Stuff We Love- Breville Juice Fountain Compact Fruit and Vegetable Juicer BJE200XL

When the Mrs and I went to Playa del Carmen one thing that we really loved was that for breakfast and every 30 yards of so there was a joint that sold fresh juiced juices. It was invigorating and a great alternative to the three cups of coffee way I normally would start my days.

The Mrs got us a Breville Juice Fountain Juicer and we’ve been using it daily. I’m not one to eat an apple or orange in the middle of the day so this has been a way to get a bunch of fruit into my system and the drinks are delicious!

Here’s me making one-

Stones Pub Clam Chowder Outstanding

I added the black pepper and Tabasco.

The signs of a good chowder- not too thick, not too much thickening agent, lots of stock and Stones nails it on all accounts!

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Getting My Bhudda On At Red Rock Canyon With The Rabbit

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You would think I might have been relaxed by looking at the first picture but due to my extreme fear of heights my heart was beating about a million beats per second.

Take a good look at that mellon on the Rabbit would you?  It’s like Elvis went gay and had sex with bhudda and somehow this was the offspring that resulted.  And not the young Elvis that all the young girls wet their panties over, the coked out peanut butter twinkie eating Elvis just before he croaked on the crapper.

I love you man.

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Gut Fish? Tuffy’s Buddy Mya

Tuffy writes-

Pictured here is my buddy Maya . She managed to land this barracuda off the north coast of honduras . Her father and myself helped her land it outside of the reefs of the island of roatan. Maya is Smart, Sweet and afraid of NOTHING !!!

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GMG Posts: 19,981

Another milestone should fall Saturday Morning- 20,000 posts on GMG since inception, December 29, 2007

We wouldn’t have done it without the friendships and encouragement from you, our GMG community.

So thank you to our contributors, our commentors and our readership.

It’s been a fun ride and I plan to keep bringing the fun and strive to make GMG your first stop on the interwebs.

http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com

Thank Heavens Someone is Finally Taking Action

You know who you are.  All those foursquare users that feel it necessary to automatically tweet your every location and when you become "mayor" of the Starbucks on 43rd street or that you ousted someone as king of the portable toilets.  Personal Note:  No One Cares!!!!

If you add a photo of a meal there or of the scene perhaps that would be of some value, but to simply state where you are, think about it, have you ever given a shit when you read someone else’s "check-in" tweet of where they are?  i can tell you that NO ONE CARES.

Finally there is an agency looking out for the welfare of twitter users and their sanity against useless tweets.

The Twitter Police

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Here are some examples of Tweets that should never have entered cyberspace (and I enjoy most of what these people tweet otherwise)-

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Conversely some examples of tweets that are of value-

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To My Fellow Bloggers Around The World A Question- A Blog Post Is Not A Blog, Is It?

I’m talking about the terminology here.

It’s sort of a pet peeve of mine when I read other bloggers refer to one of their posts and to be specifically speaking about that one post and refer to it as “this blog”. To my way of thinking it isn’t “this blog” you are referring to, it should be “this blog post”.

If you are referring to the entire body of work consisting of all the posts that have been written on that person or group of people’s blog then it is the blog but not the individual post. The individual post should be referred to not as “this blog” but as “this blog post”

I think it confuses blog readers who may not really understand how blogs work and that blogs exist past the home page to include all previous postings written by its contributors, generally in chronological order. I’ll try not to sound condescending but the reality is that there are large percentages of the Internet reading population that don’t understand these concepts let alone that they can search for previous posts or how to navigate to previous day’s blog posts by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking on the previous posts link.

Anyway, maybe I’m wrong but didn’t know where else to turn for the correct term.

From where I sit a blog post is a “blog post” and the entire body of work is a “blog”

So if I were referring to this blog post I would never write something like this- “When I set out to write this blog”. I would write ” When I set out to write this blog post”

I’m 98% certain that I’m right but I see some very popular bloggers who actually have larger readerships than GMG make this mistake. Unless of course I’m wrong. Where do my fellow bloggers fall on this and is there a blog governing board that could clear this up for me.
I’m pretty sure for Journalists there some AP guidebook that tells you the right terminology for stuff like this but I’m not sure it exists for the blogging world.
Joey Ciaramitaro

http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com

An example of it being used in what I would be considered the wrong way is here on my favorite blog other than GMG, Barstool Sports-
http://boston.barstoolsports.com/random-thoughts/and-the-pussification-of-america-continutes-keene-basketball-coach-fired-for-calling-a-player-a-lazy-piece-of-shit/

Video- New England Aquarium Sting Ray Touch Tank With Snoop Maddie Mad and The Bean

All these years going to the Naples Zoo and I never knew they had a Honey Badger!

Jim Hughes writes-

Hi Joe,
This is the Naples Zoo Honey Badger. They are an animal whose
adrenalin never shuts off. Run, walk, dig then run again. No wonder
you relate to them…run, walk, type then run again!!

Keep up the good work,
Jim Hughes

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Chickity Check It! Some of The Area’s Greatest Photographers Local Photos In The GMG Flickr Group

click the picture to view the slide show

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Muffy White Organizing and Styling and Beach Gourmet Catering Enter Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Tournament

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The Latest Business to Get in on the action is Beach Gourmet Catering. As many of you know Matt beach will be opening up shop after last year’s horrible Washington St fire in the location of the former Connors Pharmacy.

Also Muffy White Organizing and Styling Has Thrown their hat into the ring. Muffy an active fitness freak has signed an as of yet unnamed group of athletes to represent her.

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If you have a mess of a house and would like a little semblance of order back give Muffy a call.

Here’s her website- http://www.muffywhite.com/

I’m not really sure who would be intimidated by a team whose captain’s name is Muffy but hey, she’ says she’s bringing the thunder.

In other Bikini Speedo Dodgeball news Ryan Pinkham who once the ink dried on his players contract representing the Sugar Mag’s team immediately set out for a nice ball waxing stating that he’s really going for an aerodynamic package.

I told you any team that signs up will get their links and logo included in every Speedo Dodgeball post leading up to the event. GMG is only seen by 25-35,000 people a day so for you to not sponsor a team and get that recognition in these pages for your organization is just plain bad business. Not to mention that all of the profits are going to Next Step, an organization that provides support, education and resources for teens and young adults coping with cancer and other life threatening illnesses. www.nextstepnet.org

Erik Lorden owner of Passports whose team name will be Canadian Bacon specifically called out team from Crossfit Cape Ann stating-

“They’re Going Down Like A Sweet Muffin!”

Eric Lorden from Passports told me they ordered bikini’s and speedos with maple leafs on the ass and are looking into getting white swim caps with the maple leaf as well.. .So we have The Farm Bar and Grille, Ryan and Wood Distillery, George’s Coffee Shop,Sugar Mag’s, Cross Fit Cape Ann, Beverly Athletic Club, Good Morning Gloucester, Jungle Screen Printing, Passports Canadian Bacon, Ed Collard’s House Doctors, Mamie’s Kitchen Muffin Tops, Beach Gourmet Catering and Muffy White Organizing and Styling so far.

Get a team together, have a ton of fun and do some good. Wins all the way around.

You don’t need to be sponsored by a business you can get a team together yourself. Funny team names are encouraged!

So get in on the fun, drum up some awareness for your organization and help with the fight against the suck that is cancer.

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Our Hosts The Farm Bar and Grille check them out the Farm’s Facebook Page here

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Here are the other squads signed on

We have a Ryan and Wood Distillery sponsored squad (best damn spirits you can consume on the planet) check out their website and live distillery webcam

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George’s Coffee Shop Squad- take a gander at some of the deliciousness that comes out of the kitchen at George’s here

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Sugar Mags is putting a yet to be named team together- check the breakfast artistry that is Sugar Magnolia’s and like their Facebook page. Also did you know Sugar Mag’s does catering?

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Cross Fit Cape Ann should be the early favorites, we will see if their elite training will put them over the top. Check out their blog here

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Beverly Athletic Club’s Team will look to contend with the cross fit athletes from Cross Fit Cape for the top seed.

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I will be sponsoring a team from GMG featuring our boy Kurt Lubbers and a team of maniacal Coasties.

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Passports Restaurant

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and Ed Collard’s House Doctors Handyman Repair Services

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check out Jungle’s website here

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Mamie’s Kitchen’s Muffin Tops has signed on to the Farm Bar and Grille Good Morning Gloucester Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Tournament!

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Check out the delectable dishes from Mamie’s Kitchen here

Gloucester Daily Times : City gets no bidders for I-4, C-2 site

http://m.gloucestertimes.com/GDT/pm_105601/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=e7O6O70e

They didn’t get any bids for development here, yet the "Citizens for Gloucester Harbor" group says that there are a ton of marine industrial uses on the waterfront.

Well then, why aren’t they all scurrying to put bids in on I4-C2 and get rich with all their ideas?

http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com

Old Rocky Neck School Class circa 1914 ??? From Bill Hubbard

Hi, Joey,
Here’s another puzzle maybe some of your readers may have the answer to.  The attachment is a picture of the class from the old one room schoolhouse on Rocky Neck. 

My uncle, Eber Dahlmer has been identified as the boy farthest left in the back row with the big smile on his face.  Next to him has been identified as the late Harry A. Wheeler, a lifelong Rockynecker.  Capt. John A. Dahlmer’s family settled on Rocky Neck on arrival from Michigan in 1914.  Eber would have been ten years old then, Ronald 11 and Margaret 9.  I would guess the picture was taken about that time.
I wonder if anyone can ID any of the others. 

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