Showing posts with label New England. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New England. Show all posts

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Northeast Crippler?

A big winter storm is tracking directly towards TCD's northeast bureau. Official weather statement below:

Blizzard Warning
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
451 PM EST SAT DEC 25 2010

...DANGEROUS WINTER STORM HEADED FOR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND SUNDAY
NIGHT INTO MONDAY...

.LOW PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES WILL BE
INTENSIFYING OFF THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST SUNDAY MORNING. THE
STORM WILL THEN STRENGTHEN FURTHER INTO A MAJOR STORM AS IT MOVES
JUST SOUTHEAST OF NANTUCKET AND CAPE COD MONDAY MORNING. BLIZZARD
CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND.
THE STORM WILL PULL AWAY FROM THE REGION MONDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT
BUT STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE COAST.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Sunday Funday?

Is the Universe's 18th most dangerous city poised for the type of white stuff that didn't contribute to this year's FBI ranking on Sunday?



I am ready for winter.

Monday, September 6, 2010

New England's Highest

Peaks: Katahdin, Washington, Mansfield, Greylock, Frissell, Jerimoth.

States: Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut

Readers: Connect New England states to their high points and win something at some point in the future after we monetize this thing and Phil determines prizes.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Best Tacos by State, NYC North

After extensive personal research, I present to you the best tacos in each state of the New York-New England region. Yes, that region. The results and data supporting them are infallible.

New York - The state's best taco is made in the world's greatest city (and will be even when NYC and LI secede from the rest of the debacle). Cabrito's fish taco (Carmine Street in the West Village) is the ciudad's numero uno.

Connecticut - Thousands of people drive past Connecticut's best taco everyday and hardly notice it, so I don't have a problem keeping the name of this tasty joint in my current hometown a secret. What you need to know to get there is simple, though: get off I95 by the Ikea in the Have, go to the black truck on the South side of the highway near the harbor, and order the El Pasero. Boom goes the dynamite.

Rhode Island - Um. They make good pizza at Al Fiorno's?

Massachusetts - Although few good things come from Mass, Anna's Taqueria gets it done. According to one source: "Anna's Taqueria is the best and everyone will agree. If they don't, then they are wrong." Truth.

Vermont - Not only is Tacos Tacos the best taco locale of that name (the T-squared on Nantucket, of different ownership, couldn't even win the battle for last in Mass), but this spot on Route 100 in Ludlow also features the best tacos in Vermont. And the best nachos. And the best burrito. This is pretty much a mandatory stop for me when in state.

New Hampshire - I discovered this place entirely by accident on a long, cold and dark February night in 2002 on an even longer, colder and darker drive back to Maine from a trip that included stops in Jay Peak, Middlebury and Montreal with TCD fans "Vinny" and "Dwayne." J O B S. Margarita Grille. NH Route 302. Smack dab in the middle of the Whites.

Maine - Trick question. Maine's taco is technically the lobster roll. Perhaps the most significant psychological question of any lifetime is: what would you choose if faced with the tragedy of only being able to eat either a fresh pesque taco or a Maine lobster roll for the rest of your life? Deep thoughts. Anyway, the location of the best lobster roll in Maine is a highly, highly contentious subject. Personally, I think I make a damn good one when in state. Although this constitutes as cheating, the best lobster rolls in Maine can be found at Town Landing Market in Falmouth and Fat Boys in Brunswick.

All COMMENTS to the contrary will be considered by the author to be completely erroneous.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Blue + Red = Green

Members of the notorious gangs the Bloods and the Crips have allegedly put aside decades of differences and are now collaborating on drug deals because C.R.E.A.M. TAKE THE MONEY DOLLA DOLLA BILLZ Y'ALL. The key takeaway from the WSJ article reporting the truce is the revelation that New England has 640 gangs. What!?!?