Since the post this morning about our new shirts, we’ve been getting emails asking us why we would make a shirt for washashores. We also noticed during the casting call that some washashores shied away from admitting their status as if they were ashamed of it. We figure it is time to clear this up.

Being a washashore is not a bad thing.

It seems that some people equate being a washashore with being a tourist. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Washashores are people that were born somewhere else but choose to live year round on Cape Cod, they are not tourists. There seems to be this idea floating around that a washashore can never be a “real” Cape Codder. This could not be further from the truth.

Washashores are most certainly “real” Cape Codders.

Think about it for a second, a washashore doesn’t end up on Cape Cod by chance. They don’t live here because it happens to be where they were born. Washashores live here because they made a conscious decision to make Cape Cod their home. You have to respect that.

Or think about it this way. Forward thinking, intelligent people don’t judge a person because of how they were born, (e.g. their sexual preference, race, etc.) So why would we judge people by where they were born? It makes no sense. The bottom line is that if you think you are better than someone else, or more entitled, simply because of where you were born, then you are a grade A asshole.

This is why we made a shirt for washashores. The Real Cape embraces you. Washashores should be just as proud of being washashores as natives are of being natives. Hug a washashore today! Better yet CLICK HERE and buy one a shirt!

P.S. I am a native, I was born on Cape Cod, so don’t try to tell me I am biased.

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CC.com – Following the April canonization of St. John Paul II, Fall River Diocesan Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha announced that Pope John Paul II High School will now be called St. John Paul II High School.

Bishop da Cunha made this announcement at a Mass for all Cape Cod Catholic School students today.

“As a school community, we were pleased and proud to celebrate the Church’s recognition of John Paul II’s sainthood. I thank Bishop da Cunha for advancing this name change and making it official,” said St. John Paul II High School Head of School Christopher W. Keavy.

The graduating class of 2015 has elected to retain the name Pope John Paul II High School for their diplomas as the final graduating class with this name.

Big mistake by the 2015 class to ignore my man John Paul getting canonized. Huge. You have to make the switch immediately. For one thing saints trump popes all day long, when given a choice between a king and a prince you have to choose king, that’s just good business.

Also, don’t they realize that to become a saint someone has to have a direct line to god. This means JP is in the big guys ear. Do you really want to disrespect this guy? Right now John Paul is probably sitting next to god in the Heaven cafeteria being like, “Hey God, can you believe these little pricks disrespecting me and ignoring your will? What is this, meatloaf?”

Tread lightly, PJP II class of 2015. Last thing you want is a pissed off saint on your hands.

P.S. For some reason I picture John Paul as a grumpy old Jew saint that complains about his food. I know it makes no sense, so please don’t email me a 487 word diatribe about sainthood.

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The people have spoken. Everyone kept saying understated and simple so that’s what we went with. Simple lettering and all the O’s have been replaced with the Cape and Islands logo. So classy you can wear them in Osterville. Nothing better than Cape Cod gear for Real Cape Codders.

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CapeCodOnline.com – A 32-year-old homeless woman was ordered held in lieu of $1,000 bail Tuesday after pleading not guilty to hitting a man in the elbow with a metal baseball bat, according to Falmouth District Court records.

Danielle C. Somers was found sleeping on a mattress inside a storage unit on Village Common Drive in Falmouth and arrested after a man called police late Monday to report the alleged assault, according to a Falmouth police report.

According to the report, the man accused Somers of swinging a baseball bat at him during an argument about blankets he believed were his. Refusing to give him the blankets, Somers chased him away with a baseball bat, swinging repeatedly and making contact with his elbow.

When police opened the door to the storage unit, a man suspected of shoplifting appeared. A knife was removed from his pocket, but after realizing there were no outstanding warrants for his arrest, police released the man and returned his knife.

Somers, who was wanted on four default warrants, told officers she feared for her safety when the alleged victim came to her storage unit and only swung the baseball bat to scare him away.

Holy crap I can’t even keep all the homeless people in this story straight. Is the guy with the knife the same guy that called? It’s a different guy right? Talk about a confusing situation. Opening that storage locker was like when you turn over a log and 87 bugs go scurrying off in different directions. I would have just started macing people.

How about the poor bastards that rented the locker next to this one though? They thought they were innocently renting a place to store some furniture they won’t need for a while and they end up in the middle of a Homeless Melrose Place right next door to Heather “Storage” Locklear.

Nothing worse than being afraid to go pick up your mattress because you might wake Heather up from her afternoon nap and get smacked in the head with her Louisville Slugger. Not even Dr. Michael Mancini can live with that kind of drama.

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This podcast is something we are going to try to do every few weeks from now on. This first one was a special occasion. Danchez, Insane Tony, Fat Kid, Niko and Billy team up to interview a bunch of people that were waiting to audition for The Real Cape reality show at The Beach House.

In case you weren’t there, it was a long wait… and the bar was open… hilarity ensues.

UPDATE: The embed isn’t working for phones, we are working on that, until then if you are on a phone CLICK HERE

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capecodonline.com – G. Brennan – In a shocking development, the town has been told $500,000 appropriated in the state budget for a synthetic turf field at Sandwich High School is on the chopping block.

“This is baffling,” Town Manager George “Bud” Dunham said.

The money was put into the budget by Senate President Therese Murray, D-Plymouth, for the Capt. Gerald F. DeConto Veterans Memorial Stadium. Murray added the earmark after voters in Sandwich rejected a Proposition 2½ capital exclusion that would have raised taxes for a year to pay for the turf.

DeConto, a Navy captain was killed in the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon.

The problem for the town is the turf is down, but Gov. Deval Patrick has targeted the money to make up a $329 million state budget shortfall.

Massachusetts everybody! This is your government.

Looks like we’ve achieved an entirely new level of ineptitude with this one folks. And we wonder where everyone in this country gets the idea that it’s OK to spend money they don’t have. This just proves that old saying…

“One in the hand is better than two in the bush”.

Which is especially true if you are talking about those recently busted Asian Rub and Tugs.

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The theme was “Christmas Magic” so we decided to go retro. We built a replica of The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour Bus, it ended up a little more Scooby Doo than Beatles, but given the fact that we were way too hung over to start it the Friday after The Wailers show and had to build it in one day in the pouring rain I’d say we’re lucky the thing didn’t fall apart after 100 yards.

We were pulled by Pat from Dale Tree and can’t thank him enough for putting up with us, believe me when I tell you that is no simple task. We recruited our pals from the bad ass band Boombasnap, the ladies from The Brazen Belles, our official photographer benshotme and some of the rest of the crew and in true Real Cape fashion we raged our faces off and danced our way through the entire parade route. No trophies, but plenty of fun, The Upper Cape Spartans float won, and deservedly so, the thing was bad ass, congrats to them.

Hopefully Ben will get a photo gallery up soon, but here’s a few videos. This is from a spectators perspective…

Post by Boombasnap Live Shows.

Here’s one from after the parade, you’d think Boombasnap would stop playing while we drove around in traffic to get back to the Mall, but that would be very Un-Boomba and very Un-Real Cape so we kept the party going through town…

Post by Danielle Fino.

Ben should be by soon with a gallery but here’s a few amateur shots…

Just another day on The Real Cape.

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