188. An Extremely Gendered Sniper Rifle

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.