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Lords:
* Danny enjoys bananas.
* https://twitter.com/itsdannymusic
* https://www.youtube.com/dannymusic
* https://www.twitch.tv/dannymusic
* Lauren streams on Twitch and plays in The Returners.
* https://twitter.com/laurentheflute
* https://www.twitch.tv/laurentheflute
* http://the-returners.com/
Topics
* 1:12 If every Tetris piece has a personality, which piece would you most prefer to be stuck with on a deserted island?
* The History of Tetris Randomizers. https://simon.lc/the-history-of-tetris-randomizers
* 12:45 The sense of smell is most closely tied to memory. Are there any really strong associations you have?
* Ulillillia's relationship with music: http://www.ulillillia.us/aboutme/music.shtml
* TXT World: A Journey Of The Nose. https://twitter.com/mogwaipoet/status/1196511832220917760
* "We carry the WORLDS LARGEST Selection of Scratch N' Sniff scents!" http://www.promobrands.com/scratchandsniffscents.htm
* 22:15 Convincing my son that sleep is a good thing when I don't believe it myself
* 28:46 Groke asks: "Transitioning from making art for its own sake to making it to keep a roof over your head (or vice-versa)"
* Basil's Adventure. http://twinbeard.com/basil/
* 40:55 Why IS a raven like a writing desk?
* https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1173/why-is-a-raven-like-a-writing-desk/
* 46:36 In the last week, what is the best thing that you have seen, done, and/or eaten?
* New Study Reveals Just How Sick Families With Kids Get. https://gizmodo.com/new-study-reveals-just-how-sick-families-with-kids-get-1722654292
* How butter chicken roti became a Toronto classic. https://www.thestar.com/life/foodwine/2019/08/13/how-butter-chicken-roti-became-a-toronto-classic.html
Microtopics:
* Doing video game music.
* Breaking a problem into subproblems.
* An unusual form of synesthesia where you perceive Tetris pieces as personalities.
* Making rude buzzer noises when the guest gets it wrong.
* The Tetris I-piece being egotistical and always late when you need it most.
* Siblings who are not identical but are mistaken for identical.
* The stem cell of Tetris pieces.
* The Tetris T-piece being useful for opening coconuts because it's shaped like a bottle opener.
* Playing Tetris without realizing that you can rotate the pieces.
* The Tetris T-piece standing for Trauma.
* Not realizing you push B to run in Super Mario Bros. because it doesn't do anything when you're not moving.
* The smell of candles reminding you of the holidays.
* Finding the cologne that speaks to your soul and wearing it literally every day.
* A cartoon character design except it's how you smell.
* Bringing around an MP3 player to play your theme song on loop as you walk around campus.
* Testing how long you can listen to the Bubble Bobble theme.
* Eating only carrots for a week because you want to really feel the fine distinctions between each individual carrot.
* The particular mix of sweat and grass that makes you think of playing soccer.
* Not being able to think of the word for when the water in a river is extremely busy.
* The idealized smells of Frog Fractions 2 where everything smells like candy because of all the bright colors.
* Going to sleep being the worst thing but your son going to sleep being the best thing.
* Reading your child books about sleeping to convince them that sleeping is a good thing.
* Refusing to teach your child about how certain activities are for boys and some are for girls, but then they learn about it in school anyway.
* Having vivid dreams and taking ideas from them to use in fiction.
* Hating to go to sleep and hating to wake up so maybe what you actually hate is just the transition one way or the other.
* Wanting to go to sleep but going into a depressive spiral instead.
* Reminiscing about making art as a hobby.
* Doing the same amount of work but not burning out because you change the kind of work you're doing.
* Creativity through limitations.
* Getting to the point where you can afford to say no to freelance projects.
* Having an audience and feeling obligated to serve the audience literally all the time.
* Making dinner as an act of creative fulfillment.
* Baking intuitively by just putting ingredients in a pan until it feels right.
* Giving your guest baker a challenge ingredient to incorporate into their cake.
* Picking activities that force you to not be perfect.
* Forcing everybody to read a sentence from your novel before they get a cookie.
* Whether "smartass" is really a swear.
* Finding 11 socks in your desk at the end of the school year.
* Both a raven and a writing desk having legs, but different numbers of legs.
* Whether desks lay eggs to reproduce.
* Finding the image that is exactly halfway between a raven and a writing desk.
* Never having been sick as often as when you worked in a bounce house birthday party place.
* Schoolteachers no longer getting sick because they've gotten literally every disease.
* Putting the curry inside of the flatbread like they do in Toronto.
* The relief of seeing a stray cat you haven't seen in a while.
* A cat named Purrcy.
* Arranging music for a friend and your band mates being excited to record it.
* Artists appreciating art you made for them more than non-artists would.
* Giving grandma your new noisecore album for Christmas.
* Grandma sticking your new noisecore album to the fridge with a magnet.
* Someone asking to read your fiction and then actually reading it.
* A gift secretly being a demand for the recipient's time.
* A gift made not just for somebody but made with their needs in mind.
* Laura, Lauren, Laurie, and Laurel all being the same name if you think about it.
* Profundity on demand.
