My View of Life on the Dock
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Teams Should Show Up No Later Than 11:30AM For Registration,T-Shirt Distribution and Going Over The Rules. We are aiming for a 12PM Start in the first round.
Map To The Farm Bar and Grille-
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On Magnolia Beach
Snow on the canoe
Rough seas off Kettle Cove
Yeah that’s right Gator says. We’re having our strategy session right up in your joint!
Can you say cuckhold?
Canadian Bacon Captain Hozar is Not Amused
Donna Ardizonni wrote to say that several summer’s ago a Black-capped Chicadee hit her house window. The photo she sent is so sweet, I thought you all would like to see it as well.
Donna and Black-capped Chicadee
Check this first ever recording of Marina Evans’ new song. Her performance pulls you in to her world and takes you on a journey you won’t experience anywhere else.
Plenty of musical variety this weekend from choral to classic rock to piano to jam band. See full music lineup here.
…if you haven’t already.
Mr. Pumpkin allowed me to interrupt his nap time for this photo. He is very friendly and relaxed (or at least he was when I visited). He lives at Gloucester Music (210 Main St.), a store that sells CDs, LPs, instruments, sheet music, and other musical supplies and accessories.
You Would Have To Be A Real Dope Not To Get Your Ass Off The Couch and Come Witness The Spectacle. Come Have Some Fun With Us, Spectators Get $5 Pulled Pork Sandwich, Soda and Snack Lunches!
Just got this video from an anonymous source. Looks like they want in…
This is the letter they dropped off with it:
“Me and my boy gonna enter that competition bikini underwear thing. We don’t know what it is but we be dodgen stuff all the time (snowballs, bottles, bullets, busted women that are all up on us). We’re called “Team Deralick Our Motha%&$!!@$% Dodgeballs” it’s been our street/team name for years and years. It’s only the 2 of us but we are good and don’t need any more people…we also can’t find anybody that is looking for teammates. We’ll put an ad on craigslist if we gotta. Otherwise the two of us are real real good. We are ready, our uniforms are what you see – it’s normally how we roll too. How much we win if we win?”
-See you on the court.
ANY MORE DETAILS CAN BE FOUND HERE ON THE EVENT PAGE
Profits from the entry fees go to NextStep a charity that helps teens and young adults with life threatening diseases
These are the organizations- Mamies Kitchen Muffin Tops, Passports Canadian Bacon, Good Morning Gloucester Rubber Rippers, Sugar Magnolias Team Shameless, The Farm Bar and Grill Ass with Class, Saving Private Ryan and Wood, North Shore Cross Fit Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle, , Ed Collard’s House Doctor’s Blinded By the White, Jungle Silkscreening Jungle Fever, Beverly Athletic Club Kiss Our BACsides, another Farm Team Swiss Farmy Knives, Maestranzi Brothers Red, White and Blue Balls, Muffy White Organizing and Manchester Athletic Club Hot Mess, Christina Sanchez’ Dirty Dodgers, Cape Ann brewing Nacho Libre, Cross Fit Cape Ann With Two Teams- Buns and Guns and Power Snatch, Dog Bar’ American Bacon and Beach Gourmet’s Not In The Face
The Splendor of Asia – Photographs
An exhibit of photos from Nepal and India is up at Lone Gull Coffeehouse at Gloucester main st. Holding the Buddha’s nose – Virtue or Misdeed? and other beautiful images are on display in the month of March. Come around and let Jurek Schreiner’s colorful glimpses of Asia infuse some warmth in you during these cold and grey days. Click here to get a taste of them online.
A new group has been formed to support positive change in Gloucester that will strengthen our city. Citizens for Positive Change in Gloucester believes the hotel proposed on Pavilion Beach will help our economy grow. Gloucester needs to move forward, not backward, and create jobs and a healthy economy that will give our young people a reason to stay and visitors a reason to come here. It’s time to say “Enough is enough” to those who’ve held Gloucester back.
The new hotel will go on Pavilion Beach, near where an earlier hotel stood for 65 years. (Here is a previous GMG post about that hotel.) The hotel will create over 100 new full-time jobs, attract visitors whose spending will strengthen our downtown businesses, and generate revenue for the City from Meals, Rooms, and Property Taxes.
Click here to sign a petition to the City Council and Planning Board in support of the hotel. You can also share it on Facebook by clicking here.
If you’re interested in joining us, please visit us at www.WeLoveGloucester.org.
Thanks,
Citizens for Positive Change in Gloucester
Rules of the 2012 bikini/speedo Dodgeball tournament
All 5 team members will start by lining up against the back of their side of the court,
5 balls will be distributed across the center line (2 large kickball style balls, and 3
smaller “stingers”)
On the ref’s whistle, teams can race to the center to claim the balls; those who get balls
must retreat to the back wall again before throwing their first ball. Balls thrown before
that will not count.
Balls that bit the ground first or the side of the court are dead, and do not count for outs if
they then hit a player.
If a player is holding a ball, they can use it to block other balls thrown at them.
If you are hit by a ball or your throw is caught cleanly by a member of the opposite team,
you are out, and must immediately stand in the side court area in the order you were hit.
If a player catches a ball, one player from their team who is already out in the side court
area can come back in the game. (follow the order of outs, the first one who was out is
the first back in, etc.)
No head hunting. Balls thrown at the face will not count as outs and the thrower will be
warned.
Balls that fly out of the court will be retrieved and returned to the side of the court where
they went out of bounds.
Once all 5 players from a team are out, the match is over.
This is a great event for a great cause… have fun!!
Joey, this news just came over the wire about Sunday’s event.
Late-breaking news: MAC ups the ante!
This just in: Manchester Athletic Club has upped the ante for Sunday’s Bikini-Speedo Dodgeball event, doubling the entry fee for Muffy White’s Hot Mess team that will benefit Next Step.
Just as bets before a horse race flow toward the favorite, the smart money before this Sunday’s event is lining up behind the Hot Mess squad. The MAC had held back on making its support public in an effort not to intimidate the other teams, especially the other so-called “gyms” in the event.
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Muffy White
http://www.muffywhite.com
another reason I love it here…
Dave
Simon and his dog Hazel
Karen Ristuben will be performing “Just, one word…” On Monday, March 5, 2012 7:30 pm at the Rose Performance Hall at Endicott College Center for the Arts, Beverly, Mass., co-sponsored by Salem Sound Coastwatch and the Endicott College Environmental Society.
“Just, one word…” a performance lecture about plastics, addresses the issue of marine plastic pollution from an artist/educator’s perspective. Karen offesr a different way to represent and communicate the hard scientific data currently the focus of many marine scientists, toxicologists, epidemiologists, and policy-makers. Her project deals with our use, over-use, and disposal of plastics, their toxicity, and their effects on our public health. Highlighting the issue of marine plastic pollution and its impact on ocean ecosystems including the marine food chain, she uses a multi-media performance/lecture format, using her own and archival video and photography, presenting the facts and data in an aesthetically compelling format. Her message is made personal by her personal story, including her voyage in July 2011 through the North Pacific Gyre with a leading science team from Algalita Marine Research Foundation.
For Directions, visit: http://www.endicott.edu/Academics/ArtDesign-Academics/CenterForTheArtsDirections.aspx
I love weather websites. Watch the clouds roll in, compare forecasts. Weather Underground is my favorite. But then I ran into WeatherSpark. Check it out. Dodgeball weather looking good:
Click the map to go to WeatherSpark with some of my settings. It looks complicated, and it is. But well worth figuring out. Besides forecasts all graphically shown. You can select the cloud cover graph, wind speed graph, wind direction graph, rain accumulation, all sorts of stuff. But the cool thing is to go back into the past. Currently anything after 2007 and you can playback the storm. Watch the clouds roll in for last year’s Halloween storm. Watch the wind direction as Irene comes ashore.
It’s in beta testing so the data will likely go back all the way to your birthday soon.
Rubber Duck Bonus tip: once you pull the slider back and forth (down in the bottom right) so that a past storm is showing, CLICK and DRAG across the hours you want replayed in the map on the left. Now run the cloud movie (slider below map.)
Good Morning Gloucester 