Saturday, October 11, 2008

Broken News: thanks to my true friends

Sometimes in life you can lose focus of the important things.  The day to day workload, the meaningless distractions and the inexplicable popularity of Paris Hilton are enough to drive even the best of us to do stupid stuff.  It has even hit our little hamlet of Passamaquoddy.  You may have noticed a lack of updates here in town.  That is directly associated with a sudden lack of momentum, a desire to fall asleep at Sand Dollar Ella’s, and of course salmon spawning.

It is also these times when you find out who are your true friends.  This past week I was cornered by my friends and we got into deep discussions.  Even as the town Doc, I have been drowning myself in my own elixirs.

So with the guidance of many of my friends, we spent some serious fun time in Passamaquoddy’s best place for dealing with tough issues, right between Chumshop Earth and Soarin’ Over Passamaquoddy, the often overlooked…

Only a few people even acknowledge the existence of Interventions.  They pass it on the way to the Biergarten or The Sleaze (with Nemo and Friends).  In fact, other than a Lou Mongello, Jeff Pepper “Passamaquoddy Scene Investigation” discussion, it doesn’t even get much press.  And that PSI segment only lasted about 4 minutes as one or both of them passed out.

Interventions is divided up into many different sections, each designed to discuss differing techniques for dealing with different issues.  In one section Bill Nye the Science Guy explains the physic of falling off a barstool.  That’s called “Fall Down, go Boom” with Bill Nye the Science Guy”.  Concurrent with her new blogsite, Lori has created a section of Interventions where all problems are addressed with M&Ms. That is of course “We wants the redhead and the green M&Ms”.  Greg, the other DOC also has his own section but I have never seen it open.  There is always a little note “Back in 10 minutes. Out to WORLD OF OCEAN” or “Off to see CRUSTACEAN COMMAND” or even “Kickin’ it with the Kickin’ Krabaret, back in an hour”. He’s never there, but he does keep his website up to date. The Passamaquoddy Obsessive Compulsive blog.

In the end, I feel much better and have to thank all my friends.  This time I found my salvation in the Snowy Tundra section of Interventions.  They have a little show with puppets and they explain through song that most problems can be solved by running.

“Hey Mr Grumpy Gills
You know what you gotta do when life gets you down?
Just keep running
Just keep running
Just keep running running running
What do we do we run, run, run
OH HO HO How I love to run
When you WAAAAAANNTTT to run you want to run”

I know this is a “Main Street Gazette” length post so I will cut it short.  Besides, I need a drink.  See you at Interventions after?

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Saturday, October 4, 2008

Classic Albums Revisited: When You fish upon my car

Long before these kids today roamed around Passamaquoddy with their portable Walkman cassette players, we used to listen to albums for entertainment.  Fred Appleton recently came across an old classic while rummaging through his LP collection…

“Pinochle” was of course the classic story of the little wooden fishing boy that is swallowed by a whale and is only able to escape when he learns various fishing knots. The film was a hit and revitalized the act of using crickets as bait.  To this day, the songs have been carved into the Passamaquoddy mindset…

  • HI-Diddle-Dee-Dee (an angler’s life for me)
  • Give a fish a whistle
  • I’ve got no 6 lb fishing lines

and of course the most famous

  • When you fish upon my car…

This song has been a major part of our very fabric with appearances in many shows and parades.  Most famously, it is featured in the “Fishes” nighttime celebration.

Here are the lyrics as transcribed by Fred Appleton:

When you fish upon my car
Cast your lure out deep and far
Anything your hook may find
Will come to you

So bring along your minnow pail
and soon we’ll fill your fishing well
When you fish upon my car
As anglers do

Earthworms are kind
They bring to those who fish
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing

Like a Starfish from sea
Fate steps in and feeds you through
When you fish upon my car
Your dreams come true

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Thursday, October 2, 2008

Passamaquoddy’s Newest Investment

As many of you know, we in Passamaquoddy have been looking for a replacement for our ferry boat “Bad Breathless”.  Of course, the “Bad Breathless” was sunk when it got into a battle with the electric water pageant’s pink octopus float.  We’ve gone back and forth on replacing it until we recently found the above boat available on eBay.  It was obviously on sale and the numbers were very inviting.  We’re not sure if it’ll float but boy did we get a deal.  This was originally the “Long Island Southern access ferry” that has since been replaced.  Most likely, we will be renaming the ship to possibly “Bad Breathless 2″ or even “More Bad Breathless” as the “Long Island Southern Access Ferry” is quite a lot to remember.

In other news, we’ve had more problems with tools inside the Passamaquoddy barn.  It seems the barn cat and her kittens have broken many of them while they did typical kitten playfulness. Two anchors, three rakes and one hoe, and one powersaw were broken and knocked down. 

Finally, our webmaster has recently learned the best way to get your website noticed is to include keywords or phrases as “tags” at the bottom of the article.

(tags) “Long Island Southern Access Ferry”, “LISA Ferry” “Those Barn Cats”, “Broke Hoe Down” (tags)

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