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Archive for October 7th, 2009

Buy This Book

I don’t plug products on this blawg very often. However, my little sister wrote a book called Go Tweet Yourself: 365 Reasons Why Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and Other Social Networking Sites Suck.
Flip Twitter the bird.
Tell Facebook to f#@% off.
Lose it on LinkedIn.
Somewhere between the advent of Facebook and launching Twitter to the masses, the [...]

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Two storm fronts passed through today,I missed the first one as I was out of town but caught the second front. I was down Captain Joe’s & Sons Lobster dock when it hit. The anemometer hit 40 mph as the harbor whipped up into a frenzy.Wind whipped harbor!It’s getting windy!Now it’s very windy!Storm front passes by!Pablo!Good Harbor Beach as the front moves away!Footbridge looking towards Salt

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What Up Homie?

What Up Homie?, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Posted in What Up Homie? Tagged: What Up Homie?

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Things To Do- Action Inc Benefit At Gloucester Stage, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Posted in Things to do Tagged: Action Inc Benefit, Things to do

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From the sounds of the on-the-ground reports I am getting, it seems that United States v. Stevens is looking good for those of us on the side of Free Speech. Only Alito seems skeptical of the free speech arguments. Sotomayor seemed to strongly challenge the government’s position, and Scalia seemed to be reviving [...]

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Fresh Meat

A couple of days ago this fresh faced youngster came in the office looking for a job on a lobster boat.
Frank usually handles these requests because I hate to go to bat for an unknown and put them on a lobsterboat.  Inevitably about 20% of these guys off the street work out.  When they don’t [...]

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Some people in Clearview, WA are losing their minds over a cafe whose servers wear bikinis at work.
“These girls are basically stripping for tips,” pastor and organizer Shahram Hadian told a crowd of about a 100 Tuesday night at the Clearview Foursquare Church.
Speakers one after the other recounted experiences with bikini espresso [...]

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Will has a great eye for detail, or he has scoured the island with a fine-tooth comb!
His answer? “Where’s Zat?  Is it the culvert out by the Eastern Point lighthouse parking lot?  Allows seawater into the marshes.”
Congratulations, Will!
Try again next week, Folks! Thanks for playing!
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Its nice to see a reporter get the coverage right:
Municipal zoning bylaws may limit such uses, but cities and towns can’t completely prohibit them.
A municipality that does not provide certain locations within the community where adult uses may reasonably operate is essentially denying that form of free speech, and they could locate where non-adult businesses, [...]

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ennifer suggests a cute idea for Halloween. Natalia will go as Tinkerbell. Jennifer will be Wendy. I should be Peter Pan. This is appropriate for many reasons.
I laugh and say “yes, that sounds adorable.”
Then, I see Jennifer with a grin that seems just a tad over-sized.
“God damn [...]

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Marty Luster came to town last weekend with son and FOB Brian Luster from A Movable Bridge
Marty is a serious photographer from upstate New York.  We got to hang out at the dory raffle and then the next morning when I brought the boys to George’s for breakfast.  When Brain and Marty stopped down the [...]

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It was $7 and change.

Papa Gino’s Steak and Cheese Sub, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Posted in Eats Tagged: Papa Gino’s, Steak and Cheese Sub

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Remember you can subscribe to GMG Local Music by clicking on the link on the sidebar.There’s lots of good music in Gloucester this week. This post will be updated as info comes in.

Elliott’s
Latitude 43
Dog Bar
Rhumb Line
Capt. Carlo’s
WEDNESDAY OCT. 7

Latitude 43
Wednesday 8:30 pm – THE DAN [...]

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As I said yesterday 3-5 is very difficult to peg in the GMG Power Rankings because on any given day the three contributors could be in a different spot.
The number four spot goes to someone who has been with the blog for a long while and his contributions have been widely varied but ever constant.
Frank [...]

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Schooner Work Aboard The Roseway At The Gloucester Marine Railways, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Posted in Beautiful Industry, gloucester, Schooner Tagged: Gloucester Marine Railways, Roseway, Schooner

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