My View of Life on the Dock
Let’s hope the lobsters are led to these traps in much the same way once lobster season gets under way and these traps hit the water.
Rainbow Leading To Lobster Traps At The Dock, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Do you have a favorite sub shop? Coffee Shop? Restaurant? Spa? Florist? Hotel? If so it would be a great time to nominate them for this year’s North Shore Magazine’s Best Of the North Shore (BONS). Nominations are open!
It’s time to give those places around Gloucester that you find to go above and beyond their due!
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I picked up Snoop Maddie Mad at school yesterday and took her out for lunch. She rocked this lobster cap all day long because she’s pimp like that!
Snoop Maddie Mad is A Lobster!, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Setting Off In The Fog, originally uploaded by Thomas Philbrook.
Thomas Writes-
I took the liberty of adding the fog to this scene in Rockport’s little inner harbor. It makes for a more atmospheric picture.
Check out some of Sirin’s other illustrations here
i’ll have the lobster, please, originally uploaded by [SIRIN.THADA].
irritated lobster, originally uploaded by trappedinabay.
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Hi Joey, Here’s one. But I don’t like the color. It may be to light. Thanks, Elaine
I’m no fan of the Carribean lobster tails. They don’t have the same texture or taste as our North Atlantic lobster
Shrimp and Lobster Tails At The Naples Farmer Market, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
From The Island Institute via Monkeyfist at the Casco Bay Boaters Blog–
Lobstermen from all over the world will travel to Maine March 4-14 through the Lobstermen’s Exchange organized by the Maine Lobstermen’s Association (MLA).
Seven lobstermen from Tasmania, West Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and the Caribbean will meet with Maine lobstermen.
It begins with a Mid-coast Regional Meeting March 4 from 3:00 to 5:00 at the Maine Fishermen’s Forum at the Samoset Resort in Rockport. Exchange participants will spend 3 days at the forum networking with Maine fishermen. Afterwards, the Lobstermen’s Exchange will hit the road-visiting wharves, local businesses, attending community dinners and hosting talks in Downeast, Midcoast and southern Maine locations. Maine families are graciously providing home-stays and organizing community events for their international lobstermen counterparts.
Maine lobstermen are encouraged to come “talk shop” with their peers from overseas and share ideas on gear, bait-usage and how to weather the recession.
A Downeast regional meeting will be held at the Ellsworth City Hall from 2:00 to 4:00 on March 9 and a Southern regional meeting will be held at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute from 2:00 to 4:00 on March 12. Lobstermen are encouraged to attend.
The Lobstermen’s Exchange will host events in Cutler on March 7-8, Jonesport on March 8, Mount Desert Island area on March 8-9, Stonington on March 9-10, Vinalhaven on March 10-11, Phippsburg on March 11-12, Long Island and Portland on March 12-14. International lobstermen will attend the Boston Seafood Show on March 14.
“During these challenging times, it’s important to share information and hear about what’s working for lobstermen in other regions,” said Patrice McCarron, Executive Director of the MLA.
Funding for this project is provided by the Maine Sea Grant, Maine Fishermen’s Forum, Island Institute, Maine Research, Education and Development Fund and in-kind support from Maine’s fishing communities and the MLA.
For more information, call 207.967.4555 or email patrice@mainelobstermen.org. Find more dates and times at www.mainelobsterme.org.
Menage Gallery Lobster Sculpture, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Beautiful Industry- Lobster Traps Covered In Snow At The Dock, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
From The Dress Code we bounced down to David Cox’ Main Street Art and Antiques for my daily dose of David Cox’ hilarity and crazy stories. We talked about the blog and his assignments while The Bean commented on David’s filing system or lack thereof.
This vintage lobster platter can be had for a mere $28.
Gloucester Day With the Bean-Lobster Platter Find At Main Street Art and Antiques, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
After a bit the Bean was ready to move on-
David has a whole of cool stuff in his store- Main street Art and Antiques. This is one of them. Click the pic and select “all sizes” to see the full sized version
Carl B Friberg Lobstering Scene Painting At Main Steet Art And Antiques, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
It’s A David Bowie Art Haven Lobster Buoy!, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Brian has been adding to his tattoo collection with some impressive work. The lighthouse tattoo comes tomorrow.
Fishermen Tattoo Series- Brian Eastman Lobster Tattoo, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
From the Vegas.Com Blog Post By Nikki Neu
Read this absolutely rediculous blog post in which this broad talks about a lobster arcade game where you try to snatch a live lobster and if you do you get to have the restaurant cook it for you. She loves to eat lobster, has cooked them all her life but she suddenly has a heart when you throw the game part into the equation. It’s amazing to me how hypocritical these folks can be.
I obviously don’t have a problem with cooking, eating, or playing a game to win your lobster before you eat it. I just don’t see how it is she draws the line here and like many other bananaheads probably breaks a bagillion other peta rules daily.
Here is part of her blog post-
By Nikki Neu
VEGAS.com
Since before I can remember, I’ve been eating lobster.
When I was adopted from Korea at three months old and landed in Manhattan, my first meal off the plane was at the Palm Too restaurant, sitting on the table in my carrier, wishing I had teeth while my parents feasted on lobster. As soon as could, I joined my parents in what became our traditional Saturday night meal for years.
I love lobster.
So it caught me off guard when I was particularly disturbed and angered by a recent find. While doing research at the Fremont Street Experience, I stumbled upon a machine in the Las Vegas Club’s Tinoco’s Kitchen that looks much like the carnival or arcade game. It’s a vending machine with a claw at the top. You position the claw to descend down and grab the toy or stuffed animal so you can give it to your girlfriend.
Only this machine wasn’t filled with soft, fluffy stuffed animals, it was filled with water—and in the water—live lobsters.
I know how cooking a lobster works. Back in my culinary school days, I had the pleasure of dropping one of these live crustaceans in a pot of boiling water and you had to hold the pot cover to keep the lobster from escaping. Not a great visual, but necessary nonetheless. The difference between this game and cooking it in the kitchen would be in a kitchen, the ingredients and preparation are sacred and respected–not mocked.
But it was something about trivializing this process as part of a game, where guys would egg on their friend desperately trying to maneuver the joystick and position the claw so he could “win” a lobster. Cries of joy ring out as the poor, relatively helpless lobster gets jostled and grabbed by the claw—much the way the demolition crane would pick up an ‘86 Cutlass Supreme in a junkyard.
To read the rest of her hypocritical nonsensical lobster cruelty rant click this text
To watch some other bullshit in the world of trying to sell phoney baloney cruelty to animals watch the video interview I did with this salesman for the Crustastun- a machine designed to electrocute a lobster because the company has decided that they get to say what is the humane way to kill a lobster-
https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/bananahead/
Personally I’d prefer the jacuzzi style hot bath as opposed to the zapping by the electrocution style Crustastun.
Art Haven Lobster Buoys, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 