ENBB's New England Cultural Corner

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.