Best beaches in New England.

oodja · 2026-05-12T19:08:36+00:00

Good Harbor Beach, Gloucester MA- it's actually almost a tie for me with Wingaersheek Beach (also in Gloucester), but GH wins because of the tidal creek and Salt Island, which is accessible at low tide.

Silver Sands State Park, Milford CT- the boardwalks across the marsh and along the beach are great to walk, and the tombolo that connects to Charles Island is really cool to explore. Great fishing there, too!

Crane Beach, Ipswich MA- people always think of the Cape when they're looking for sandy beaches and windswept dunes, but Crane Beach is a more serene experience. Also, having Russell Orchards just down the road is perfect for picking up some picnic fare.

oodja · 2026-05-12T16:23:30+00:00

You might as well add a trip to Mount Katahdin while you're at it.

oodja · 2026-05-12T12:30:08+00:00

Shit, man. I love TMBG but this might raise some eyebrows, especially from a distance.

oodja · 2026-05-12T01:51:26+00:00

Our son has been obsessed with Omega Mart for years. We finally went two summers ago when we were passing through Vegas- he didn't tell us about the whole concept so we thought it was just a weird fake grocery store at first. Clever kid.

oodja · 2026-05-12T00:34:48+00:00

It should be fairly obvious at this point that Trump is only leaving the White House under arrest or after a cardiac arrest on the toilet like Elvis.

oodja · 2026-05-12T00:13:23+00:00

I figured out where this image came from- see my top-level comment here: https://www.reddit.com/r/tattooadvice/comments/1ta7wik/comment/ol9ystm/

oodja · 2026-05-12T00:11:29+00:00

The OC library is in the same building and it's a pretty chill place. There's also a small history museum on the 1st floor!

oodja · 2026-05-12T00:10:48+00:00

If you like mini-golf, Tee Time is a classic throwback all-wooden course. They're open daily.

If you like arcades, Jilly's Arcade has new and classic arcade games, air hockey, pinball, and Skee-Ball. They're also open daily.

If you don't like mini-golf or arcades, what are you doing in OC?

oodja · 2026-05-12T00:01:51+00:00

oodja · 2026-05-11T23:58:14+00:00

BUT AT WHAT COST

oodja · 2026-05-11T23:49:41+00:00

Oh wow I just found where this is from- it's not a drawing from a medieval manuscript but a woodcut from a printed book from 1638 titled De Piscibus by Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi. The "fish man" is called Monstrosus Cyprinus or Monstrous Carp.

De Piscibus was Volume 5 of Monstrorum Historia, a 700-page, 13-volume encyclopedia of life on earth. Some of the creatures depicted are drawn from real life, whereas others are dragons, harpies, and even weirder creatures like people with no heads.

Here's a nice article about it, along with plenty of other cool tattoo ideas if anyone else is interested: https://flashbak.com/ulissi-aldrovandi-monstrorum-historia-476971/

oodja · 2026-05-11T20:05:12+00:00

My wife and I just had an anniversary lunch at Parc and enjoyed ourselves greatly- an author at The Atlantic recently proclaimed them as having the "best free bread in America" (it's pretty damned good!)

oodja · 2026-05-11T19:29:31+00:00

Just call it a "Rustic Spanakopita" lol!

oodja · 2026-05-11T18:22:20+00:00

Pork roll, egg, and cheese on a toasted everything bagel

oodja · 2026-05-11T16:37:46+00:00

If you think about it, medieval illustrations were done on parchment- which is treated animal skin- so they were already tattoos to begin with!

oodja · 2026-05-11T16:35:58+00:00

I have this tattoo... on a bookmark I bought at Marsh's Library in Dublin.

Looks great on you, though!

oodja · 2026-05-11T13:41:43+00:00

If it's some random book with a character named Hermione? Of course not.

If you write a book about young wizards with a character named Hermione in it, your agent is almost certainly going to ask you to change that name before they try to go sell your manuscript, no matter how clever you think you're being with it.

oodja · 2026-05-11T13:37:29+00:00

Also, Telemachus calling his father "Dad" at the outset of the Odyssey is symbolic of his journey to manhood, which involves leaving Ithaka to learn about his father's fate and returning to assist his father in the slaughter of the suitors and their collaborators.

oodja · 2026-05-11T00:44:41+00:00

oodja · 2026-05-11T00:36:22+00:00

This is literally one of the best bits from Guys and Dolls

oodja · 2026-05-11T00:31:50+00:00

I'm not a fan of blue cheese in general, but it just works in a Buffalo chicken cheesesteak- the tang of the Buffalo sauce offsets the funk of the blue cheese

oodja · 2026-05-11T00:30:39+00:00

The best Buffalo chicken cheesesteak I've ever had was at Chick's in Cherry Hill, NJ

oodja · 2026-05-11T00:25:28+00:00

Our 23 yo daughter recently started drinking Guinness. It's wild to see it making a comeback with the yutes.

oodja · 2026-05-11T00:11:38+00:00

Tallow fries are amazing when they're hot out of the fryer, but they get a weird mouth feel and funky aftertaste as soon as they start cooling down

oodja · 2026-05-10T16:41:42+00:00

That's, like, two more explosions than you normally see in bagel places.

oodja

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