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A couple weeks ago, my wife and I went to Gloucester, MA with her parents, brother, etc, for an epic week hanging on the beach, reading some good books, freezing my balls off in the water, and eating some of the best sea creatures i’ve ever had. If you appreciate eating the finer things from the sea, i highly recommend a trip out there.

Here is a photo journal of the trip. Some of the photo quality falls in the ‘questionable’ department, but, ya know, like, deal with it.

The view from the second floor. Not bad.

Pasta with lump crab meat, peas, cream, hot pepper

Grilled, sausage stuffed calamari

Woodmans - creator of the fried clam. Simply amazing

Steamed lobster. The claws were larger than my fist

oysters, horseradish. Again, fist sized

Steamer clams, drawn butter. New England classic

Proper lobster roll, grilled split top bun, amazing

Kobe carpachio, preserved lemon, garlic aioli

Fenway Park, $7.25 beer, section 30 grandstands, Wakefield's 11th win

cant get enough. Blue Point oysters, horseradish

Came back to my office from lunch and this greeted me:

Nice typo!

Man, did the sight of that free poster tube get me excited. Inside, rested the latest offering from one Mr. Aaron Draplin at the DDC out in Portland – a fairly large, career-spanning poster with everything he’s done. Holy crap! Over 1,000 (1,112 to be exact) bits and pieces. 

I pulled the poster out, and got it up on the wall STAT. If you notice, it’s hanging on a piece of black foam core i’ve been using to block the window into my office. Orange – 1, Black – 0.

You can get into the real filth of my office if you like, here:

Sorry for the blurred out spots. That stuff is the future, you see, and it would really mess you up bad if you saw it now.

Here’s it up close and fishy:

Thank Gary indeed.

With a light rain falling outside, and the season at Stowe about 24 hours from being over, i’ve been flipping channels aggressively this afternoon. I came across a re-broadcast of the Glastonbury Music festival from 2008, and it reminded me of one of the best disses in music history, and quite possibly all time. 

When Jay-Z was announced as a headliner to the all-rock festival, Oasis frontman, and half of the volatile sibling duo that makes the band so awesome, Noel Gallagher lashed out on Jay, claiming there was no room for hip-hop at Glastonbury. The following video is Jay opening his set, and lashing back at Gallagher. Prop guitar, way off-key vocals and a huge shit-eating grin. One of Brooklyn’s finest indeed.

We interrupt this Wednesday’s With Bill. Murray. to bring you the greatest import from Sweden. Ever. This product (literally) shit’s all over your hip Ikea bed frame.

And this is NOT a joke. Head on over to Think Geek to pick up your very own tube of this revolutionary product. 

You’re welcome.

My birthday is this Saturday. No big deal really. 31 – who cares about me turning 31? Apparently, the crew down at American Icon does. Rog, Andy and Rob sent me a nice box of custom shirts today, and man, they are a thing of beauty. This gets filed under ’smart design’ for sure.

Never has one word said so much