359. I Believe That Like I Believe a Hole in My Head

Lords:

• Erica
  
• Alex
  
  • https://ludobloom.com/

Topics:

• Making friends with animals
  
• The 20 point platform of Count Binface
  
• The song NASA banned from space
  
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKzLopYRauI
    
• You Are a Dragonfly & I Am Also a Dragonfly
  
  • https://www.tumblr.com/apoemaday/722022939295367168/you-are-a-dragonfly-i-am-also-a-dragonfly
    
• Using text to organize thoughts
  
• A Tale About Digging a Hole
  
  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/4210530/A_Tale_About_Digging_a_Hole__The_Official_Story_Novel/

Microtopics:

• Eating a bunch of chocolate.
  
• Carob vs. chocolate?
  
• Caffeinated soap.
  
• Why there's so much cherry juice in everything.
  
• What the Cranberries have to say about the Ocean Spray collective.
  
• Topic Lords is a Sometimes Food.
  
• Emergency Cat Wrangling.
  
• Identifying and naming individual squirrels.
  
• The kind of friendship you have to cultivate over 20,000 years.
  
• The skunk that keeps hanging out and taunting Roy.
  
• Licensed squirrels.
  
• What moral obligations possibly having a pet squirrel confers upon you.
  
• Texas skunks with fake IDs.
  
• Squirrely chipmunks.
  
• California's Argentine ant super colony.
  
• New hypotheses in immunity ecology.
  
• Tracking the ant colony outside your house and keeping a database of when each individual ant dies.
  
• The more we learn about the squirrels, the more they know about us.
  
• The weirdo who's always hanging around on the other side of the mirror.
  
• Failing the marshmallow test because you only wanted one marshmallow anyway.
  
• Trying to bat squirrels away from your sandwich on your first date with the squirrel lady.
  
• Reaming out the president of Belgium because you hate waffles.
  
• Count Binface of the Gremloids.
  
• Replacing Lord Buckethead when he retires, like the Dread Pirate Roberts.
  
• How dare you? I'm from outer space!
  
• A t-shirt of Margaret Thatcher worrying about Lord Buckethead.
  
• Arcade grabber games to be made fairer.
  
• How regulated are claw machines in Clacton?
  
• A narrow genre to appreciate if you like screaming.
  
• Mission control deciding the music that the astronauts wake up to.
  
• A committee of 30 people who decide what music to play at what volume to wake you up at 6:45am.
  
• Mission control shutting down Pink Pony Club right before all the astronauts are about to join in on the chorus.
  
• The American teenager who wrote most of Scots Wikipedia.
  
• Slurred yelps of the song's title.
  
• Whether a 2010 blog post is more plausible than a modern Facebook post.
  
• Interviewing 90-year-old Jack Lousma about Paralyzed, by the Legendary Stardust Cowboy.
  
• What if someone answers the phone at the fake pizza hotline?
  
• Roy vs. Fake Roy.
  
• Ducking out of reading the poem every time you can.
  
• Ducking out vs. weaseling out.
  
• Cutting the green air open with our sharp blue bodies simply by being there.
  
• Dragonflies that are effortlessly in the moment.
  
• A few sentences about what a dragonfly might experience.
  
• The implications of seeing a pond for the first time.
  
• Looking at the ocean and experiencing awe. (Not the same thing as enjoying it.)
  
• The realization that any time, the Pacific Ocean could decide to kill you no matter where you are.
  
• How Jim is going to mentally process the concept of ponds.
  
• The set of things that would have to be true for you to be able to solve this puzzle.
  
• Particularization.
  
• Inventing a puzzle solving process to play video games more efficiently and then using the same process to drive cold fusion.
  
• The fantasy of producing something meaningful.
  
• Art as a product vs. art as a process.
  
• Gathering ore and selling the ore for upgrades.
  
• PDF DLC.