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Lords:
* Maxx
* Erica
Topics:
* Zines and Jam Games; stuff that's understood to be breakable
* https://itch.io/c/689872/indiepocalypse
* Birding in the pandemic
* Itinerant Filmmakers
* http://www.meltonbarker.org/
* Meditation on Capitalism
* I found the tweet that the image came from, but still don't know the author of the poem: https://twitter.com/Sierra_OffLine/status/1100852286585221122
Microtopics:
* The Bugzooka
* Booms and busts of little insect invasions.
* A little vacuum chamber that you squish closed.
* Sucking a fly through a tube.
* Cry havoc and let slip the bugs of war.
* Egads, Bugzooks!
* The Bug-A-Salt Passion Assassin 3.0.
* A middle aged dad of the type that would buy a salt gun
* A bugzooka in active use.
* A balding man who looks like Jeffery Epstein crawling on the floor in his underwear to promote the Bug-A-Salt.
* Professor Fly Presents: Fly Facts.
* Judging the anatomical correctness of Professor Fly.
* Hammacher-Schlemmer ads for bug-catching devices.
* Whether women make better snipers.
* Aiming at the fly on the wall with your laser sight.
* Mr. Pinch.
* A fly in a lab coat who lives in Seattle.
* A photocopied leaflet about your band or political cause.
* The best, most well-produced musicians in the world.
* Ways to frame game jams.
* A good brain hack for if you feel the urge to be a product.
* Indiepocalypse.
* Electric Zine Maker.
* Whether the pandemic is over.
* One of the birdiest places in the United States.
* Talk Irby to Me.
* Becoming texting buddies with a famous bird systematist from Cornell.
* A Big Year.
* Yelling bird coordinates at someone you just met.
* Winston's favorite bird and why he likes it so much.
* Knowing something about ravens. (Not what they eat.)
* The Northwestern Crow.
* A crow catching live shrimp and stashing them in the moss.
* Collecting black walnut husks to dye wool.
* Feeding crows who bring you lipstick from the 1940s.
* What to do with a 10 pound bag of unsalted peanuts.
* A movie where every kid in town foils an attempted kidnapping and then holds a talent show.
* Ark Music Factory.
* Hiring a record label guy to write and record a song with your daughter so she can star in a terrible music video and become a survivor of internet celebrity.
* Social media survivors.
* Stardom: it's not good for you.
* Whether kids today still want to be movie stars.
* Bitmojis and other things that put you in a little cartoon.
* A customized birthday greeting from a Weird Al.
* Paying Rudy Giuliani a pittance to wish your mom a happy birthday.
* One of the Breaking Bad hitman twins undercutting the other by $300 on Cameo.
* Preserving your Too Short custom rap tape on Youtube.
* A poem written in BASIC that is spoilers for Mad Men.
* The light in your Ikea bookshelf recognizing the light in you.
* Doing line number archaeology when reading a BASIC program.
* Seeing text from the other side of the page through the page.
* Do It.
* Instructional Art.
* Finding 25 identical objects and naming them all Jimmy.
* Flying Maxx to the Permian Basin to teach your students how to repair microscopes.