258. Only The Head Of The Deer Sparks Joy

Lords:

• Cort
• Mark

Topics:

• The best and worst thing you’ve ever found in the trash.
• Traveling with children & associated challenges/solutions
• Adventures with BB-8
• Survey of Forms - Burma-Shave Sign, by Andrew Plotkin
  • https://eblong.com/zarf/thod/58.html
• The useless superpowers game
• Does Mega Man ever suffer ennui?

Microtopics:

• Dependable sources of guava.
• Staring at the raccoons as they go by at night.
• Room temperature ice cream full of bullets.
• Vietnamese guava vs. central american guava.
• Gnawing through a leathery rock to impress your in-laws.
• Cudgel Hero Faction.
• A life-sized deer sticking out of your neighbor's trash can.
• What to do with three quarters of a deer.
• Swimming around in a treasure factory and finding spices.
• Explaining to your mom where this salt and pepper came from.
• Dodging a delicious treat bullet.
• Bringing home a NeXT machine from the dumpsters behind Carnegie Mellon.
• Throwing away 30 year old legal books and a time traveling lawyer compares you to Hitler.
• Won't somebody think of the LA hipsters?
• Figuring out how to be okay not having exactly what you want all the time.
• Getting heatstroke in Japan.
• Mr. Puddles Pineapple having the time of his life.
• Getting a photo of your stuffed penguin at a Hamlet castle holding a skull.
• Is it really fake if you're telling the truth in a fake way?
• Housekeeping having a good time with your stuffed animals.
• The perfect companion to explore the Star Wars Galaxy by your side.
• Arranging yourself external motivators.
• A skill separate from cooking that is still relevant to the dining experience.
• Butterfly Pee Tea.
• Interwoven bread dough.
• These are Zelda meatballs!
• Trying out the recipe for Dubious Food in the Zelda cookbook.
• Sonic the Hedgehog chili that takes five hours to make.
• Rouge the Bat's favorite dish.
• Very round droid. Rounder than most.
• The make-your-own-lightsaber course class project room experience.
• Going to Disneyland and asking someone in costume for directions to the speakeasy.
• A game that exists to make children sad.
• Everyone working together to blow the shit out of Bowser, Jr.
• Losing the boss battle with Bowser Jr. at Super Nintendo World and the attendant hands you the dongle so your kids can listen to Princess Peach crying in despair the entire drive home.
• Explaining to the Super Nintendo World staff that you shouldn't need all the keys to get to the final boss because that's not how Mario games are typically structured.
• The guy trying to backwards long jump the stairs to the final boss in Super Nintendo World.
• A series of billboards that turn out to be a poem.
• Which came first, the Pizza Hut or the building shaped like a hut that you make pizza in?
• A racially insensitive fireworks store.
• Dropping a CRT monitor off of a tall building vs. dropping an LCD display.
• Raccoons witnessing crimes.
• Shaking exactly two aspirin out of the bottle every single time.
• An extremely opaque Pepper's Ghost.
• Mega Man defeating Ennui Man and acquiring his powers.
• Mega Man can't defeat Dr. Wily because of Asimov's Three Laws.
• Dr. Light deleting Mega Man's special abilities between games because he needs the hard drive space for porn.
• Mega Man choosing to forget Crash Man's memories because he's tired of remembering that awkward first date.
• Dr. Wily hacking everyone's iPhone to have the latest U2 album.
• Searching for lords and finding a random raccoon.