2011 3-Day Music Lineup:
Andy Clockwise, The Fling, White Arrows, Vaud & The Villains, The Taiko Project, He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister, Shadow Shadow Shade, Eastern Conference Champions, Light FM, Deap Vally, Judson McKinney, The Damselles & TC4, Berlin featuring Terri Nunn, Lady Dottie & The Diamonds, Little Ones, Dante vs. Zombie, Devon Eisenbarger

Alongside a stellar music lineup the festival is adding a bunch of food truck options this year. Hm, shame on you if you go to a Lobster Festival and eat from a truck without eating the actual Lobster the festival was built upon, nothing against food trucks per se but there is a time and a place for them. Do as you will; the trucks will be there.

We have general admission as well as VIP (3-day + lobster) packages to sling at this time; all winners will be drawn at random. Please include your name and mailing address when entering to win, as these are hard tickets and will be mailed in a timely fashion. Good luck!

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» 2011 Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival: September 16, 17, 18

Thanksgiving Weekend
November 2009

I’d been really depressed, which was uncharacteristic. The problem had stemmed from a day job that was helping me to pay off some 14 months of domestic and international travel and, to be completely honest, a whole hell of a lot of dicking off. When it finally came time to pay the piper, I found myself with three viable job offers on the table – in a recession, no less, after having dicked off for a solid 14 months as previously mentioned. I share this not with the intention of boasting, mind you, but to relay the absolute fact that of those offers, I chose the wrong job and, as a result, I quickly became miserable. And for the first time in nearly a decade, I acknowledged that I was depressed. Months passed. Thanksgiving arrived. I discovered that while I had been traveling, a good friend had died. I’d left her voicemails after the fact, knowing nothing about her demise at the time. Life can be so unfair. But that Thanksgiving morning, Robin and I had volunteered at a food bank and then retired to various parties and friend’s feasts to drink our separate days away, and the morning of volunteering had lifted my spirits not inconsiderably. Thanksgiving passed.

I had fixed myself with a blind date to take place early the following Sunday, with a girl from some online dating site or another. I’m not exactly the coffee shop type when it comes to blind dates. That’s too damn easy, for starters, and furthermore, it can quickly make for a bad initial experience: boring conversations, the always-perked ears of curious patrons, unnatural steam blasts from the espresso machine, smooth jazz and coffee jitters. I had convinced this particular girl that we needed to experience the sun rising in Los Angeles, and among numerous idyllic geographic postulations within the county, offered the idea of the Korean Friendship Bell bluff in San Pedro as a viable location, speculating that due to the direction and location of the peninsula, we stood a passable chance of a sunrise over water.

»continue reading iPhotograph My Life: Ep. 1: San Pedro Korean Bell, Dawn, 2009