Well, mainly the guts.

Gloucester statue tells the USS Constitution and Plymouth Rock to suck it; wins our nod for the next Massachusetts quarter (or perhaps people in Essex County just have way more time on their hands than the rest of us and stuffed the online ballot).

Capt. Joe posts a photo of a Gloucester boat's submersible herring pump attachment, which:

[G]gets lowered into the water over the side of the boat to suck the herring out of the net and into the hold of the boat where the fish is refrigerated in cold water to keep it fresh and the best possible product it can be for packing.

GateHouse had been using YouTube to post news videos, but now the video service that lets teenagers post videos of themselves stomping on other teenagers has decided to pull Wicked Local's video of the Beverly Gloucester-sucks floats, not because of the eight-foot long spurting penis, but because one person in the video complained to YouTube. Of course, you realize, this means war:

Good Morning Gloucester makes the place seem really cool (if sometimes just a bit slimy).

Via Parlez Moi.

Seth Gitell considers the Beverly July Fourth parade and its Gloucester haterade and says it's just the latest proof that we're becoming a region divided by class:

Beantown Bloggery picked up on a Time magazine article in which 17 teenage girls, 4 times the number as the previous year, at Gloucester High School were found to have made a pregnancy pact and to want to raise their children together. The article explains:

Kathleen Valentine loves going to the state fish pier in Gloucester, especially on a sunny day when the fishing boats come in. She describes the scene, including the way the fishermen repair their nets:

Cleverest blog title of the day.