Month: February 2012

So You’re Tom Brady…

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

You spend 24/7/365 saying All The Right Things to the media. Every single day when they try to bait you into saying some disparaging remarks about opposing teams or percieved malcontents on your own team you ALWAYS without fail brush aside comments and diffuse any possible media shitstorm.

And then moments after a devastating loss in the Superbowl with the entire world watching your Victoria Secret All Star Supermodel drops a bomb saying something to effect that her husband "can’t throw AND catch the balls"-effectively throwing his receivers under the bus and undoing all the goodwill the guy has built up with his classy image year after year.

When the shit hits the fan and the Boston Sports Media does its usual hysteria laden rants against you, do you give her a pass because she’s a smokeshow Supermodel or do you flip out?

http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com

Costco vs Grocery Store. Who Ya Got?

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

@lifehacker: Wondering if a Costco membership is really worth it? This grocery store vs. Costco experiment compares food prices: http://lifehac.kr/xW9K5y

http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com

Dave Sag’s Blues Party to host Mr. Mike Mele. This Thursday night @ The Rhumb Line

Posted on by Joanne

 Thursday – 9:00 to 12:00 ~ Dave Sag’s Blues Party

Dave says,

  Let’s welcome Mr. Mike Mele back to the fold. Poor Mike: he feels neglected cuz he hasn’t been around much since he’s so busy with that organ grinder trio he’s so proud of. Must be tough taking care of a capuchin monkey: what with the laundry and the pellets and all….
  Some years back Mike and I had a nice brunch gig going: played a lot of grueling standards and gargled our way thru many obscure bluesy tunes. Hardly anybody blew their cookies! Now he’s back and I’m gonna try and trick him into doing a few of these neglected gems. watch him squirm!
  But seriously, folx, Mike’s a great player, really boffo, and a boon to add to our increasingly expanding Augean Stable. Come czech him out!
  Backing him up  will be our tonsorally-challenged madman of meter: Mr Steevie Chaggaris, on drummmbs, and ,of course, Greg T. and myself complete the circle. See you there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoGiDCsj9b8

More Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester

Posted on by God's Morning

Catherine Ryan writes:

Thanks to GMG, here’s a nice note and a family photo sent in to Joey in response to the pictures of EDWARD HOPPER ALL AROUND GLOUCESTER.

Hi Joe – we corresponded awhile back about Cigar Joe and my grandparents who lived on Gould Ct.

I mentioned that my great grand parents – Joe Ciaramitaro – not your Joe J – had lived in the Haskell House way back…. I saw the Hopper painting of the Haskell House in your feed … to complete the circle – here’s a wedding picture from my great aunt Catherine, taken on the stairs at the Haskell House in 1945.

And since you know Gould Ct., there’s a great Hopper painting of the Unitarian church that looks like it might have been painted from somewhere on Gould Ct.

Enjoy. Steve Auditore

I revisited Gould Ct; five others mentioned that vantage point, too. Please share more stories or locations (more than 90 and not all known!) about Edward Hopper all around Gloucester.

The Last Schooner

Posted on by Sharon
Schooner Andrew & Rosalie, Gloucester, circa 1935 Alice M. Curtis/©Fredrik D. Bodin
The last Gloucester-built fishing schooner was the Andrew & Rosalie, which was constructed and launched in 1930 at Burnham’s Railways (in the area now called Harbor Loop). With a 20 foot beam, her deck was 92 feet long and she carried 4,600 square feet of sail. The schooner was renamed American Eagle in 1941 by new owner Captain Ben Pine. In 1984, after 53 years of hard fishing with the Gloucester fleet, she was purchased and rebuilt by Captain John Foss for the passenger trade. Berthed in Rockland, Maine, Schooner American Eagle can be seen in Gloucester every September for the Mayor’s Cup Race, which she’s won eight times. http://www.schooneramericaneagle.com/
Schooner American Eagle, Gloucester ©Fredrik D. Bodin
Images printed archivally in my darkroom from the original 6×7 centimeter negatives.
Fred
Fredrik D. Bodin
Bodin Historic Photo
82 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930

My favorite Boston Cinematographer Rick Macomber’s “Life In Singapore”

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Rick writes-

Having traveled to Singapore many times now and having produced a few shorts on this beautiful city in Southeast Asia, this time I thought it would be fun to interview some friends to see what their take is on the place I’ve grown to love. Since I was not "working" while I was there, I only brought out my camera and gear while eating and hanging where the cool kids hang, I have also thrown in a few shots from previous trips. I wish there had been more time to shoot, but that would not have been fair to the folks I was there to see.
I hope you enjoy it!

Check out his website here-

Here’s his vimeo page-http://vimeo.com/rickmacomber

GMG Product Test- AEROSHOT BREATHABLE ENERGY DEMO

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

So for those of you who know me you know that for 8 months of the year I wake up for work at 3:45AM 7 days a week to get down our commercial lobster dock.

It’s a grueling year doing a lot of repetitive work and it’s very physical as well.  So when I get home I’m uusually tired.  Getting home usually between 6-7PM eating dinner and then trying to stay awake to spend some time with the family.

The Mrs and I try to get out for dinner once or twice a week and it’s nice to not be falling asleep in my plate.  So I drink lots of coffee and if I’m really really dragging I’ll chug down a red bull to try to help me stay awake past 9PM.

Anyway I saw this online ad for Aeroshot breathable energy and it seemed intriguing.  Instead of having to consume the liquid and sugar of the red bull take a couple of huffs of the AEROSHOT.  On the AEROSHOT website they had a twitter page so I followed it.

Then while on twitter there was a promotion for a free sample so I signed up.  It came to the house about a month ago but last night we had a dinner party to go to and I was pretty beat so it seemed like a good night to give it a go.

In the video above you can see the packaging and how the system works.

Here are my findings after using it last night:

It was very easy to use, you pull it from each end so it opens up and then put it in your mouth and when you close it a certain amount of what seemed like a crystalized powder entered your mouth where it dissolves and gets ingested into your body.  you don’t get all of it with one burst,  I did about 5 or six inhales.

You immediately get a taste of lime followed by a sharp bitterness.  I had just brushed my teeth before so the taste wasn’t all that great to me but I think I would opt for something a little sweeter for a flavor instead of lime.  A berry flavor would probably counteract the bitterness better than lime.

Within a couple of minutes I felt a rush and my heart rate increase.  It was very noticeable that my alertness was heightened and it was more than the rush you would get from a red bull, 5 hour energy or drinking an espresso.

The alertness and heart rate increase lasted about 2 hours.

Foxy

Posted on by Marty Luster

As we move into late winter and early spring, be on the lookout for young foxes in their cozy dens amid the granite boulders. This one lived at our last residence in NY, but I have seen one from my kitchen window here in Gloucester.

Guest Artist Exhibit at Khan Studio & the GMG Gallery

Posted on by God's Morning

There is one remaining time available for a guest artist this summer on Rocky Neck at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery on Madfish Wharf (6/8-6/21).  In addition to the great opportunity to exhibit your work on Rocky Neck, the oldest working art colony in the country and an incredibly beautiful and fun spot, you get to have your work seen by all the great Sunday morning Mug Up attendees and GMG peeps.  If you were thinking about a guest exhibit this season, better move fast.  You can go to http://www.khanstudiointernational.com/goodmorninggloucester%20gallery2012.htm for more info and to confirm the date.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Is it Peter or is it T-Max?

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

TMax2

Watch this first of our 5 part video series where T-Max’s walks Gloucester’s music scene.  In this part 1 video you can see how T-Max got here and watch for his imitation of Peter.

Open mic, funk jam & KBMG tonight.  Get out and enjoy the music!

Muddled Mallard

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

An atypical chocolate brown duck–possibly a hybrid between a domestic duck and a Mallard–filmed at Wonson’s Cove, Rocky Neck.

Wednesday’s With Fly Amero ~ Special Guest ~ John Rockwell

Posted on by Joanne


Dinner with Fly Amero: 8 – 11pm Special Guest John Rockwell

The guy is a walking encyclopedia of american pop music
and pop culture with wonderful vocal/instrumental skills. He’s
also an engaging and hilarious entertainer who just happens
to be too damned handsome for his own pants. Everybody
loves him, which would kinda piss me off if he wasn’t such a
nice guy and good friend. Enter: JOHN ROCKWELL

Prime Rib Specials!

Wednesdays Only!

*Each week features a special, invited musical guest
Dave Trooper’s Kitchen…
Prime Rib Dinner – $9.95 (while they last)
Prepared fresh weekly by “Troop”… always good!
Sincerely…Fly.