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	Consider the Lobster : And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace (kottke.org)
		Tense Present is one of the essays included in Consider the Lobster, a collection of nonfiction by Wallace due out on December 13th.
		Several of essays in CtL I'd read before, including the title essay from the Aug 2004 issue of Gourmet (which according to Gourmet EIC Ruth Reichl almost didn't make it into the magazine at all).
		Consider the Lobster : And Other Essays is one of the 35 books written about on kottke.org.
	www.kottke.org /05/12/consider-the-lobster (471 words)

	consider the lobster
		Lobsters are so alien to humans, it’s hard for us to imagine how they perceive the world.
		Lobsters carry their young for nine months and can live to be over 100 years old.
		Lobsters also take long-distance seasonal journeys and can cover 100 miles or more each year (the equivalent of a human walking from Maine to Florida) — assuming that they manage to avoid the millions of traps set along the coasts.
	www.guerrillanews.com /blogs/13558/consider_the_lobster?r=1 (639 words)

	Lobster Facts
		If you're dying to know if you're about to eat a male or female lobster, all you need to do is look behind the legs and before the swimmerets for a small pair of appendages on the underside of the lobster.
		Soft shell lobsters are much easier to eat, however tend to have less claw meat.
		When lobsters are cooked, all other pigments are masked except for the underlying red color, this is why all lobsters are the same color when you eat them.
	www.fiveislandslobster.com /web/facts.html (638 words)

	Candido Dot Com: Lobster Ethics
		Lobsters clearly act like they are in pain when being boiled, e.g., they thrash about and use their claws to push at the lid of the kettle.
		Lobsters have a very well developed tactile sense, and are very sensitive to changes in water temperature, which determine their migratory cycles.
		Wallace is pretty balanced in considering the philosophical implications of this fact, noting the counter-point that pain behavior is not the same as experiencing pain, i.e., having a conscious experience of pain.
	candido.com /2005/10/lobster-ethics.html (346 words)

	Lobster your way - Newsday.com
		Lobster -- broiled, steamed, stuffed, or mixed with mayo in a salad -- is the quintessential taste of summer.
		Lobster knuckles, served as an appetizer in the shell, $12.
		True lobster aficionados claim that half the pleasure of eating a lobster is cracking the shells and then picking the meat out of the shells, but there are plenty of folks who would just as soon have somebody else do the work.
	www.newsday.com /entertainment/stage/nyc-lobster,0,4930428.story (504 words)

	Bookreporter.com - CONSIDER THE LOBSTER: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
		Nonetheless, CONSIDER THE LOBSTER showcases Wallace's talent for weighing facts with opinions and reporting it like he sees it, giving readers cause to pause --- and think --- about everything from life on the road of a national political campaign to how lobsters might feel about being boiled alive before being eaten.
		In "Up, Simba" and "Consider the Lobster," Wallace uses his credentials from Rolling Stone and Gourmet, respectively, to wax on about the behind-the-scenes goings on of two celebrated public events, mainly the 2000 GOP race and the Maine Lobster Festival.
		"Consider the Lobster" begins as a crustacean's eye view of the touted Maine Lobster Festival and ends as a commentary on lobster rights, for the likes of which PETA would be proud.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0316156116.asp (625 words)

	The Secret Life of Lobsters - The Lobster Blog: food and sex
		Lobsters are cold-blooded and their body temperature adapts to match the ambient temperature around them, with a corresponding slowing of their heart rate, metabolism, and neural functioning.
		Live lobster is one of the last feasts still harvested in a sustainable fashion directly from nature by individuals, not corporations, and sold absolutely fresh, without processing.
		Chilling beforehand prevents the lobster from moving which avoids mistakes during splitting -- otherwise it is hard to achieve a humane kill in an unchilled animal.
	www.secretlifeoflobsters.com /blog/2005/12/how-to-kill-lobster-dedicated-to-david.asp (1302 words)

	The Lobster Institute: Teacher Resources
		Lobsters and the lobstering industry provide a wealth of learning opportunities for students of all ages.
		Whether it is the culture and folklore surrounding lobsters and lobstermen; the economics of the industry; or the process of passing laws and regulations to manage the fishery...the American lobster, and the people and industry that surrounds it, can teach us a great deal.
		Another resource is our Lobster Library -- a searchable index of research articles on a number of topics related to lobsters and the lobster industry.
	www.lobster.um.maine.edu /index.php?page=19 (341 words)

	smokerblog \| How to Humanely Dispatch a Lobster
		"Consider the Lobster," is his reporter-in-the-field-type account of last year's Maine Lobster Festival, an annual celebration of America's favorite crustacean delicacy, being held this weekend in Rockland, Maine.
		I have no frame of reference, having never "prepared" lobster myself, but Kari tells me stories of she and her brother as children playing with live lobsters on her next-door neighbor's kitchen floor just prior to the steamy execution.
		The preferred technique involves placing the lobster in the freezer for a short time (just long enough to dull his senses) and then with a sharp knife, bisect his neural system in one clean stroke.
	www.ksmoker.com /archives/000278.html (381 words)

	Lobster
		The dollar value of reported lobster landings in Maine hit a record high in 2005 despite a decrease in the reported amount of lobsters that were caught, according to preliminary numbers released this week by the state Department of Marine Resources.
		Between 1999 and 2002 lobster hauls in New York fell 75 percent due to disease, and moving to the cooler north the loss of catch is less: Connecticut lost 59 percent, Rhode Island 53 percent, Massachusetts 14 percent and New Hampshire 3 percent.
		OSTON - The state's lobster catch has begun to rebound after a sluggish start to the year, and lobsterman are hoping the resurgence lasts long enough to shake off their summer woes.
	www.harpswell.info /info/harpswell/lobster.htm (5042 words)

	Cooking Lobster Made Easy With These Instructions From Lobster Gram
		Leave the lobsters in the packaging they arrived in until dinner — as long as the box and cooler arrive intact and as long as the package is not placed next to a heat source.
		After your lobsters have boiled, remove from the water, immerse or run under cold water until cool and put them in a sealable plastic bag in the refrigerator.
		You may have heard otherwise, but we know that a lobster does not have to be alive at the moment you are cooking it in order to still be good.
	www.livelob.com /lobstergram/shop?method=static&page=Cook (1676 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays - David Foster Wallace - Hardcover
		Long renowned as one of the smartest writers on the loose, David Foster Wallace reveals himself in Consider the Lobster to be also one of the funniest.
		His quest takes him into the three-ring circus of a presidential race to ask, among other urgent questions, why it is that the circles journalists walk in while whispering into their cell phones are always counterclockwise.
		Wallace’s delightful way, if one wants to know whether a lobster feels pain while undergoing scalding water treatment, don’t ask the cook, the lobsterman, or the zoologist go to the source (not sauce): ask the lobster who obviously is not dancing their life away.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?z=y&pwb=1&ean=9780316156110 (704 words)

	Rocky Mountain News: Books
		In "Consider the Lobster," the award-winning title essay, Wallace first focuses on the visceral, writing that "until sometime in the 1800s.
		lobster was literally low-class food, eaten only by the poor and institutionalized.
		Historical oddities such as this are interesting as far as they go, but they are beside the point, as it turns out, when roughly halfway into the essay, Wallace's discourse shifts to the "animal-cruelty-and-eating issue" raised by the carefree gluttony of the festival.
	www.rockymountainnews.com /drmn/books/article/0,2792,DRMN_63_4335365,00.html (631 words)

	Foreword: Consider the Lobster redesign
		I would go buy a lobster and cook it and put a nice square pat o butter on it and wait for it to melt just a tad, then use your macro (what kinda camera do ya have btw) and get a nice close up of the pat-o-butter on the red back of the lobster.
		I think a lobster bib or maybe even a wet nap wrapper would be interesting since it invokes readily identifiable lobster dinner graphic vernacular.
		I believe the essay asks us to consider why it is that we usually avoid thinking through the ethics of killing and eating lobsters.
	www.ospreydesign.com /foreword/archives/001874.html (2048 words)

	2000/12/08 Feds Consider Lobster Rule Update
		The most significant measure under consideration would restrict access to some lobster management areas to those operators who have fished in the areas prior to September 1, 1999.
		Lobster traps would be allocated to eligible fishing operations based the number historically fished by that operation during a specific time period.
		Other measures under consideration include a trap reduction schedule for one lobster management area, clarification of some lobster management area boundaries, and modifications to trap limits for some New Hampshire lobstermen who hold both state and federal permits.
	www.nefsc.noaa.gov /press_release/2000/news00.33.html (377 words)

	Paste Magazine :: Review :: David Foster Wallace :: Consider the Lobster (Page 1)
		David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster is a big, irresistible shaggy dog of a book—muddy-pawed, it never stops barking, but it’s abounding with enthusiasm and love.
		I’m willing to bet that somewhere, right now, some smarty-pants reviewer is writing his piece on Consider the Lobster in what he thinks is David Foster Wallace style: lots of footnotes, parenthetical reversals, portentous subheadings, etc. I can imagine how cute this reviewer thinks he is. The trouble is, he will get it wrong.
		Once, before I ate a lobster dinner, I witnessed two very beautiful, nurturing and rather well-known female poets “race” the live lobsters across their kitchen floor.
	www.pastemagazine.com /action/article?article_id=2497 (619 words)

	David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster
		These are just some of the subjects in Consider the Lobster.
		Consider the Lobster is heavy with footnotes and notes regarding the footnotes.
		Consider the Lobster is an entertaining set of essays, though distracted readers (like me) may have to pay more attention.
	www.thebookhaven.net /Z_Consider_the_Lobster.html (202 words)

	Consider The Lobster: And Other Essays \| The A.V. Club
		The title Consider The Lobster is more a demand than an invitation: You must consider the lobster.
		David Foster Wallace considers the lobster—or, more specifically, the 2004 Maine Lobster Festival—in the title piece of this 10-essay collection, and finds it a fine jumping-off point for a discussion of whether animals feel pain, and whether this should influence how we think about the ethics of eating them in the first place.
		By Foster's reckoning, the comments of jaded cameramen reveal as much about contemporary politics as what their cameras capture, and in considering everything, he almost can't help but stumble on the truth.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/44366 (435 words)

	Montreal Mirror : Books : Consider the Lobster
		But more important than all these things, a sign that he is learning to let a topic go, to allow the reader some space to have an opinion of his or her own.
		He provides interesting facts (who knew that up until the 1800s there were laws against feeding lobsters to prisoners more than once a week because “it was thought to be cruel and unusual, like making people eat rats”).
		He places the act of lobster eating in the context of all carnivorous dinner experience without recognizing what makes it unique: that it is one of the few meals in our society where you can easily be, if you choose, the murderer, the torturer and the butcher of your own dinner.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2006/012606/books.html (655 words)

	t r e v o r d o d g e: Boiling Wallace
		David Foster Wallace's new essay, "Consider the Lobster," is out in Gourmet magazine this month, in which he recounts a visit to last year's Maine Lobster Festival.
		A festival handout notes that "the lobster has no cerebral cortex, which in humans is the area of the brain that gives the experience of pain." Wallace debunks this notion pretty thoroughly, advancing biological arguments that "lobsters are maybe even more vulnerable to pain" since they lack the pain-damping opioids shared by mammals.
		On the anecdotal front, he notes that lobsters work hard to escape the 212-degree water, hooking their claws over the sides of kitchen pots and thrashing around, audibly, during the 30 seconds or so it takes them to die.
	home.comcast.net /~trevordodge/2004/08/boiling-wallace.html (413 words)

	More wild rides from Wallace - The Boston Globe
		In the dozen or so years since his first ''article," the magazine world seems to have caught on to Wallace, for the tenor of his assignments reflects a wise but sadistic desire by editors to throw this highly sensitive, squeamish man at situations he is almost sure to loathe.
		He stands in line at the Maine Lobster Festival in Rockland, and spends a chunk of time with a conservative radio talk show host in California.
		However, there's a new tone in ''Consider the Lobster." Without simplifying, it's safe to say that these pieces are more aware of the effect they might have on the reader.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2006/02/19/more_wild_rides_from_wallace?mode=PF (758 words)

	Maine lobster boat racers consider 2006 changes- November 2005 Commercial Fisheries News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The MLBRA oversight committee is considering whether to combine or eliminate some classes of points challenge competition on the six-venue race circuit.
		Prior to the evening’s awards ceremony, the MLBRA oversight committee huddled to consider how to best deal with thin turnouts in some classes (10 of the 23 sanctioned classes had one or zero entrants this year); then voted to outlaw the use of turbochargers or “blowers” on gasoline engines.
		According to MLBRA President Clive Farrin, the blower ban was in response to a question from racer Richard Weaver of Steuben.
	www.fish-news.com /cfn/CFN_pages/editorial_11_05/Maine_racing_changes_2006.html (704 words)

	Lobster Gram Testimonials
		Just wanted to let you know he received delivery (of 2 Super Jumbo 3-pound lobsters) this afternoon and he and his companion are going to have a wonderful meal tonight.
		I'm old enough to remember when lobsters were 50 CENTS a pound, and raised in New England, they were a part of my steady diet.
		My parents were thrilled when they received their lobster dinner.
	www.livelob.com /lobstergram/shop?method=static&page=Testimonials (2767 words)

	Foreword: Consider the Lobster redesign, pt. 2
		I think it detracts from the sense of looking down on a lobster that i’m about to eat (and maybe consider the lobster first).
		As for this one, it’s good, but the lettering in the lobster needs to get closer to the shape of an actual lobster or be more obvious that it’s not, if that makes sense.
		I’d consider breaking the outline of the claws, legs and tail at the center to allow the text more space to be digested.
	www.ospreydesign.com /foreword/archives/001878.html (750 words)

	STLtoday - Entertainment - Books
		When David Foster Wallace asks us to "consider the lobster," he requests not a passing glance but intensely focused scrutiny.
		Instead of blindly accepting either the confident assertion by the festival reps that lobsters feel no pain or the counterclaims by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Wallace sorts through the neurological findings of biologists and the considered opinions of ethicists.
		This insistence on considering all sides of an issue recurs throughout the essay collection, perhaps most notably in "Up, Simba," Wallace's account of his stint as a Rolling Stone correspondent covering Sen. John McCain's 2000 presidential campaign.
	www.stltoday.com /stltoday/entertainment/reviews.nsf/book/story/6B631B9876478A8E862570D90071C833?OpenDocument&highlight=2,"wallace" (434 words)

	Lobsters, John McCain, and 50-cent words \| csmonitor.com
		Consider the Lobster considers the lobster for 19 of its 343 pages.
		"Consider the Lobster" is a collection of magazine and newspaper pieces he's written over the past nine years.
		Throughout, he deals a lot with communication: how do we ever know about other people or things; what they're feeling; what that means to us; and what, if anything, to do about it.
	www.csmonitor.com /2006/0228/p16s01-bogn.html (781 words)

	David Foster Wallace Considers the Lobster
		For Wallace, the Maine Lobster Festival inspires an unflinching inquiry into the ethics of boiling an animal alive.
		Wallace’s article explores the excruciating pain that lobsters feel when they are boiled alive, taking both scientific evidence and his own observations into account.
		He expands his analysis to consider the question of eating meat in general, as well as the deeper question of how humans relate to other animals.
	www.lobsterlib.com /feat/davidwallace/index.asp (293 words)

	Consider The Lobster by David Foster Wallace: Reviews
		The footnote-loving author tackles subjects ranging from pornography to conservative talk radio in his latest collection of essays.
		David Foster Wallace has once again cleaned out his desk drawer, and boy are we the lucky ones.
		So the essays in "Consider the Lobster" ultimately ring hollow; that doesn't mean they aren't loads of fun.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/wallacedavidfoster/considerthelobster (396 words)

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