ENBB's New England Cultural Corner

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!