their loaf of Italian bread every morning?
My Grandma Rose (although I never called her Grandma Rose, it was always Grandma with the store) would take warm loaves of Italian bread, cut them flat in half, pour the good Italian olive oil on it and season it with salt and pepper. I’ll tell you what, I could eat a half a loaf, even when I was ten years old.
Virgilio’s Italian Bakery, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Joey,
Please spread the word.
Tickets are still available for the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce $25,000 Game. The odds are far better than the lottery – 1 in 500 of winning $10,000 and 12 in 500 of collecting at least $500 – and the proceeds benefit the Chamber’s activities right here on Cape Ann.
A $100 ticket also entitles the holder to admission for two to the $25,000 Game Party, September 23, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., at the Bass Rocks Golf Club. There will be appetizers, a cash bar, and the thrill of learning who will win the grand prize.
To purchase a ticket, call the Chamber today at 978 283 1601. Good luck!
Good Morning Gloucester 