Yowsers, you take a break from lobsters for a week to switch your focus to Argentinian wine, and your inbox explodes with lobster love!

So let’s make a little list for ourselves to keep it organized.

1. Could lobsters unlock the secrets (and provide a cure) for paralysis? New studies suggest yes.

2. The New York Times’ Diner’s Journal discusses Luke’s Lobster, and its imminent new location:

The new place will be a bit larger, with 20 to 30 seats, and the menu will be a bit longer, adding fried clams and shrimp, French fries, and possibly crab and lobster cakes. They’ll also be selling beer and wine.They’ll probably have the same hours as their location at 93 East Seventh Street (First Avenue), 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays, to midnight on weekends.

This is exciting, but we’re hoping for a Brooklyn location next. The article was also published with this image, one of the best looking lobster roll pictures I’ve seen in quite some time. And that’s really saying something.

photo by Lee Clower

3. No. 7 Sub Shop, on the ground floor of the Ace Hotel, has an IMITATION LOBSTER ROLL, and reports are it’s GOOD. Here’s what’s in it (I will make it bold and red for a special effect):

Pickled Ginger Mayo, Candied Wasabi, Potato Chips

Please, someone try this and get back to us.

4. Old news from Thrillist, but this picture is just too Ali G and insane not to post.

5. Ben Sargent is a media machine.

6. Red Hook Lobster Pound reports it will start its Sifton-approved weekend “lobster feasts” again this Friday (from 6 p.m. till 9 p.m.) and Saturday (4 p.m. till 8 p.m.). $25 gets you a lobster, sides, and access to the lovely roof-deck at Rocky Sullivan’s.

Ayum.

From Grubstreet:

As previously reported, the city is currently mulling over potential concessionaires for Brooklyn Bridge Park. The Red Hook Lobster Pound, which already has its claws in the Brooklyn Flea as well as the Flea’s new outpost at Central Park SummerStage, is hoping to roll out a cart, and what a cart! They’ve sent over the design that Suzannah Drake of DLAND Studios conjured up for them, complete with faux lobster tail made from parachute material stretched over aluminum. A little eye candy for you while the city continues to pore over applications.

Oh, excitement is now. We’re having a lobster roll festival this evening, and we shall attempt to make the rolls two ways: one recipe is with butter, and one is with mayo.  For now, the kitchen table awaits. The lobsters are currently being overshadowed by the lemons and the mozzarella, but trust us, they will be the main event.

We ended up going to Fairway for the lobsters, as time was tight and we needed to morning-shop. We were hoping to make a long overdue trip to Red Hook Lobster Pound. Next time!

Lobsters do bring everyone together; there was a small crowd around us as our lobsters were plucked from their tank, and our checkout lady was very chatty and impressed by our haul. And she had the Windex close at hand for the cleanup.

Off to make tomalley toast… more to come.