First of all, apologies for the limited posts the last few days, we will be back to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow, I’m sure you have all been worried sick. The reason for the delay is a good one, we have been finalizing everything for a big announcement.

On August second in the year of two thousand and fourteen The Real Cape cordially invites you to the first annual event heretofore known as The Real Cape Music Festival at the Cape Cod Fairgrounds. We will have a formal announcement later this week with the lineup of bands, and all of the other details. We have put together what we think is a perfect blend of local, regional and national music acts as well as live performance art, good food, wine, beer, beer, beer and a slew of other cool stuff. It’s a Real Cape party, you can rest assured there will be some crazy, cool shit going on.

You are probably asking yourself “What about Naukabout?” right? Well one of the biggest motivators for us to do this is that we received word a while back that Naukabout is not putting on a festival this year to focus on some big things they have in the works for the beer company. We love Naukabout and we want to thank them for all the time and energy they put into bringing a great music festival to Cape Cod all these years. We are super excited to keep the tradition alive and build on it in the future. So thank you Naukabout and we can’t wait to see what you have in store for Cape Cod!

So for now make sure you save the date, we will have the formal announcement ready with the details at the end of the week. This is the big one folks, stay tuned…

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What the hell did we just watch? If you need to watch a YouTube video to successfully make a drink with two ingredients than you can get right the fuck off this peninsula. This guy’s squid level is off of the freaking charts. Hey Mr. Bartender teacher guy, it’s not a “Cape Cod”, it’s a “Cape Codder”. Put down the captains hat and the life preserver, walk away slowly, and nobody gets hurt.

P.S. Put that thing in pint glass.

Update: Deja Vu! Morons are everywhere.

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MVGazette.com – A cornerstone of the Vineyard economy for many decades, the Goodale Construction Company has long mined for sand and gravel without restrictions inside its 100.2 acres in Oak Bluffs.

But what was once an isolated, sparsely populated region with little more than a sand pit in the middle is today a patchwork of residential homes, farm and conservation land.

And amid growing complaints from neighbors, the town is now asking Goodale’s to obtain a special permit for its operation.

In a letter to owner Jeremy T. Goodale two months ago, building inspector James E. Dunn ordered the company to apply for a permit from the zoning board of appeals in the next 60 days. He wrote that the part of the Goodale property dedicated to earth removal “has been substantially extended since the use became nonconforming.”

The residents claim that the Goodales closed off a former neighborhood access road and replaced it with a new road that hugs the southern edge of the pit, putting up a black chain-link fence where there had once been a wooden fence. They say the new access road was poorly engineered and that the fence allows sand and snow to blow through to the road.

“When I first moved here, I used to walk in the neighborhood with my friends and our babies,” said Melissa Harding, a Little Pond resident. “Then suddenly I couldn’t get to the bike path [on Barnes Road] because we couldn’t walk through the sand with our children.”

The primary concern among neighbors is the movement of the pit operations westward, toward their secluded, wooded neighborhood.

Until recently, a deep buffer of trees separated the sand and gravel operation from Little Pond homes. But the company has since removed many trees and is showing signs of further expansion, residents said this week.

“I am continuing to see expansion all the time, they are cutting trees, they are continuing to clear,” said Billie Burke, a Little Pond Road resident.

Mr. O’Flaherty, the attorney representing the Goodales, noted that the neighborhood was developed many years after the sand and gravel operation had begun.

“The folks came after, so there is this notion in the law of coming to a nuisance,” he said.

These stories never cease to amaze me. This company is chugging along just fine for 60 some odd years, stimulating the local economy and using the 100 acres of land that they OWN to do it. Then someone builds a few houses, a couple of babies get sand in their toes and voila! Now you need some permit that we just invented.

I think I’m going to build a house right next the MV building department and when I’m done I’ll tell them they need to tear their building down because it blocks my view. Actually from now on I’m just going to file a complaint with the state house every time anything negatively affects my life in any way whatsoever.

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CapeCodOnline.com – When the Alvin was commissioned 50 years ago today on Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s dock, the three-person submarine was one of the only ways human beings could see, much less explore, the ocean’s floor.

Today it’s one piece of an expanding scientific arsenal that includes autonomous robots and remote-controlled vehicles that can collect samples, draw maps and send back high-definition images of the ocean’s depths to the surface.

But the famed sub still has an important role to play in the future of exploration, WHOI scientists say. Despite the cost and inherent danger, mankind still wants to see its discoveries in person.

So today, on its 50th birthday, the Alvin will be in the Gulf of Mexico, doing what Alvin does best: carrying two scientists and a pilot thousands of meters below the surface of the water in search of discovery.

Well this just doesn’t seem right at all. Talk about feeling old. I still think of Alvin as a bright eyed, bushy tailed little sub discovering the Titanic. Turns out Alvin was 22 years old already by 1986. I guess when you think about it that is pretty impressive. When I was 22 my biggest accomplishment in life was successfully funneling 5 beers at once.

Most 22 year olds are still trying to discover how to get laid and Alvin was out discovering the Titanic? Talk about an over achiever, turns out his full name is Alvin Howser M.D.

Happy Birthday Alvin, I swear you don’t look a day over 40.

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