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Lords:
* Mark
* Shirley
Topics:
* What would you do if you came downstairs and all of my clothes and my glasses were on the floor in a heap in a puddle of water?
* Aphasia: What doesn't it mean?
* Dr. Icecreamwala
* https://www.icecreamderm.com/
* Eternal Champion - I Am The Hammer
* https://eternalchampion.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-the-hammer
* Teen Censorship (what to restrict, if anything?)
* SCA stuff: social skills in the SCA, thrown weapons, and winter camping!
Microtopics:
* EEG, EKG and ECG.
* Dogs and video games.
* Kingdom: Two Crowns.
* Whoops, I'm Dead!
* Borker and Starina.
* Waking up in the morning and telling your wife "and we're back!"
* Sleeping with the Shirley-cicle.
* When your wife turns into a puddle of water and you have to get a hot water bottle shaped like your wife to sleep with every night.
* Hedge witches.
* An Alex Mack situation.
* Turning yourself into a goo accidentally vs. on purpose.
* A dog athletic enough to pee on your glasses while you're wearing them.
* Figuring out what muscle to flex to telepathically communicate as a glass of water.
* Believing things you see written in an authoritative voice.
* The kind of movies Bruce Willis has been making lately.
* Aphasia vs. Primary Progressive Aphasia.
* The four primary modalities of human language.
* Figuring out how to hang out with someone you can't talk to.
* Decoupling the word "yes" from its literal meaning.
* Apraxia of speech.
* Thanking colonialism for this moment of delight.
* Serving your patients their prescription in a waffle cone.
* Flying to the Bay Area to get some light dermatology done.
* The battle-starved riders of Tarsul.
* The demon priests of ill Nitaar.
* Nolan Bushnell receiving feedback about the name Atari.
* The God Blade.
* Fist-pumpin', sword-swingin' heavy metal.
* A good source of lore.
* Cosmologies where god is a species.
* Drinking his blood to see what happens.
* Heavy metal bands fronted by blacksmiths.
* Wanting your teenager to feel safe listening to fascist heavy metal in front of you so that you can talk to them about it.
* Installing a web filter so that your child doesn't accidentally stumble into gross abusive porn.
* Opinions about parent-child relationships from someone who was once a child.
* Heavy metal bands who write music about white nationalism vs. heavy metal bands who are just white nationalist without writing about it.
* Deliberately not separating the art from the artist so you get the extra enjoyment out of musicians who are cool people.
* Videos of common household items being crushed under the wheels of a car.
* Videos of people building things in the woods.
* Devil's toothpaste.
* Reacting to the sugar tax by angrily boycotting soda.
* The Society for Creative Anachronism kicking you out if you dress up as a time traveler from the future or a 1950s greaser.
* The SCA re-enacting the before-times, when morning zoo radio didn't exist yet.
* Apex Nerds.
* Geniuses above petty squabbling.
* A better system of chilling out.
* Going into the woods with your friend who likes building stuff in the woods and watching him build stuff in the woods.
* Movies set in the 80s that have absolutely nothing from the 70s in them because everybody threw all that shit away on January 1st, 1980.
* Handing out arm rings to your sworn men.
* Instituting a buddy system where you buy each other awards.
* Happy baby cow.
