Lobster Bisque, Please!

I'm just curious as to when we, as a general human body, decided that it was okay to eat these things:But even if they look like minor aliens from a sci-fi movie, I know that I will consume a great deal of them if I end up at Maine--solely due to the vaulted, picturesque New England I have going on in my head. Because that's what they do in Maine. Eat rare blue lobste...

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INCH OR CENTIMETER: HOW I SPEND THE DAY AT THE LOTIONS SHOP

I play this game at the lotions shop called “Inch or Centimeter.” It is about as fun as it sounds. Basically what happens is this: I walk around the shop, which is exactly the size of an oversized Twister mat, and try to see which product has been moved—this is especially fun to play after a customer has left the store. If the product has been moved, I move it back to its original place. THISISSOFUN! I try to repeat to myself as I make the rounds—SO-INCREDIBLY-FUN-LUNCH-WILL-BE-HERE-ANY-MINUTE!!! Unfortunately...

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Things I Know About Narwhals Thanks to Wikipedia*

1. "Narwhal" in olden days language meant "corpse" 2. You can call a narwhal "moon whale" and not get the cold shoulder3. Narwhals are like beluga whales, which are friendly whales that have an entire song dedicated to them thanks to Raffi4. Olden days people often passed narwhal horns (totally legit) off as unicorn horns (fantastical appendage)5. The purpose of the horns is widely debated; some scientists maintain that they are used to aid echolocation, others say it is for sparring, still others say it is for showing off, like how colonial-era...

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