RunnerBliss: @SFriedScientist are you w/ Duke trawlers? Went out on them w/ Orrin Pilkey (his son was HS classmate), also to Shackleford Banks 1 hour ago
By Southern Fried Scientist, on September 1st, 2010
We are watching Hurricane Earl very closely. Myself, Amy, and William all live within spitting distance of predicted landfall and the storm is expected to pass us early Friday morning.
Follow the #BFTEarl hashtag on twitter for our coverage of the storm as it passes NC.
Mandatory Evacuations are ordered for most of the barrier islands:
Mandatory evacuation for guests of Currituck Outer Banks effective as of 10:00 am on 9-2-10.
Voluntary evacuation in Tyrrell Co. effective immediately.
Mandatory evacuation of everyone on Hatteras Island effective immediately.
Mandatory evacuation of Dare Co. visitors.
Mandatory evacuation for all visitors and residents in South Nags Head effective immediately.
Mandatory evacuation for all visitors and residents of Ocracoke.
Mandatory evacuation for everyone on Emerald isle and all of Bogue Banks in Carteret Co. effective 5:00 am 9-2-10.
Mandatory evacuation in Pine Knoll Shores effective immediately.
By Southern Fried Scientist, on September 2nd, 2010
Chapter 4 of the classic Moby Dick by Herman Melville, summarized in verse. Read along with us and discuss this chapter or the book as a whole in the comments.
The Counterpain
He awoke to find the great harpooner’s
arm draped over him. The patchwork tattoos
became his comfort. Not wanting to rouse
the sleeping Queequeq, Ishmael remained still.
As a child, his mother would punish him
by forcing him to bed while still daylight.
With no such embargo, he nudged the man
awake. The cannibal rose and began
to dress, as if unaccustomed to clothes
and unused to strange customs, manners which
seem sensible to us. He soaps his face,
and smooths his beard with a harpoon’s steel edge.
Chapter 3 of the classic Moby Dick by Herman Melville, summarized in verse. Read along with us and discuss this chapter or the book as a whole in the comments.
The Spouter-Inn
The tavern heaves as if it were a sloop
battered by too many waves, too much drink,
as three years afloat celebrates the shore.
But revelry is for those coming in,
not those going out. Ishmael wants only
a bed. None can be had but one, to share
with the harpooner, a man peddling
in shrunken heads by lamplight and darkness.
Hesitantly, he enters the room, lies
until there stands Queequeg, wrapped in tattoos,
ax in hand, startled but sober. Ishmael,
and the harpooner, will share fouler sheets.
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