Point Pleasant Seafood Festival

[tommy]

anyone going? anyone been? this saturday methinks. sunday is the annual tube race.

[babyluck]

Yup, it's this Saturday. Here's the link. It says "Expect Extremely Large Crowds." I don't like crowds. And "crafts galore."

But if anyone tells us it's good, I will stop by -- coincidentally another friend's band is playing in Ocean Grove that night (the other friend's band gave me a reason to go to the Chickenbone Café).

[pnapoli]

babyluck: what's the name of this band?

[lamb]

I'm going down Friday night to see the Soul Cruisers at the Tiki Bar (if the Tiki Bar is still there after Isabel ), and then on to the Seafood Festival on Saturday a.m. for a lunch stop.

Wouldn't really recommend to make the trip down there just for the Seafood Festival. Really big crowds, lots of craft vendors, some food vendors. No place to sit to eat, restaurants along Arnold and side streets are packed.

Many of the craft vendors own stores along Arnold, and the food vendors are local too. You might want to come down off season and visit the stores and restaurants at your own leisure.

[tommy]

i figure the seafood festival will be a good excuse to go down and piss off to the tiki bar for a few hours on a saturday afternoon.

doesn't sound like it's all that good, though, does it. that's a shame. the tube race is sunday though, yeah? i recall that being a lot of fun. of course, i was about 8, but it seemed like the adults were having a blast.

Edited September 18, 2003 by tommy (log)

[babyluck]

babyluck: what's the name of this band? 

Gold Leaf & Big Daddy, aka GLBD. They're a comedy shtick band, very smart & fun (and deviant and dark). Hard to describe, really. This Saturday's event happens to be a birthday party at a friend's house in Ocean Grove, but they play once every 2-3 months at the Parkside Lounge in NYC. We're trying to convince them to start playing in NJ more because you can still smoke here, but they're not biting. Another friend of mine is the lead singer in a punk band called The Nils. They play mostly in Williamsburg & sometimes Manhattan.

Yeah, the seafood festival sounds pretty torturous. I was so hungry yesterday when I read it that I ignored the bad signs. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing you can just stop by at -- sounds like a parking nightmare. Tiki Bar sounds good but would the parking still be rotten because of the festival? I'm trying to meet up w/ my dad for his birthday and depending on the weather he'll be at the shore that day -- the seafood festival is right up his alley but the tiki bar even more so!