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Served Friday Feb 10 – Tuesday Feb 14

On Valentine’s Day – Each dinner comes with a rose!

Manny Simoes photo

There will be a Bowl painting event to benefit the Open Door on Saturday, February 11, from 4 to 6, at Trinity Congregational Church, 70 Middle Street Gloucester.  The bowls are made and donated by local potters, painted by volunteers like you and sold at the “Empty Bowl Meal” in May.  There is no charge but there will a good-will collection of canned goods or money for the Open Door.

Paul’s Memorial Bench

Paul’s Memorial Bench was installed today By the DPW. They did a great job.

Thanks go out to Ward 2 City Councilor Melissa Cox for pointing me the in the right direction, Mark Cole of the DPW for making it an easy process and Mount Pleasant Memorials for doing such a great job on the Plaque.

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/935678-196/witnesses-nashua-man-paul-frontiero-knifed-to.html

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

I have to say that the magic that is Rocky Neck never ceases to amaze.  I’ve never been on a whale watch or seen a whale up close and personal; but I did today in Smiths Cove on Rocky Neck.  This fellow cruised up and down Rocky Neck, obviously a little disoriented and not able to find his way back out again.  Debbie and Peter Schradieck were visiting Madfish Wharf and spotted him first and came to find me to come see him.  Wendie Demuth was there too so we all ran down to the Marine Railways and photographed him from the end of the railways pier.  Peter estimated his length to be between 25-30′ and that he was a fin whale.  I’ve also included a photo from the internet of a beached fin whale, which has the same bumpy head feature you can see on this whale, and the fin which you can see in the last photo of the series, although it could also be his tail.   Hopefully that won’t be the fate of this one.  Peter did call the Coast Guard and alert them of his presence in Smiths Cove.

The fin whale is the second largest animal in the world after the blue whale, the fastest swimming of all the large whales (sometimes called the greyhound of the seas) and the commonest of the large baleen whales.  This one certainly was fast, as he would come up in one spot on the cove and a minute later be coming up again at a spot a good distance away, so quickly that at first we thought there were two of them.  I hope he can find his way out, as he should be on his way to warmer waters now, and there won’t be any food for him in Smiths Cove.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Sunset and full moon photos Tues. evening 2-7-12
–Len Burgess

Came across this Easter egg while walking around Annisquam.  Looks like even the Easter Bunny is confused by this springlike weather, or maybe he’s trying to move in on Paul’s ArtRock niche.

E.J. Lefavour

“Nothing is exactly as it seems, nor is it otherwise”
Alan Watts  (1915-1973)
Born in Britain, philosopher and theologian Alan Watts moved to the US in the thirties, attending Episcopal seminary while at the same time receiving training in Zen Buddhism. He served briefly as a priest but left the church to pursue a career as a teacher and lecturer. His bestselling 1957 book The Way of  Zen was one of more than two dozen he wrote on spirituality, religion and consciousness. Many of his brilliant lectures are available on the web and as an Iphone app. This seemingly nonsensical quote is in the nature of a koan or parable, perhaps the best known of which is “What is the sound of one hand clapping.” These thought provoking sayings are meant to encourage lateral thinking. The origins of the Watts quote go back to the Surangama Sutra, probably written 1,400 years ago, and may refer to our inability to truly comprehend reality.

Greg Bover

Gregory R. Bover
VP Operations, Project Manager
C. B. Fisk, Inc
978 283 1909
www.cbfisk.com

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/

Annisquam River

The Gloucester Dog Park is about to enter phase two of construction as a result of several recent gifts that are being matched by the Dusky Foundation.

Artist, BJ Wayne, a local figurative, animal and landscape painter, has just donated a 24” by 36” Giclee,  “Sierra,” valued at $350, together with an oil painting of an Australian Shepherd valued at $900 to be auctioned.

Sierra

Aussie

The Auction Committee is now accepting bids on these paintings, so if you would like to add one of these beautiful paintings to your collection, please make a bid, ASAP, by calling Christopher Lewis at 978-879-9283

To Learn more about BJ Wayne and her work please visit http://www.bjwayne.com. To Stay in the know and donate to the dog park http://www.gloucesterdogpark.org/.

~Alicia