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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%27s_hand
• 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#%22The_Enigma_of_Amigara_Fault%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/Acute_necrotizing_ulcerative_gingivitis

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.