Posts Tagged ‘lobster’
Dream Car
Now here is a cure for the minivan blues–the “Crushstation,” a lobster-themed monster truck. Hell yeah. Check out the video.
Read MoreIf You’re Looking for Crustacean Porn
Then look no further than the new “Summer Issue” of New York magazine, which describes a lobster-sex-tape viewing session with yours truly. If you find that the least bit interesting, you’re probably a prime candidate for putting The Secret Life of Lobsters on your summer reading list. Here’s what the Associated Press had to say: In passages…
Read MoreLobster Trivia
In honor of “National Lobster Day,” here’s some lobster trivia from The Secret Life of Lobsters, as printed in a publication called “Out & About in Downeast Maine”: • Maine fishermen catch and sell between 55 million and 60 million pounds of lobster a year. • It takes the average lobster from five to seven years…
Read MoreA Civilized Crustacean
I snapped this photo over the weekend. I was visiting my friends at the Red Hook Lobster Pound in Brooklyn to be interviewed for a radio documentary about The Secret Life of Lobsters. I thought I’d show the reporter the power of the lobster’s crusher claw, so I encouraged this lobster to squeeze a plastic…
Read MoreFish Motorcycles
The International Seafood Show is surreal. A bizarro combo of sea critters and commerce, it takes place at the cavernous Boston Convention Center, which I visited last week while in town to be interviewed for a documentary film at the nearby New England Aquarium. On display was this machine called the “Shrimpster.” I’m having a hard time…
Read MoreThe Rites of Spring
I know spring is here when my former boss, lobsterman Bruce Fernald of Little Cranberry Island, Maine, loads his pickup truck with this many traps. His wife Barb snapped this photo the other day, just as Bruce was heading for the harbor to begin the year’s fishing. Bruce and Barb are both real-life characters depicted…
Read MoreFashion Trend Update
The paparazzi have spotted a new fashion trend this week when recording artist Lady Gaga and author Trevor Corson were both photographed wearing lobsters on their heads. Gaga sported hers as she emerged from her limousine to attend her after-show party in London, and Corson was apparently wearing his when he emerged from his Brooklyn…
Read MoreIn Vegas, Anything Goes, Except …
This sign was brought to my attention by the ever-vigilant experts at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, after they spotted it on the blog Oddly Specific. The blogger comments: “Something has to be illegal in Nevada.” The post reads: This is one of those things I had to look up, just to make…
Read MoreLobster Side Dish: Bricks, or Oysters?
Bricks are not delicious. Oysters are delicious. Both are heavy. Heaviness is what you need for a lobster trap to sink to the bottom of the sea and stay there. When I worked as a lobsterboat crewman in Maine, numerous winter days were spent outfitting new traps with heavy bricks. But the lobstermen pictured above, who are…
Read MoreMerry Christmas, from Karen and Daisy
Karen: So what’s this big news, then? Daisy: We’ve been given our parts in the nativity play. And I’m the lobster. Karen: The lobster? Daisy: Yeah! Karen: In the nativity play? Daisy: Yeah, first lobster. Karen: There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus? Daisy: Duh. —Love Actually
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