My View of Life on the Dock
Delicious lobster bisque at the Lobster Pool Restaurant in Rockport! I ate everything else up before I could document it. What a delicious view relaxing in the swing too! They have Homie greeting cards and a lobster etched in the cement sidewalk. Click for the slideshow:
http://www.lobsterpoolrestaurant.com
Ten Foot Polecats strip down to 2 as Jay & Jim being their crazy brand of Hill Country Blues to Gloucester for a night of songs about love, lust, death, murder, god, satan and chicken & ribs
My favorite live band. If I could follow them all over the country on tour, I would. Just a few of their songs that do it for me big time. Also, check The Topside Grille further down on the blog for some more info on these guys.
Joanne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcAoTRVCCMY&feature=related
Thursday – 8:30 to 12:00 ~ Dave Sags Blues Party
As we sit at Good Harbor Beach in this 90 degree weather, we can also enjoy the house on the rocks, at 24 Bass Rocks Road.
The house is on the Trail of Thai Royalty and has been photographed for over a hundred years, see photo from 1889 below, courtesy of Amy Shapiro.
It was used as the Summer Home of the Siamese Legation
Also enjoy current photographs.
Due to the Heat wave there will be no regular 10 am post Today.
The 10 am post will resume Thursday July 8th 2010 weather permitting!
When all else fails………
Post Photo of a Half Naked Woman!
My Apology in advance to all who may be offended.
Please send all complaints to: Mr Paulie Walnuts
Simply Cape Ann- Just What The Name Implies
Chickity Check It! simplycapeann.blogspot.com
Photos submitted to the GMG Flickr Group by Simply Cape Ann
Vista from the Atlantic Path in Rockport.
Sheets of slate among the rocks along the Atlantic Path in Rockport.
Red Sox Executive Chefs Ron Abell and Nookie Postal have challenged Your Boy Joey to a lobster roll Battle Royal!
Sure these guys “feed 38,000 hungry, screaming fans 80 plus times a season” according to the Gloucester Daily Times, but the problem is that they are about to run into the buzzsaw that is know in the entire known universe as THE WORLD’s GREATEST LOBSTER ROLL documented in these pages time and time again.
Poor fellas. They should have picked on Curt McAdams from Bucky’s BBQ and Bread who uses French baguettes and loads the goddamn roll up with lettuce, then they would have easily rolled over the competition but they had to go and call out Good Morning Gloucester.
From the Gloucester Daily Times this morning-
Next Week: Fenway Park Executive Chefs challenge Joey Ciaramitaro to lobster roll competition
By Times Staff
It might be hard for some of us to believe but Fenway Park and the Red Sox have two gourmet-class executive chefs overseeing all of the ballpark food needs. Not only do they feed 38,000 hungry, screaming fans 80 plus times a season but they also serve hundreds of catered events inside the park, from weddings to class reunions to birthday parties.
Like the team, the Red Sox chefs are not afraid of competing with anybody, and they are so confident that they claim that the Fenway lobster roll is better than even what is served in Gloucester.
For The Rest Of The Story On the Gloucester Daily Times Website Click Here
if I can convince them to allow for spectators does anyone want to go in and be part of the studio audience?
click the pic for the slide show
click for larger view
Sure Looks Like The Squammies Know How To Have a Good Time
you know the drill- click the pic for the slide-show
According to the Boston Globe of June 9, 1991, George Gleason was a colorful character who made a decent living working the clam beds of Cape Ann. He was also a trapper, sold bait and fishing tackle and was a story-book New Englander.
This memorial is found at the entrance to Long Wharf on Atlantic St. Does anyone have personal memories of George that you would like to share? If so, please send in a comment so that we newcomers can learn more about our local history.
Thanks To The Daniels- Always Super Hosts
When Do We Do It Again?
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For all the posts from last year’s Tall Ship Camp
Every person that did it last year said it was an incredible adventure.
Check out This Video From Last Year-
Lattof Farm opened on June 24 and I was too busy to stop for my favorite food product of all Cape Ann (besides lobster). Until this weekend. At 9:30 AM every morning the Monkey Bread (uppercase) comes out of the oven. This is not your normal monkey bread (lowercase). This has a wee bit extra sugar, butter, and cinnamon in it. Even if your kids find it and try to eat all the really gooey pieces the last piece will still be just as gooey as the first.
Unwrapped:
And then, like a monkey, no knife, just fingers, you pull a chunk off:
The 9:30 AM timing is not precise but I sometimes just keep driving by because you can see them on the shelf on the right-hand side top shelf. Go to the dump, drive by, maybe go circle around Dock Square. Getting them right out of the oven is killer but it is also the fear that there are ten other people circling the block and when you do stop the last one is placed in someone else’s shopping bag. That happened once and the tears would not stop …
Reconsidering my strategy for the Blackburn Challenge in ten days. It’s quite possible that the wind will be blowing and the boat will be rocking. I need more ballast. That’s where the Monkey Bread comes in. If I eat one of these every morning for the next ten days I think I will have plenty of ballast to make it around Cape Ann.
Tomorrow’s post will be of the Rockport bonfire. I can’t even look at those photos right now, too hot.
This art haven kids mural always makes me happy…
Hi Joey,
Can you post a performance announcement for me? Here’s a poster for the performance this Friday at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum, along with a little info if you want to add some. THANKS.
Vincent Cacialano – PLEX
with Sarah Slifer
and film / video by Alan McDermott
Choreography and Live Art Performance
Essex Shipbuilding Museum
July 9th 2010 at 7:00PM
$10 suggested donation
UK-based dance artist Vincent Cacialano and Gloucester dance artist Sarah Slifer pair up to perform Cacialano’s PLEX,
a multi media performance event. It is a collaboration of contemporary choreography, sound and visual art. Three works will be shown during the evening, two dances titled Plex 1 and Instructions for stopping and starting, as well as a short film titled Ouch. The work explores visceral, challenging movement and complex compositional structures alongside visuals and moving imagery.
“It looks simple in the beginning but the further Plex is taking you you may get startled by all the aspects telling something at the same time, somehow together. You are getting plexed indeed." Phosphor – Live
“a combination of strong execution and off beat humor” The Washington Post
Good Morning Gloucester 