ENBB's New England Cultural Corner

Erica, is it true that you can't get a Boston Bun in Boston??

as a lifelong bostonian, i feel qualified to note that i have never heard of that thing.

Well hello dere!

Like Mr. Call All Destroyer I have neither heard of nor seen a Boston Bun in my life. They look pretty good though. Would try.

You should probably add CAD to the thread title since he may be more qualified than I to answer NE related questions although I am more than happy to try/assist.

Any others?

What do I look like, a board admin? Anyway...

Is it true that McDonalds will sell you a Lobster Roll up there? Do they call it a McLobster Roll??

Hmmmm . . . I haven't seen lobster rolls at McDonalds but to be fair, I don't go there very often. The internet tells me that they were, in fact, a seasonal menu item available in some parts of NE and eastern Canada.

It's apparently called the McLobster Sandwich:

http://www.gunaxin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/mclobster-sign-218x300.jpg

There are so many places where you can get good lobster rolls that I'd be a little nervous about getting on at McDs but would probably try anyway out of curiosity.

Do you know about Shamrock Shakes? Those might be of interest to you.

Also, I like how the "Cultural" Corner has been about fast food so far.

yeah the lobster roll gets advertised as a seasonal/limited item. but it is such a delicate and wonderful creation that it deserves better than a bastardized mcd's edition.

poster ☺☻☺☻come on ppl now smile on u brother☺☻☺☻, can you recommend somewhere that is good for lunch in the hynes/prudential center vicinity?

how much u lookin to spend?

x-post - Yeah, your office where you can eat the frozen meal I bought you yesterday.

can you recommend somewhere that is good for lunch in the hynes/prudential center vicinity?

assuming you forgo the frozen meal, hit the Pru food court or head over to Newbury and try Bosstone Pizza

He works in the Pru and I work directly across from it so we've hit the food crt numerous times. Have not been to Bosstone Pizza though - am intrigued!

it used to be a divey pizza place with awesome slices; now it is apparently a Trading Spaces victim, hopefully still with awesome slices

huh - will have to investigate at some point

that place has damn good sicilian slices iirc. also there is an upper crust on newbury now.

i wish the garden of eden was still open--more of a walk but amazing sandwiches.

I miss the Deli Haus personally. I would totally go there for lunch regularly if it were still around. RIP DH.

Pato - you can ask more q at any point btw.

the carte blancheness of that offer is alarming, kbp qs can be downright deviant.

you are probably right although I'm pretty sure I can handle whatever KBP might throw my way

estela is just scared of the HARD HITTING QUESTIONS!!

Anyway, back on track: when are the Hartford Whalers coming back to the NHL? They had the BEST 1970s graphic design in a sporting team's logo ever.

ummm probably never. hartford is not a major sports (or even second-tier-nhl-level) city. everyone in ct is either a boston or nyc sports loyalist and the nhl has forgotten that it's a regional league.

Yeah but...the logo and uniforms! It's much better than that old rubbish that Bruins rock up in.

Glad CAD jumped in cause I had nothing for this one. However, I just checked and those were indeed some amazing uniforms.

watch y'self kbp the bruins uniforms are classicer than classic.

btw old-school vancouver canucks is probably the high point of the design yr talking about:

http://rumorsandrants.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/luongo1.jpg

Canucks retro design is long played out, especially with their current uniforms!

Let me know when you stop talking about hockey.

is that a symbol of a canuck? it looks like a whale to me

a smiling whale

this is cghs most popular thread in a while

Let's move into the world of art: Best Wahlberg? (aka NKOTB or Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch?)

Nice - going straight to Boston's finest contributors to the art world.

This is a tough one for me because Donnie was my favorite NKOTB but I also like M. Wahlberg! I will have to think on this one.

Also:

http://images67.imikimi.com/image/images_full/135238067.gif

I made that for my boo Donnie.

Yeah despite my preteen love for D. Marky Mark kind of wins this one hands down.

(I still have not seen the Happening. Killer trees!)

I'm definetly in the Marky Mark camp. "Good Vibrations" is a bangin' tune and he's been in great movies like The Departed. And The Happening, let's not forget The Happening.

Deleting my grammar mistakes has totally thrown off the continuity of this thread!!

I was v confused for a second there.

Important question: is there a Boston Market inside a Boston Market? If so, does Xzibit eat there all the time?

fyi folks the canucks logo is a stylized 'c'

and i gotta go w/mark on the wahlberg front.

What is the best film that is set mostly in New England??

the whale, sadly, will never resurface in the nhl. partly because they played in a mall. some, however, still mourn them.

meanwhile what can you, king boy pato, tell us about NICK HORVATH

Hartford was ahead of its time. Didn't they turn the old Montreal Forum into a mall?

According to Nick Horvath's Wikipedia entry, he played for the Adelaide 36ers which I certainly will rep him for that. However, he left for the South Dragons, which makes him the worst person alive.

~~~***~~~INTERMISSION~~~***~~~

Now that Australia's NBL is PROBABLY dead, King Boy Pato, will rank THE TOP TEAM TEAMS that have played in Australia's premier basketball competition.

1. ADELAIDE 36ERS

Back before the SANFL reduced to second league status by those wankers from Melbourne, there was only one team for South Australians. No, it wasn't the local shitty cricket team. It was straight outta Apollo Stadium then THE CLIPSAL POWERHOUSE with the razzle dazzle in blue, red and gold headed up by The Chairman of the Boooards, Mark Davis! I might have only been a year old when the 36ers won their first NBL Championship but I grew up hearing the stories of how the Super Sixers lit up Apollo Stadium, led by a man called Ken Cole who coached the team in between snorting coke. Unfortunately, when we won that trio of turn-of-the-century championships, we had a slightly less exciting coach: Phil Smyth.

"Famous fans include television presenter Grant Denyer, and former World Number 1 Tennis Player Lleyton Hewitt."

2. SOUTH EAST MELBOURNE MAGIC

For the name alone. Excessively geographically precise AND a lazy-as-you-like BA ripoff nickname.

3. EASTSIDE SPECTERS

Apparently the name was RACIST.

4. GOLD COAST COUGARS

Now when you talk about Gold Coast Cougars, it's 30 and 40 something women with excessively fake tans??

5. GEELONG SUPERCATS

This shows you how popular and awesome and great basketball was in Australia. Aussie Rules had to do with merely "Cats" but the hoops heroes upped the ante to infinity with SUPERCATS!!

6. PERTH WILDCATS

I grudging give mad respect to the bros out west. They're not the Melbourne Tigers or Sydney Kings and they helped up keep the Mitsubishi Trophy away from the big smoke.

7. WEST SYDNEY RAZORBACKS

Would be higher if it wasn't for the "Sydney Spirit" DEBACLE!!

8. SINGAPORE SLINGERS

Can you believe that Singapore wasn't into third-rate basketball???

9. WOLLONGONG HAWKS

If the new NBL doesn't have them in, it won't be the NBL. PUTTING IT BACK IN OUR COMMUNITY, YO.

10. TOWNSVILLE CROCODILES

You weren't expecting the Canberra Cannons, were you?

~~~***~~~BACK TO OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION~~~***~~~

Is it true that white people would get behind the Celtics again if they could get a Larry Bird-esque star (ie: someone WHITE)?

did u miss when the celtics sold out every home game for two years?

^^^

Ticket holders could have been black, hispanic, asian or icelandic.

lol have you been to boston?

OK, I was clutching at straws.

Why isn't Rhode Island just Rhode Island? Did they get too big for their boots or what?

pato where are the tigers on yr godforsaken list???

also i am the owner of a geelong supercats bag. el, oh, el.

I think you've lost me somewhere.

what is a better state NH or VT

what is a better school amherst or umass

what is a better place to kayak RI or ME

what is worse place to get gay married VT or CT

what is a neutral ground for drunk partygoers in burlington

VT
Amherst
ME
I'd guess VT if only because CT is closer to NYC and can better leverage NYC resources; in terms of scenery VT would win in a cakewalk
Don't know Burlington at all

correct
one of my stepsisters goes 2 amherst - so umasss
RI
trick qn u cant get gay married because jesus h8s it
mexican restaurant near one of the ski resorts best enchiladas around

~ Live free or die
~ U.S. News & World Report would say amherst but I will go with umass because amherst doesn't have a song about it (at least not to my knowledge)
~ I am partial to RI
~ CT
~ The last time I was in Burlington I was 10 and definitely not drunk so no idea.

The World's Largest Arcade is in NH. NH > VT.

(the best part about this is that I'm not even from NE)

pato where are the tigers on yr godforsaken list???

also i am the owner of a geelong supercats bag. el, oh, el.

No Tigers because a) Andrew Gaze is boring and b) Mark Bradtke is the worst person alive for double-crossing South Australia.

PUT THAT SUPERCATS BAG ON EBAY = $$$$$

How do you pronounce "Clam Chowder"??

Delicious.

If you're wondering if I say "chowdah" then no, I do not. Then again, I'm not originally from NE so I don't have an accent. I don't say "jimmies" either. They'll always be sprinkles to me.

Why are they caled "jimmies"?? That's insanity!!

guys jimmies is secretly racist.

So the multi-colored ones are called sprinkles, it's only the brown ones that called jimmies. And here's a little info I found about the racist claim:

The Boston Globe investigated the origin of jimmies last winter after a reader inquired about a rumor that the term originally was racist - the idea being that some people refer only to chocolate ones as jimmies, and rainbow ones as sprinkles. Perhaps, the reader surmised, the word descended from Jim Crow.

The Globe found no evidence of this, but did cite a commentary in 1986 on National Public Radio by the late Boston poet John Ciardi, who claimed: "From the time I was able to run to the local ice cream store clutching my first nickel, which must have been around 1922, no ice cream cone was worth having unless it was liberally sprinkled with jimmies."

Ciardi, the Globe said, "dismissed Just Born as claim-jumpers looking to trademark someone else's sweet inspiration." His jimmies had come first.

Another theory on the origin of the name:

Back in the 1930s, the Just Born candy company of Bethlehem produced a topping called chocolate grains. The man who ran the machine that made these chocolate grains was named Jimmy Bartholomew.

"Thus, his product became known as jimmies," said Ross Born, the chief executive officer. He was told this story by his grandfather and company founder, Sam Born. Just Born registered jimmies as its trademark, and continued producing jimmies until the mid-1960s - which is why the name was so popular here.

The trademark expired and soon after, Just Born stopped making jimmies.

Will we ever know the truth?

oh cool, maybe it's not racist.

I gotta be honest, more and more it's 1 pWN 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1: this board is retardo montalban (RIP).

― schatzi maus (ENBB), Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:12 PM (15 minutes ago)

That ILE and 77 are def the ones I check/post on most often.

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talk about your gratitude

Unlocked but I want the following:

a) Erica to sign her allegiance to The Cape in blood
b) An in-depth discussion on the brutalist masterpiece that is Boston City Hall
c) FRIED CLAMS

http://neveryetmelted.com/wp-images/BostonCityHall2.jpg

1. I pledge allegiance to the cape . . .

2. Having been inside Boston City Hall, I can attest that this monstrosity is as awful on the inside as it is out the outside. It looks like a prison. I am not a fan of this particular architectural style.

3. FRIED CLAMS are deeeeee-licious. In fact, just last weekend I traveled up the coast to sample some of these babies. Here is the photographic evidence:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/FriedClams.jpg

It is important, however, that one orders fried clam strips rather than fired whole bellied clams. The former are amazing while the latter are slimy, gross and blech. I mean I'm sure there are some fans out there but most ppl I know also seem to prefer the strips.

I also sampled something called a clam cake which looked something like this:

http://www.roadfood.com/photos/9469.jpg

It was basically just a ball of fried dough with some clam bits in it. Interesting but I don't know that I'd order one again.

1. Yay!
2. Boo! (Brutalism is a monument to the post-war dream!)
3. GOD DAMN, those fried clam strips and chips look good. Might eat the clam cake too.

Wait, so are all New Englanders racist or just most?

good one!!!

ehh

just the racist ones

me no rikey!!!!

Just found out my old work manager from my brief Philly days is now working in Boston!!

He's a Kiwi and his favourite band ever is The Police!!

If I meet him, I will be sure to say hello!

I remember one time we were co-writing an AMAZING tour guide on Asian destinations and he came up to my desk all excited because I was supposed to be working on that upcoming Saturday and he thought I could get a lot done as there wouldn't be any regular work or calls. Unfortunately, I forgot to tell him that I had traded my Saturday shift to a girl who wanted the extra money and he looked a bit crushed.

My mate who was sitting at the desk next to me, sent me an e-mail with the subject "I think he looks disappointed!!".

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. you crushed his poor heart.

And I ended up going to the King of Prussia mall instead.

Wait - why were you in Philly? I don't think I know anything about this. KoP mall! I have been there.

I was working there on a sort of internship!! Everyone knows about it!!

I am in the dark about a lot of things Phil.

Sorry, Erica!!

Now I want fried clams.

And clam cakes too.

good stuff

yes to fried clams

but strips not whole bellies those are gross

here is a gud foto

http://37.media.tumblr.com/68ad7c5db575de9584a292469c534ed5/tumblr_n6gtdfoI9H1qjxp7ko1_500.jpg

http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsereeMEKl1qznwvxo1_1280.jpg

so proud

omg

new england is ok

I am going to Bar Harbor in a few weeks, any tips?

kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. then everything will be all right.

just make sure to go around saying bar harbor in a very thick bad maine accent and keep eating lobster rolls as long as u eat the rolls they cant get you

dont look stephen king in the eye

follow these simple rules and u will have a wicked good time for sure

keep eating lobster rolls keep eating lobster rolls keep eating lobster rolls keep eating lobster rolls keep eating lobster rolls keep eating lobster rolls keep eating lobster rolls keep eating lobster rolls

yes.

Bar Harbor is very pretty. It's a little or maybe a lot touristy iirc but still nice. That whole area is gorgeous.

I am overjoyed for this unexpected but very welcome thread revive.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9lrds2tgw1ru4jsh.png

"freelance"

arse 'n' all.

I admire New England, but I don't love it yet. It's too pretty in a way?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TxV4dkRi8M

I admire New England, but I don't love it yet. It's too pretty in a way?

― Kornblud (admrl), Monday, June 9, 2014 9:25 AM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey man check out worcester if u dont want pretty

I admire New England, but I don't love it yet. It's too pretty in a way?

― Kornblud (admrl), Monday, June 9, 2014 9:25 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

new england is beautiful but there are plenty of ugly shitholes here

hahab yea xp

or springfield, or new bedford, or lynn, or chelsea, or holyoke, or or or or or

also bar harbor is awesome. spend as much time as possible in acadia, that whole park is utterly spectacular. wife & i hiked 3 or 4 long, full days there and barely saw any 2 trails that looked similar. and we barely made a dent in the park. such a diverse landscape. cliff trails, rocky beach trails, birch trails, pine trails, lake perimeter trails, mountain trails, dense deciduous trails. it was really amazing.

bar harbor had an amazing vegan restaurant, eden cafe, but yelp says it's closed. bummer, it was really cool and the owners were awesome people who make all kinds of cool art in the off season.

or springfield, or new bedford, or lynn, or chelsea, or holyoke, or or or or or

― marcos, Monday, June 9, 2014 10:19 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

basically any urban area in southern new england

Chelsea sorta grew on me when I worked there but yes to all of those listed.

otm. maine has some depressed shitholes too if am not mistaken.

new england's prettiness is primarily restricted to cute smaller towns and rural areas. there some exceptions, boston obviously has a few attractive neighborhoods

both vermont and maines larger cities are quite nice imo, there are def some shitholes in n new england, i sit not far from one as we speak, but the hit ratio is much higher up here generally, you dont get anything like an entire state covered in vinyl siding (r.i.)

lol

lets not even talk abt conn no one want to claim conn

I miss the halcyon days of when mentioning Conn. made me think of all those wacky land boundaries and not horrible tragedies.

xp: Oh come on, Connecticut has... Mohegan Sun...

connecticut is easily one of the worst states in the world no offense anyone

new haven can be pretty cool imo

yale's museums are great, lots of good cheap food, great pizza

oh im def gonna visit new haven as soon as i can now

my dad now resides in new Bedford should I not visit

also CT has some pretty rural areas, sherman is a cute little town iirc that felt pretty similar to the berkshire towns in MA like stockbridge and great barrington. went to wedding there a few years ago

omg stop trying to make connecticut happen

ha, i feel like i have to justify it, if only for myself. my wife's folks live there and there is a 30% chance we will end up there too

http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/22/02/62/4729992/3/628x471.jpg

lmao

you should totally visit New Bedford IMO

window is short but I will take that on board

if I've seen Gloucester does yr answer change? cos I've seen Gloucester twice and that was once and a bit too many tbph

well, kind of? New Bedford is like a seedier version of Gloucester with worse restaurants and a pretty cool whaling museum

otm it's way seedy

and CT sucks but I do want to try New Haven pizza.

hmmm I feel like I could find a closer whaling museum were that all, yknow

tho I guess I can see why he moved, given the facts

Gloucester can be pretty seedy too though. Someone in a bar there once stole my shoes.

I like it even though I'm still bitter about the shoe incident.

lmaoo

yeah gloucester has a nice balance between historic gloucester and being mad real, new bedford is more just mad real

you cld always just take a day trip to the cape too

New England is a mystery to me!

do people wear tricorns instead of fedoras there?

come on up curtis well show u around

they wear... triblysssss xp

http://i.imgur.com/0E9ySvf.jpg

lol

yep

haha

If you go to conn drive the Merritt Parkway

Everything else kinda sucks imo

yeah the merrit owns

yea it's a good drive. was kind of a miracle when we started driving the merritt instead of 95 to visit my in-laws in fairfield. that stretch of 95 is one of my top 3 worst highways in the country

As someone who lives within the Louisiana Purchase, parkways are such a novelty to me.

I think if you do 95 entering from NY there's a cool bridge you drive across. But yeah that's an awful stretch

i gotta get down to the whaling museum but i have been programmed to avoid the entire rt. 24/495 triangle

Do they call it a parkway because there are areas every few miles where you can park

That's amazing

It's not an interstate, it's not a Route 66... it's a limited-access highway that goes through people's backyards.

yea no trucks too

bqe > grand central pkwy > whitstone bridge > hutchinson pkwy > merritt pkwy > wilber cross pkwy > almost to hartford

the route of gods

Do they call it a parkway because there are areas every few miles where you can park

― 龜, Monday, June 9, 2014 11:39 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

theyre called that cause robert moses built the frst ones under the auspices of the parks department iirc

Oh that scoundrel

i know right

yea no trucks too

― marcos, Monday, June 9, 2014 11:40 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is key

Do they call it a parkway because there are areas every few miles where you can park

― 龜, Monday, June 9, 2014 11:39 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are also gas stations scattered throughout the merritt where you can pull over and park & get some gas

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OMdJNkh-6is/T4GnLiW4N2I/AAAAAAAAS0M/gvdEfM6UL1o/s1600/IMG_4826.JPG

I mean for cute

also they are very twisty w no shoulder and people drive 20mph over the speed limit so it kinda like a video game except if you die you really die

The pizza in new haven is okay I never actually went to sals or pepes the storefronts I would always just eat the free stuff they delivered

Modern's is good only because they call it apizza instead of pizza

BAR had good mashed potato pizza before it became a thing I think plus they brew their own beer

My favorite actually was brick oven pizza which I think is a chain

Don't go to Louis Lunch it's a scam

Now there's a shake shack (that got closed for some kind of infestation or something) and a chipotle and I bet a billion other chains haha suck it new haven

the merritt also has my fav tree

http://hooniverse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Fake-Trees-650x487.jpg

the taconic has to win the whiteknuckle award tho, recall driving on that shit during a thunderstorm my lord

http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20140404/shake-shack-in-new-haven-closed-after-worker-exhibits-flu-like-symptoms-to-re-open-saturday

http://i.imgur.com/uQxtNGG.png

the best conn pizza is in mystic tho

sally's is sublime. apparently they are trying to sell the place though, pretty sad.

BAR definitely does not have the old world new haven italian charm but tbf their pizza is really good. beer is nothing special but it's nice enough.

somehow i have never been to the original pepe's, i've been to the fairfield one and it's great.

My favorite anecdote about new haven is this apocryphal story I heard there

That new haven and new york were both major ports back in the 19th century and were comparable

Then some law or something happened so they diverted all the ships to New York and not New Haven

If only this reg hadn't done that then New Haven would have been as big as New York today

It makes me smile because I'm like... aw that's sweet but don't kid yourselves

I just checked on google maps and Sally's has apizza in their name too. Apizza apizza apizza apizza

new haven also has a mamoun's falafel joint that it is open super late and has really cheap falafel and all kinds of cool rugs on the walls:

http://newhavenliving.com/imgs/media.images/1628/mamouns-falafel-restaurant-best-ethnic-2013-new-haven-living.jpg

hey how u doin lemme get a apizza

you pronounce it "a-beets" iirc

Lot of NH institutions are done

Yankee Doodle closed, Rudy's "moved"

lol lagoon wtf is up w/ that tree on the merritt xxxxp???

Enjoy your Cosi + Panera's + Chipotle + Potbelly New World Order, new haven

is it a huge fake tree? i may be confusing it with a large fake tree on the mass pike. or somewhere between CT and boston

its just a cool normal tree that maybe also sends out cellular signals nbd keep driving

xxp tbf those places are everywhere

i find myself in CT (the Lymes) 6x a year or so bcz what's left of my family is there.

i was at a minor-league baseball game im Norwich and the mascot slapped me on the head.

watch out for ticks!

I was friends with someone from Vermont who had moved down to Arkansas. She was amazed by the huge gas and fast-food signs on the interstate that she had seen on the way down, and wondered if any of us had ever actually seen them get lowered telescopically to change the light bulbs.

http://i.imgur.com/BEtWLfb.png

Kinda hated having to reveal the truth on that one.

co-worker: Ticks in the conference room.
ILXor: Yeah, I'd like to suck on some of that!
co-worker: o_O

<ILXor goes to conference room, sees it's actual Lyme-disease carrying ticks and not minor-league baseball game tickets>

ILXor: Noooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe if you're from a family of whalers, you think everything works like a telescope.

lol xp

aw vt

also re: pizza sally's and pepe's use COAL-fired ovens for their pizza. not even wood-fired. kind of crazy

all the super old school places use coal grimaldis and lombardis in ny, mustve been the thing at the time

There's also a mamouns right around NYU or at least there was when I was in school. It was cheap and good and now I want falafel.

The Merrit is my favorite road to drive. So twisty!

I'm glad my facebook is working out for you all.

baleen on this thread

ive always thought pepe's & sallys were overrated

this is my fav ct pizza, note also coal-fired, but its really abt the sauce -- http://hartford.firstandlasttavern.com/about-us

mamouns is great b/c the falafel is priced accordingly. it's like $3.50. i went had lunch there with some friends before my wedding. it was like $2.80 back then. it can feel kind of hard nowadays to find falafel for less than $5. some places even charge like $8 bucks, fuckin ripoff

The Mamouns on macdougal and cream cheese bagels from bagels on the square is basically how I eat for less than $10 a day in NYC

or springfield, or new bedford, or lynn, or chelsea, or holyoke, or or or or or

See now I like Holyoke. It's like, liminal. A lot of New England feels too, like, organized or something. Where is the weird?

new england is not about the weird, you have the rest of the country for that

btw check out this map the green parts are census blocks with zero residents, n maine is the least populated place east of the rockies (w texas maybe)

http://i.imgur.com/43FAR8c.jpg

new england is not about the weird, you have the rest of the country for that

Yeah I guess that's my point!

New England can be pretty weird, for example they sell homemade beef jerky at gas stations

This is more my style:
http://www.desertofmaine.com

i been there

northern vt has some pretty weird shit but its so vt you can hardly get worked up over it

haha

there's a desert . . . in maine?

its just some sand dunes iirc

Desert Dunes Disc Golf!
Click here For Details

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RSIFVReGBuA/TmLLO6mWxwI/AAAAAAAAAzk/6ycoOQOHGaw/s1600/Desert%2Bof%2BMaine.JPG

btw the volleyball hall of fame is in holyoke you know what its called the volleyhall

http://i.imgur.com/F7HH8X9.png

100% certain i mentioned that before on ilx but i just cant believe they did it

road trip to the volleyhall

http://sportsbra.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/top-gun-volleyball-maverick1.jpg

So what do you all like best about New England?

Probably how new it is

that is a golf course, not a desert

old houses, progressive politics, and um sailboats i guess

the ocean
the mountains
Providence
cute little towns
lobster rolls
the ocean
how pretty it is in the fall
old shit

oh yeah i forgot about lobster rolls and the fall, i dont really care abt sailboats tbh, i mean they are cool but theyre not really part of my life

hahahaha

i haven't had a lobster roll yet this year - that's gotta change soon

tbh i prefer a lobster w butter like 1000% over a lobster roll but i will eat a lobster roll if i have to

i like driving around back roads in vt listening to tunes zoning out to the tranquility

yeah that sounds good

I think I found some nice back roads near Putney the other day. And some BBQ.

The old stuff here is too old. How about like 50 year-old stuff?

Maine lobst w/ butter and lemon is pretty perfect

The fall is short, also

All the seasons seems short except for winter, which takes years apparently

yeah its the worst

yes

I like how cheap it is where I am. That's a great thing about New England. Living like a king!

I guess this wouldn't be true if I were in Boston.

I might go to Boston next Friday, for the first time, after living here a year.

being an actual king, the king of the northeast kingdom

yea the old houses are awesome, cool little towns, i like all the woods, nice combination of more densely populated areas with picturesque rural landscapes. lots of good farmers markets. i love how easily accessible everything is. liberal politics are nice too. basically everybody is liberal here. there is definitely some white conservatism and it's not the west coast or anything but it's nice to live in an overall progressive area. gay marriage in most (if not all?) states. since i work in academia it's also cool to have so many colleges and universities here, too. having the ocean nearby is nice too.

The fall is short, also

All the seasons seems short except for winter, which takes years apparently

― Kornblud (admrl), Monday, June 9, 2014 12:58 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea, fall is amazing in new england but really we're talking about 4-6 weeks here. same goes for spring. summer in new england is really nice but it's also short

BTW I found this dope shirt in China, almost bought it

http://i.imgur.com/VV9xsqh.jpg

being an actual king, the king of the northeast kingdom

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-9/s403x403/996829_506113122787604_1505451356_n.png

it's not the west coast or anything but it's nice to live in an overall progressive area.

― marcos, Monday, June 9, 2014 1:01 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

politically is like 1mx more progressive than the west coast! socially...

BTW I found this dope shirt in China, almost bought it

― 龜, Monday, June 9, 2014 1:04 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg why did u not

haha xp you totally should've bought that shirt

politically is like 1mx more progressive than the west coast! socially...

Depends where on the West Coast you mean. I moved here from CA and I find it a little politically stuffy at times. But maybe that varies throughout the Northeast, I dunno. I too work in academia but I prefer that stuff in small does, you know...it has it's place.

I do like New England, btw, I just still feel like I'm finding my way & looking for an "in"

Too many colleges = not a good thing, in my opinion, that's why I live a little ways away from where I work.

I moved here from CA and I find it a little politically stuffy at times. But maybe that varies throughout the Northeast, I dunno. I too work in academia but I prefer that stuff in small does, you know...it has it's place.

― Kornblud (admrl), Monday, June 9, 2014 1:09 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just like actual voter preferences mass is left of california

lighthouses!

I like the clouds here. And I like the summers and the lushness and the swimming holes. That stuff we didn't have in LA.

xp - ok sure

And I like the first snow a lot.

But snow in April? You've got to be fucking kidding me

dont move to northern vermont

http://img1.coastalliving.timeinc.net/sites/default/files/image/2011/09/Lighthouses/owls-head-lighthouse-l.jpg

Oh and the other day I looked at this house and it was pretty rad. That was one of those only in New England things

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/16-Wendell-Rd-Shutesbury-MA-01072/56987202_zpid//

xp - ok!

Moving to New England has also helped me appreciate that I don't love NYC all that much, which is helpful. It's nice for a visit, but I prefer Montreal.

cool ne architectural feature, good for looking out for yr husband coming home from the sea or just chillin

http://static2.bigstockphoto.com/thumbs/5/5/5/large2/5558891.jpg

Lighthouses are nice, sure, but what do you do with them?

i live for this shit

http://indul.ccio.co/gU/Bd/ia/255368241340219757SqBdSfIkc.jpg

maybe if my mother had ever had advance warning of the aul fella coming home from the sea my older brother would've been an only child I'd say

That house is AWESOME.

xp - you admire them, duh

My dad's neighborhood has a house with a widow's perch on it. Complete disregard for city's residential zoning rules, imo.

seriously, I don't think you're supposed to do this.

http://i.imgur.com/0E8UluV.png

nope, definitely not

I have lived very close to some body of water (usually the ocean) for all of my life with the exception of the two years I spend in England but there's a river there so that counts. When I was very small we lived in Key West and then Long Island/Fire Island. You can get to somewhere on the water within about 20 mins from most places in Boston. I feel most me by the water and would love to really live right near the ocean one day. Swimming in the ocean is one of my most favorite things. Anyway, this picture is going to be my daily calm from now on. I'm putting it here so I can come and look at it whenever I need to.

http://37.media.tumblr.com/2afe90c0ee6f32a3c59f29e2418047fd/tumblr_n0taf2KLGS1soyp8ao1_500.gif

awesome, beautiful gif ENBB! i agree that there are few things as wonderful as swimming in the ocean. i feel at peace and at the same time i am overwhelmed by its power, something about being immersed in this vast body of water is just really humbling? sounds kind of hippy-dippy but i am very hippy-dippy

v beautiful

i do wish though that the ocean in new england was just a little bit warmer, i love being near it but i find it hard to swim for very long b/c i get so cold. southern oceans i can spend hours in

http://38.media.tumblr.com/9f6b38f877e2706074eb9da4ed62af90/tumblr_n7aqjvJsXR1qd532so1_500.gif

And here we have a gif that combines two of my favorite things.

http://38.media.tumblr.com/46127b1032207c0804a8db44ad924df0/tumblr_msqhterKNt1ry46hlo1_500.gif

Where are the good beaches in New England?

And what are y'all's favorite swimming holes?

Also show me a good crab shack in Maine

http://www.watermansbeachlobster.com/

Thanks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_Beach

I saw a nice NE beach in a movie. I think it was in Rhode Island

xp

many incredible beaches on cape cod obvs

yea xp crane beach is gorgeous

don't go nantasket beach, i'm warning everybody here

i don't know a whole lot of swimming holes, in western mass there is a very nice one that is a short 5-10 minute walk from the montague book mill. the book mill is one of my favorite places in the world, no hyperbole. admrl you probably know of it already but it's a used bookstore built into an old mill building on this creek and there's a really good cafe with sandwiches and beer and coffee, plus a small art gallery and a record shop. it rules. it's kind of a perfect summer day to go to the book mill for lunch, browse for a while, and then do the short walk to the swimming hole and hang out there for a while.

Yes, I know it, though not the swimming hole!

I love the Book Mill but their book selection is pretty naff. I'm a reasonable bibliophile and have never found anything I want there. But it's a nice place to lunch/snack/work if you can find somewhere to sit.

I am into this weather though. I never lived anywhere with this sunny/humidity/thunderstorm cycle and that is cool. I like sitting on my porch and watching storms. It rains more in one day here than it does in an entire year in LA!

don't go nantasket beach, i'm warning everybody here

― marcos, Friday, June 20, 2014 9:30 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol I don't mind Nastasket. I've never been to go to the beach there but I kind of love cheesy beach/boardwalk towns every now and then for the people watching, arcades and ice cream. :)

oh yea they can be super fun. just walking by a long slew of greased-up older dudes in speedos w/ gold chains in beach chairs RIGHT ON THE BOARDWALK makes my ice cream not taste as good

another vote for crane, its just a beautiful place

Looks beautiful, sounds cold! Maybe I wait for a super hot day.

yea as i mentioned upthread i don't feel like there are any "warm" places to swim in the ocean in new england. on a super hot day i might go in for 5-10 minutes at crane.

=/

hey it's not that different in LA, right? the pacific is pretty cold iirc and when i went there everybody was wearing wetsuits

I dunno. I never went to the beach in LA

this time of year the water is p cold in mass but by the end if the summer is not bad imo

oh yea they can be super fun. just walking by a long slew of greased-up older dudes in speedos w/ gold chains in beach chairs RIGHT ON THE BOARDWALK makes my ice cream not taste as good

This is hilarious to me! Why do they do that? They all look like leather and you know they sit out there from 8:00 am to sundown every single warm day. It's a thing. I like to observe.

haha totally

This is beautiful.

http://31.media.tumblr.com/0c92f1eb63326d9111b5ead7980bcdba/tumblr_n7h6qwMZVD1rllm0xo1_500.jpg

And it makes me excited to go back to Arizona and see my best gal.

And this is hilarious.

http://38.media.tumblr.com/0a239a133e199a8625f115118abd550c/tumblr_n7jthnZrR61qewacoo1_500.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM

also

http://37.media.tumblr.com/0d25fec941761c99528bf882d4121d1b/tumblr_n7emw7Emy41sjcqg0o1_500.jpg

and finally, today's happy place

http://33.media.tumblr.com/19d7233c29288c3a4621451d858da678/tumblr_n5mbuq6uFo1qmnl72o1_500.jpg

I think that people would generally have a kinder view of the pigeon if they all looked like Lisa Frank creations. Also, LOOK AT THIS FUCKING FOR REAL NOT PHOTOSHOPPED PIGEON.

http://33.media.tumblr.com/9c8b8c509f432dc9c0e1af0afcb4e2c6/tumblr_mgxgi89K5c1r8x2ybo1_500.jpg

whoa!

Also wait look at this crazy-ass fabulous moth I found out about the other night:

http://33.media.tumblr.com/4fc91fc87705bccec8ccd3c8c7a5ae65/tumblr_mjpryzj11M1r7180yo3_1280.jpg

http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2rqk8Ip0y1r38hk2o1_400.jpg

>:~

It is a Rosy Maple Moth.

http://31.media.tumblr.com/99ed8b3fbe7367f698a655591306cfbc/tumblr_mp4rfvi9wG1rmrq5zo8_1280.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/VUTQOty.jpg

'Sup

aw dat's cute

(btw the rosy maple moth lives in the eastern parts of North America (so New Engalnd!) and the psychedelic pigeon lives in like Vietnam and other such tropical climes.)

I'm in Bar Harbor- it's beautiful! Tell me how to order and eat a lobster. What do I need to know?

I also ate in St. Johnsbury last night but did not see Neko Case or lagoon.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5543902

Lobster tomalley is the best part, eat that and discard the rest xp

lobster rolls imo

I do not know what to make of this picture where Kim appears to be flying out of the "hamps" in a private helicopter so that she can return to the city for strategic instagramming purposes. What a world.

http://37.media.tumblr.com/78db569b4b0c181c9c2b6b770bb28f6b/tumblr_n8cphx1cf91qiavcao1_r1_500.png

what a disaster for the hamps

hampsterdam?

my hamps
my hamps my hamps my hamps
my hamps my hamps my hamps
my lovely lady lamps

check it out

lol DJP

I grew up about 20 mins from The Hamptons and have NEVER heard anyone call it that but what do i know maybe it's a thing.

maybe "Hamps" is the dude next to her and immediately after the photo she shoved him out of the helicopter

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID35744/images/HAMP_money.jpg

http://38.media.tumblr.com/a1edf0ab729fb8550f033e4672bfc36c/tumblr_n7455pAWBo1ta83ebo1_400.gif

HUGE part of my childhood rite here:

http://www.peacefulmeadows.com/

the smell of manure & the taste of ice cream forever fused together in my sense-memory

Looks delicious!

http://37.media.tumblr.com/24ad389df093acbf878a7d3e0c058ff0/tumblr_n8uqcslTLL1qz6a4yo1_400.gif

whoa

how do u feel abt german popular music

some quality album covers if u gis 'volksmusik' or 'german beer drinking songs'

I also ate in St. Johnsbury last night but did not see Neko Case or lagoon.

― maybe/whatever/so what/boring (admrl), Friday, July 4, 2014 4:14 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

holy shit! (i was not there {did u at least see luis guzman})

shdve asked me for recommends, favs are tim-bir alley in littleton and parker pie co in west glover, and nothing in st j lol self pwn

miss lyndonville diner is dope in its own way

i had a killer breakfast at the miss lyndonville!

deep fried french toast

i was once on a flight from chicago to LA that luis guzman was on

http://oi60.tinypic.com/1zdw001.jpg

both

ILX running running thread

Happy November, E

http://i.imgur.com/aNyLSNZ.gif

As soon as I just saw this I knew it was going to be something this related. Still LOLing. :)

http://i.imgur.com/rIXo2WU.jpg

guess i'll pop the top on a 22 ouncer while I wait for my person to wake up

omg this is very sad and not responsible pug ownership :(

I have enlarged and inspected this photo since I last posted and I am fairly certain it is among the top 5 saddest things I've ever seen.

A fun site to read with Google Translation turned on.

31 olegt3 sent 44 days ago #
Dog sorry.

6 steepman posted 44 hours ago #
Why are you so much about the guy?

0 MAXIBON163 sent 43 days ago #
Pug and do not know?

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Yeah, there he is cast down like.

omg! Thank you for that. This is amazing. But still v v sad.

чет приуныл apparently means roughly "the castdown"

was that photo taken on pratt st. in allston or nah

Pug and do not know?