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Lords:
* Shannon
* Avery
Topics:
* Measure words
* Is color even real?
* https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/hdrdlt/poemmycatissadspencermadsen/
Microtopics:
* Game Changer.
* Why various albums aren't on Spotify.
* During the American Revolution when the British were always quartering punk bands in colonial household.
* The Bug Porn calendar that Shannon drew for the FF2 ARG.
* A singular bug in a pin-up pose.
* A praying mantis cosplaying as a nun.
* Learning a language and then forgetting it because you're too embarrassed to speak it around people.
* A soup vs. a bowl of soup.
* Thousands of years of associating this thing with this other thing.
* How singing works in tonal languages.
* The people who keep insisting that orange doesn't rhyme with anything.
* That time Tom Lehrer rhymed "orange" with "bizarre enjoyment."
* Memory palaces.
* Stand over mouth next to person equals.
* The "two six-packs" mnemonic for remembering what the two dots on the guitar fretboard mean.
* Mnemonics that you would prefer to forget.
* The blue/black/gold/white dress.
* Changing the perceived color of an object by changing the lighting in the room.
* Whether light is real.
* Naming a color and never telling anybody the name.
* Keeping a color swatch because your memory of a color might drift over time, but the swatch fades.
* Perfect pitch for color perception.
* Getting two sensory outputs from a single sensory input.
* A deeply visual species.
* Striving to be amazed and confused by things normal people take for granted.
* Visualization but for smells.
* A list of attributes of what your daughter looks like.
* Blind sight.
* Seeing but having no experience of sight.
* Hashtag Kant Folks.
* Discerning green and pink.
* Do these two sexy nazi ponies look the same to you?
* The purpose of music theory.
* The invention of standardized tunings.
* Where to find poems.
* A cat who does not have a cat.
* A cat wondering why nobody else in his family is a cat.
* Things it is funny for a cat to be sad about.
* Why the family cat didn't go to college.
* Making sure to get a pet early enough that you child can see it die before going to college.
* Getting a second dog vs. getting your dog a dog.
* Dog IQ tests.
* The placards at the dog shelter listing each dog's D&D stats and alignment.
* Cockatiel owners.
* A sporting event that measures how hungry you are.
* How many cinder blocks you'd pull for a kingdom's Klondike bar.
* Looking into a well during the full moon and saying Avery's name a hundred times.
* Dating a string of Lisas.
* Six Songs For Lisa.
* Starting your six song album on song number three.
