• Archive for May, 2009

    Hours/Happy Summer!

    Saturday, May 30th, 2009

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     A big shout to all the new visitors to the website. As school doesn’t let out until June 19th (Hobby is 8th grade social studies teacher), we won’t be open full time until June 20th.
    Bubba Dogs schedule for the upcoming weeks:

    May 30/31: Closed
    June 6/7: OPEN
    June 13/14: OPEN
    June 20: Skimmer Weekend in Sea Isle, JFK and the Promenade
    June 21: Full time at 59th & the Beach

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    We got some pub in the June “Best of the Shore” issue of Philadelphia Magazine. Image below is pic of actual Bubba Dogs that appear in the article (click image and scroll down halfway).

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    Fox Philly has begun their “Hot List” contest and once again we’ve been nominated for best hot dog. Many thanks to all that voted us number 1 in 2008 and we’d be most grateful if you would help us to repeat in 2009! Please click below and cast your vote:

    Vote for Bubba Dogs!!!

    Thanks again all and I look forward to seeing you all at the beach in Sea Isle this summer.

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    Happy summer all…

    Jack Johnson bio from Yahoo:
    Before Jack Johnson perfected his rock star ways, he was a champion surfer on the professional route, with a sponsorship with Quiksilver. It was a life that was second nature for the Hawaiian native, for he began chasing waves as a toddler, and by the time he was 17, he was an outstanding athlete on the pipeline. However, Johnson was also testing his other creative outlets — one being film and the other being music.It was during his college years as a film student at University of California at Santa Barbara when Johnson began writing songs. He and old mates Chris Malloy and Emmett Malloy produced a surf cinema documentary entitled Thicker Than Water, in turn spotlighting Johnson as a talented cinematographer as well as a burgeoning singer/songwriter. His peers in and around the surf circuit praised his work, and Thicker Than Water received props in Surfer magazine for Video of the Year during 2000. The follow-up surf flick The September Sessions also earned the Adobe Highlight Award at the ESPN Film Festival that same year.Still, Johnson steered away from a blossoming pro sports career and stuck with music — something that would soon earn him additional honors. G. Love & Special Sauce quickly took notice to Johnson’s lazy blues stylings, which also molded folk and hip-hop for a modern rock twist, and included Johnson on “Rodeo Clowns” from G. Love’s 1999 release Philadelphonic. Johnson’s four-track demo also caught the ears of Ben Harper’s right-hand man, J.P. Plunier. This was surely mind-blowing for Johnson, for Harper’s college rock mainstay Fight for Your Mind was one of his favorites and remained an inspiration. Aside from Plunier’s production work, Harper also added his lap steel guitar work on Johnson’s sultry debut, Brushfire Fairytales (Enjoy Records), in winter 2001.Two co-headlining tours followed throughout spring and summer 2002; Johnson’s sophomore effort, On and On, appeared in May 2003. Stateside dates with Harper followed in June and July. A third album, In Between Dreams arrived in March 2005, narrowly missing the top of the Billboard album chart in the process. Johnson earned two Brit Awards for In Between Dreams: International Male Solo Artist and International Breakthrough Act. In February, Johnson issued the soundtrack Curious George. Nielsen SoundScan sales topped at 163,000 copies in its first week of release, earning Johnson his first-ever number one album on Billboard’s Top 200 and Rock Albums charts. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, All Music Guide

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    Here’s a collaboration between G. Love (Philly/Avalon) and Jack Johnson.

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    Beautiful surf photography from around the world, compliments of The Surfer’s Path

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    Philly Mag/Fox Hot List/Moo’s Cow

    Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

    We got some pub in the June “Best of the Shore”

    issue of Philadelphia Magazine. Image below is

    pic of actual Bubba Dogs that appear in the article (click image

    and scroll down halfway).

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    Fox Philly has begun their “Hot List” contest and once again we’ve been nominated for best hot dog.  Many thanks to all that voted us number 1 in 2008 and we’d be most grateful if you would help us to repeat in 2009! Please click below and cast your vote:

    Vote for Bubba Dogs!!!

    Thanks again all and I look forward to seeing you all at the beach in Sea Isle this summer.

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    Friend Moo Lunney caught a cow this weekend off the beach at a secret spot in Sea Isle City. 42 inches, 30 lbs.

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    The Waterboys from the great surfing movie Riding Giants…

    Hottenstein/Kings of Leon

    Friday, May 15th, 2009

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    Opening Day is next Saturday, May 23rd.  See you all on 59th Street!

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    The coroner and county prosecutor spoke yesterday regarding the unfortunate death of Tracey Hottenstein during the weekend of this year’s polar plunge in Sea Isle. It seems that forensics indicate accidental death.  They are looking for any assistance that the public may have as details of the case are still fuzzy.

    According to the Prosecutor, an autopsy was conducted on February 16 by Dr. Margaret Prial, M.D., Forensic Pathologist from the Southern Regional Medical Examiner’s Office. Injuries were documented, which included several fractured ribs as well as abrasions and contusions of the abdomen and upper and lower extremities. The Medical Examiner has indicated that these injuries are consistent with a fall. There is no evidence that Ms. Hottenstein was the victim of a sexual assault.

    Charles Seibert, acting medical examiner, told the assembled guests that Hottenstein died from “hypothermia due to exposure with complicating acute alcohol intoxication.” It was below freezing that night with a wind-chill temperature of about 21 degrees and a water temperature near 35 degrees.

    When asked if the death was suspicious or if there were any persons of interest, Taylor repeated the medical examiner’s report Hottenstein’s death accidental and said “I wouldn’t characterize anyone as a person of interest.”

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    Saw these guys recently. They’re comprised of three brothers and a cousin. Lead singer Caleb Followill’s voice is a gift.  Great band…

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