We have new merch! You’re either going to love it or hate it.

lingthusiasm:ALTALTWe have new merch! You’re either going to love it or hate it.We’ve used the metaphor of a musical instrument several times when talking about how the human vocal tract is organized, and how you can change the shape of your mouth as the air is on the way out, which changes what the air sounds like. We’ve used a couple of different musical instruments as metaphors, the meat clarinet, the meat bassoon, the meat bagpipe… But Gretchen just couldn’t get that original (cursed) imagery of the meat clarinet out of her head (maybe it’s just because she played clarinet in high school band). So Lauren was eventually persuaded that what we really need in our lives is some art of the human vocal tract and a clarinet merged together, in… meat colours (Lauren would like it noted that she thinks this art is deeply cursed and will not be buying any).So, here’s what our artist Lucy Maddox made for us! I think she really nailed the body horror effect we were going for. [Unfortunately,…