LOBSTER POUNDINGS

COMPILED BY MILES BERRY

True Story

When I was nine years old in 1960, I spent most of my summer trying to catch a lobster on a handline baited with clams. After several weeks of frustrating near misses, I finally managed to land the beast. Was it a “short”? All I know is that my mom cooked it and I ate it for dinner.

—Tim Sample

Speed Dating

In the 2015 dystopian movie The Lobster, the main character, David (Colin Farrell), loses his wife to another man and is sent to a hotel where he has forty-five days to find another partner. If not? He’ll be turned into an animal of his own choosing, which is—you guessed it—a lobster.

Butterfly Effect

The origin story of the 1978 hit song “Rock Lobster” by the B-52’s takes place not in Maine, but in Georgia. Band member Rick Schneider told People in a 2018 interview:

“I went to this disco in Atlanta called 2001 and they had no money for a light show I guess, so they had slides of puppies and babies and hot dogs and lobsters on a grill. And I thought, ‘Rock lobster! Rock