345. Is the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid Visible From Space?

Lords:

• Aubrey
  • http://glowhno.com/
• Avery

Topics:

• Every day since 1981 Yuri Borisovich Norstein and his wife Francheska Yarbusova have worked on their masterpice--an animated adaptaion of Gogol's short story The Overcoat. They couple is now in their 80s and will most likely never complete their film.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overcoat_(animated_film)
• Video game urban legends
  • https://vimeo.com/91436410
  • https://saint-arthur.tumblr.com/post/146680746144/riding-immortal-on-the-seeking-road
• Bay Area Airport Naming Drama
• The Only Animal by Franz Wright
  • https://april-is.tumblr.com/post/89794820/april-25-2008-the-only-animal-franz-wright

Microtopics:

• Loving only the parts you don't hate.
• Finishing the whole pack of Red Vines because you refuse to let them defeat you.
• An album you haven't put on Spotify.
• You know. Those podcasts.
• The sort of thing we don't do around here.
• Holding up cue cards so the guests know what to say.
• Reading all 180,000 messages in the Frog Fractions 2 ARG solvers discord.
• The tech company you're applying to sending you all the Enron emails, saying "review these before the interview"
• Mysteries, Easter eggs, and rose-tinted glasses.
• Hedgehog in the Fog.
• Arduous animation processes.
• Working on an animated feature by yourself for over 40 years.
• Great Family Entertainment.
• A story about a guy who has everything he needs who dies while trying to buy an overcoat.
• A huge pack of Red Vines that you and your wife have been eating since 1981.
• Burning yourself out very quickly if you don't put guardrails in place.
• Perfectionists throwing away years of work because it's not good enough.
• DJs who still spin vinyl and other artists who choose to do things the hard way.
• Enveloping yourself in an emotion.
• Refusing to break character for the entire time you're making the Youtube documentary.
• Putting away art you're having a hard time with and coming back to it later.
• Everything that happened between the Sigil Master and Austin Walker.
• Losing track of whether art looks good.
• The fine line between pacing yourself and torturing yourself.
• The statue in the background of Frog Fractions that turns red when you're on Mars.
• Encouraging people to have whimsy.
• Space Knight Rom.
• Snagglepuss the 1950s playwright.
• Back when you could make up a video game rumor and not have it immediately debunked.
• GTA San Andreas urban legends.
• Windows Movie Maker transition screens.
• Gravitating towards the unknowable.
• Self-destructing music.
• Scarcity and unknowability.
• Buying an album from the record shop and perusing the indie record label catalog that comes with it.
• Searching for the 16th colossus.
• Forming a small community and feeling communal with them.
• Playing games with a group of friends like a book club.
• An MMO full of ARGy type stuff.
• Automatically grouping people into a puzzle solving community.
• Being paralyzed by the sheer amount of information that you don't know.
• What's going on with the iGlyphs?
• Finding evidence of the Jejune Institute on a telephone pole.
• Painstakingly making the 7th Frog Fractions game, 45 years from now.
• The history of Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name.
• Game secrets that can't be ruined by one jerk with a decompiler.
• Sleep No More.
• Getting pulled into a secret compartment during an interactive play.
• Multi-city zombie larps.
• The Oakland Airport renaming themselves to the San Francisco Bay International Airport and then later the lawsuit becoming the Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.
• Bay Area topology.
• San Francisco and South San Francisco.
• The Unincorporated Area of San Mateo County International Airport, or UAOSMCIA.
• American cities named after European cities.
• The Bass Pro Shop Pyramid in Memphis, TN.
• Filling a 32-story disco pyramid with sports equipment.
• Fry's Electronics.
• Another episode of Topic Lords where we read from Wikipedia.
• A huge empty building with paintings of Mayan gods holding torches that used to be an electronics store.
• One more way in which people forget about San Diego.
• The only animal that brushes its own teeth
• A monkey wearing a spacesuit trying to smoke a cigarette through the face shield.
• The only animal that smokes cigarettes. (Todd, who works down at the warehouse.)
• Meeting your estranged dad when at the awards show when you're both up for the same Pulitzer.
• Whether that fuckin' awesome monkey is a Bored Ape.
• Whether Google Image Search is making up images yet.
• That time Ryan North and his dog got stuck in an empty swimming pool and turned it into an interactive text adventure.
• By the time you've smelt it, they have dealt it.
  
• Topics are over!