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Lords this week:
* Jenni is on Twitter as @horsewizrd and wants you to back Aaron Reed's Subcutanea: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/subcutanean-a-novel-where-each-copy-is-different#/
* Chris is a social media ghost.
Topics discussed:
* 1:46 There are SO MANY VEGETABLES when you peek outside cultural silos. SO MANY that we don't use or know about.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha%27shand
* 8:25 Concrete pipes stacked in vacant lots becoming the warp pipe.
* I Am Error, by Nathan Altice: https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/nathan-altice
* The Surprising History of the Warp Pipe: https://reichanjapan.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/the-surprising-history-of-the-warp-pipe/
* The Enigma of Amigara Fault: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyo#%22TheEnigmaofAmigaraFault%22
* 16:45 Recurring segment: Jim's Baby Thigh Thickness Watch?
* 23:48 ZZT
* The Museum of ZZT: https://museumofzzt.com/
* Jim's interview at the Museum of ZZT: https://museumofzzt.com/article/201/an-interview-with-jim-crawford-frog-fractions-2-and-zzt
* Where Are The Cowboys??? https://museumofzzt.com/file/w/Cowboys.zip
* Funny Kumquat: https://funnykumquat.blogspot.com/2011/10/jokes.html
* Shrek Retold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM70TROZQsI
* Star Wars Uncut: https://vimeo.com/34948855
* "Our future selves are strangers to us." https://slate.com/technology/2017/04/why-people-are-so-bad-at-thinking-about-the-future.html
* 41:16 Creative work (writing especially) looks like you're doing nothing, from the outside, a lot of the time. True for other creatives?
* 47:23 Food As Revenge
* Revenge Bento: http://www.iromegane.com/entertainment/foods/the-japanese-wives-revenge-bento-after-the-fight-shikaeshi-bento/
* 53:01 The "Only" comma
* https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2019/10/24/the-only-comma-pt-1/
* Hups! https://en.bab.la/dictionary/finnish-english/hups
* ANUG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acutenecrotizingulcerativegingivitis
Microtopics:
* False promises about updating a podcast in-place.
* Finding a creepy lemon hand in the Safeway lying there like a monkey's paw.
* Finding citrus fruit in the toilet.
* Finding talking fruit in the toilet.
* Whether the toilet is a dish or a soup.
* Accidentally paying $11 for cashew milk.
* Asking the cashier to remove a weird squash.
* Distracting the cashier with pictures of missing nuts.
* The nut abduction clinic.
* A grape that you have to peel like a shrimp.
* A grape that is constantly pooping itself.
* Writing grants for prawn farmers.
* Draining the entire pond to grab all the prawns.
* Sound re-use in Super Mario Bros.
* Tropes that are boring in Japan but still interesting in other cultures.
* King of the Hill being a relatable honor story about a salaryman.
* Misutā Supākoru.
* Imitation concrete pipes that won't roll over and crush you.
* Being too socially inept to realize you're being excluded.
* Trying to kill half your friends but only in retrospect.
* The Goat Simulator stage of baby development.
* The Goat Simulator stage of game development.
* Being at the pinnacle of your child body.
* Realizing halfway through the creative process that you should've been writing a novel.
* Dying and giving a soliloquy about so dying representative democracy.
* Having pages of justification for why you're covered with nipples.
* The story about missing cowboys actually being about North Korea.
* Not wanting to share your kumquat jokes.
* Explaining a meme from 2010 to your grandchildren.
* Sisqo playing a love interest dentist.
* Replacing the love interest in the sequel.
* Hangover 2 just having another hangover in it.
* Making friends with Mexican paramilitary organizations to save the world.
* Raising your child on a diet of guns and kung fu before the government takes him away.
* The most woke Shrek movie.
* Deciding whether you want to hear "All Star" literally all the time.
* Moving pieces of paper around and not being sure you're making anything better.
* Being yelled at by your sister to wash potatoes faster.
* Your yelling sister following you from job to job.
* A sandwich being well beyond your cognitive load.
* Ordering a viking at Subway.
* Eating the devil given physical form every Wednesday for lunch.
* Writing summoning words in your sandwich order.
* Thinking of the exact same demon as your guest lord.
* Writing an entire sentence with no commas at all because commas make you pretentious.
* Putting a period in your minimalist font because you have to be able to refer to "Dr. Awesome."
* Agreeing that "UPS" is a one-syllable word.
* That one Finnish word that Jim still uses regularly.
* Singing "Finnish Affectation" to the tune of "Wave of Mutilation"
* Legislature that would force corporations to pay ongoing rent for the space their jingles take up in your brain.
* Getting scurvy to cure your trench mouth.
* Trading your oral health for the opportunity to make weird troll games for a living.
