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Lords:
* Alex
* Shannon
Topics:
* Regional Trash animals
* Dynamic water features
* The Pee Pee Dance is nowhere to be found on Wikipedia
* The Bells, by Edgar Allen Poe
* https://poets.org/poem/bells
* Recipe essentialism
* Sei Shonagon's Hateful Things are relatable
* https://www.basicincome.com/bp/hatefulthings.htm
Microtopics:
* Striving to sound like a motor that has just been switched off.
* A very healthy vasovagal response.
* Separating the platelets from the plasma.
* Donating blood to anybody on the street with a needle and some brownie brittle.
* Determining the blood type of this synthetic fake blood.
* Brownies except they shatter like glass between your teeth.
* Trashimals.
* Visiting a new place and delighting at all the local pests.
* Living in Florida and just bumping into crocodiles on the street.
* Monkeys climbing your body to steal your food and break your camera.
* Fairy penguins nesting in your storm drains.
* Scooping rattlesnakes into a bucket, going to a military base and dumping them into the tank cockpits.
* Only realizing that it's weird to have a rattlesnake in a jar on your porch when a Frenchman wants to come see.
* It's a Canyon Thing.
* Finding out that a mongoose is not the size of a goose.
* One of the more hazardous trashimals.
* Looking out the window and realizing that someone forgot to close the garage door and you're just going to have to wait for that grizzly bear to leave.
* The mountain lion who visited downtown Berkeley.
* A regular household goose.
* Turning off Niagara falls at night.
* Seeing behind the veil of the world when Niagara falls gets switched off.
* Going to Hawaii to see the milky way.
* A universal human experience that remains completely undocumented.
* The squeeze and grab strategy.
* Something you wouldn't want to sample in Costco.
* The tiny sommelier in your butt.
* Recipes calling for eggs or milk but not specifying which kind.
* Pee shivers.
* A reading face for radio.
* A sort of runic rhyme.
* The rhyming and the chiming of the bells bells bells bells bells bells bells.
* Edgar Allan Poe as an emo Dr. Seuss.
* The gamut of all the things bells can be.
* Adding more bells to the end of each verse.
* The Jabberwocky rewritten in the style of incomprehensible in-jokes.
* A cake recipe with two ingredients.
* Keto-something something cookies.
* Mashing the crosshatch shape with a fork.
* The Easy Cookbook: Over 100 Satisfying Recipes Made with Four Ingredients or Less.
* Ice cream made from eggs and peanut butter.
* The fourth ingredient is your car.
* Writing a book of listicles in the 11th century.
* The way the snow looks on the roofs of the village under moonlight, and how the plebian villagers can't appreciate it.
* When one is in a hurry to leave but one's visitor keeps chattering away.
* Shameless old people putting their feet up on braziers.
* One's attachment to a man depending largely on the elegance of his leave-taking.
* Trying to maintain all your clandestine relationships in a palace where the walls are made of paper.
* A person who recites a spell after sneezing.
* When one is about to be told some interesting piece of news and a baby starts crying.
* The exorcist staying up too late and falling asleep in the middle of the exorcism.
* All the interesting poetry and prose from a historical era being written by women because the men were expected to write in their second language.
* The Empress receives the gift of a phonograph at the dawn of voice recording, and she turns to and is like "uh, figure out something to do with this."
