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    <title>Topic Lords - Episodes Tagged with “Alexa”</title>
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  <title>321. Mist Is Just Wet Dust</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Lords: Linker and Alexa We discuss variations in vampire stories, anthropomorphism in media, getting a free burger when you join my rewards, Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass, what letter would win in a Royal Rumble, and anti-lesbian vampire propaganda of the 1970s</itunes:subtitle>
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* Linker
* Alexa
Topics:
* Variations in vampire stories: types of powers, origins of vampires, lack of consent lol
* Anthropomorphism/Connection in media
* Get a free burger when you join my rewards
* Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass
  * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/meditation-at-lagunitas
* What letter of the alphabet would win in a Royal Rumble
* Anti-Lesbian Vampire Propaganda of the 1970s as shown in The Vampire Lovers (1970)
  * https://crossingsjournal.ca/index.php/crossings/article/view/283
Microtopics:
* Being American and then being Canadian-American.
* Elephantasy and Elephantasy Flipside.
* Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty.
* 3D-printed worms.
* A plastic casing attached to your keychain that used to have a clicky button on it.
* What we did to fidget after the industrialization of textiles.
* How office workers goofed off before the Internet.
* Bella's lead skull that prevents Edward from mind-controlling her.
* Making up a power to be your favorite vampire power.
* What happens when you inhale a vampire in mist form.
* Using a picture of Cat's Cradle to illustrate the concept of telekinesis.
* Putting the vampire coffin in steerage and the familiar has to sit in coach and then pull the coffin off of the luggage conveyor belt. 
* Would it be fun to turn into mist and be collected in a cup and then drunk?
* Miss Frizzle, vampire expert.
* Getting frustrated at a stealth video game and giving up being a pacifist as a metaphor for being an old vampire.
* New Money vs. Old Money vampires.
* Vampires going on Fetlife to find ethically sourced food. 
* One mysterious vampire at Goth night at the nightclub quietly asking to drink your blood, vs. twenty vampires going around begging and everyone's like jeez, this again?
* Nobody expecting you to embezzle the blood.
* Talking to a computer like it's a person you have absolutely no respect for, in a way you'd never talk to a real person because you assign a baseline respect for just being a real person, and people overhearing you are like "holy shit they're really mad" but you're not mad, you're just talking to a computer.
* Apologizing to the table you just ran into. 
* It Takes Two.
* Following the instructions of the book of love. 
* Creation of personality in moments of friction. 
* Interacting with video games in similar ways as you would a person, expect without the social anxiety.
* Why would you ruin this perfectly good complex system with social anxiety?
* We've got teamwork at home.
* Sentient burgers enslaving other sentient burgers.
* Being rewarded with a free burger but then turning into a burger and being given away as a reward. 
* Chicken stars! They're like chicken nuggets but they're shaped like stars!
* Where were you when you were drafted into the Rewards Wars?
* Naming your rewards program "My Rewards" so when the mascot refers to it it sounds like the rewards belong to the mascot.
* Demanding to see the terms and conditions before you eat this hamburger.
* A word that is elegy to what it signifies. 
* Moments when the body is as numinous as words. 
* Taking some LSD and learning about non-symbolic states. 
* Ignoring poetry in the same way that you ignore ads. 
* Vampire jokes! 
* Transylvanian Hounds.
* Serif H being much more combat-ready than sans serif H.
* The most bouba letters. 
* Capital O rolling around crushing the other letters of the alphabet like in Raiders of the Lost Ark. 
* Distraction the ref so you can stab. 
* Which letter of the alphabet could do the best backflip. 
* Whether the ampersand counts as a letter. 
* Letters that are good at stabbing vs. letters with broad sturdy bases. 
* The nuclear family emerging in response to the financial boom following World War II.
* Anti-lesbian propaganda films that are far too sexy to be effective. 
* Heteronormative fiances.
* Carmella the lesbian vampire stealing your wife. 
* The vampire lesbians receiving their comeuppance and the heteronormative couple living happily every after.
* Be gay do crimes. (Murder.)
* Buying Linker's games so he doesn't die. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Linker</li>
<li>Alexa</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Variations in vampire stories: types of powers, origins of vampires, lack of consent lol</li>
<li>Anthropomorphism/Connection in media</li>
<li>Get a free burger when you join my rewards</li>
<li>Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/meditation-at-lagunitas" rel="nofollow">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/meditation-at-lagunitas</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>What letter of the alphabet would win in a Royal Rumble</li>
<li>Anti-Lesbian Vampire Propaganda of the 1970s as shown in The Vampire Lovers (1970)

<ul>
<li><a href="https://crossingsjournal.ca/index.php/crossings/article/view/283" rel="nofollow">https://crossingsjournal.ca/index.php/crossings/article/view/283</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Being American and then being Canadian-American.</li>
<li>Elephantasy and Elephantasy Flipside.</li>
<li>Crazy Aaron&#39;s Thinking Putty.</li>
<li>3D-printed worms.</li>
<li>A plastic casing attached to your keychain that used to have a clicky button on it.</li>
<li>What we did to fidget after the industrialization of textiles.</li>
<li>How office workers goofed off before the Internet.</li>
<li>Bella&#39;s lead skull that prevents Edward from mind-controlling her.</li>
<li>Making up a power to be your favorite vampire power.</li>
<li>What happens when you inhale a vampire in mist form.</li>
<li>Using a picture of Cat&#39;s Cradle to illustrate the concept of telekinesis.</li>
<li>Putting the vampire coffin in steerage and the familiar has to sit in coach and then pull the coffin off of the luggage conveyor belt. </li>
<li>Would it be fun to turn into mist and be collected in a cup and then drunk?</li>
<li>Miss Frizzle, vampire expert.</li>
<li>Getting frustrated at a stealth video game and giving up being a pacifist as a metaphor for being an old vampire.</li>
<li>New Money vs. Old Money vampires.</li>
<li>Vampires going on Fetlife to find ethically sourced food. </li>
<li>One mysterious vampire at Goth night at the nightclub quietly asking to drink your blood, vs. twenty vampires going around begging and everyone&#39;s like jeez, this again?</li>
<li>Nobody expecting you to embezzle the blood.</li>
<li>Talking to a computer like it&#39;s a person you have absolutely no respect for, in a way you&#39;d never talk to a real person because you assign a baseline respect for just being a real person, and people overhearing you are like &quot;holy shit they&#39;re really mad&quot; but you&#39;re not mad, you&#39;re just talking to a computer.</li>
<li>Apologizing to the table you just ran into. </li>
<li>It Takes Two.</li>
<li>Following the instructions of the book of love. </li>
<li>Creation of personality in moments of friction. </li>
<li>Interacting with video games in similar ways as you would a person, expect without the social anxiety.</li>
<li>Why would you ruin this perfectly good complex system with social anxiety?</li>
<li>We&#39;ve got teamwork at home.</li>
<li>Sentient burgers enslaving other sentient burgers.</li>
<li>Being rewarded with a free burger but then turning into a burger and being given away as a reward. </li>
<li>Chicken stars! They&#39;re like chicken nuggets but they&#39;re shaped like stars!</li>
<li>Where were you when you were drafted into the Rewards Wars?</li>
<li>Naming your rewards program &quot;My Rewards&quot; so when the mascot refers to it it sounds like the rewards belong to the mascot.</li>
<li>Demanding to see the terms and conditions before you eat this hamburger.</li>
<li>A word that is elegy to what it signifies. </li>
<li>Moments when the body is as numinous as words. </li>
<li>Taking some LSD and learning about non-symbolic states. </li>
<li>Ignoring poetry in the same way that you ignore ads. </li>
<li>Vampire jokes! </li>
<li>Transylvanian Hounds.</li>
<li>Serif H being much more combat-ready than sans serif H.</li>
<li>The most bouba letters. </li>
<li>Capital O rolling around crushing the other letters of the alphabet like in Raiders of the Lost Ark. </li>
<li>Distraction the ref so you can stab. </li>
<li>Which letter of the alphabet could do the best backflip. </li>
<li>Whether the ampersand counts as a letter. </li>
<li>Letters that are good at stabbing vs. letters with broad sturdy bases. </li>
<li>The nuclear family emerging in response to the financial boom following World War II.</li>
<li>Anti-lesbian propaganda films that are far too sexy to be effective. </li>
<li>Heteronormative fiances.</li>
<li>Carmella the lesbian vampire stealing your wife. </li>
<li>The vampire lesbians receiving their comeuppance and the heteronormative couple living happily every after.</li>
<li>Be gay do crimes. (Murder.)</li>
<li>Buying Linker&#39;s games so he doesn&#39;t die.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Lords:</p>

<ul>
<li>Linker</li>
<li>Alexa</li>
</ul>

<p>Topics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Variations in vampire stories: types of powers, origins of vampires, lack of consent lol</li>
<li>Anthropomorphism/Connection in media</li>
<li>Get a free burger when you join my rewards</li>
<li>Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/meditation-at-lagunitas" rel="nofollow">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/meditation-at-lagunitas</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>What letter of the alphabet would win in a Royal Rumble</li>
<li>Anti-Lesbian Vampire Propaganda of the 1970s as shown in The Vampire Lovers (1970)

<ul>
<li><a href="https://crossingsjournal.ca/index.php/crossings/article/view/283" rel="nofollow">https://crossingsjournal.ca/index.php/crossings/article/view/283</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p>Microtopics:</p>

<ul>
<li>Being American and then being Canadian-American.</li>
<li>Elephantasy and Elephantasy Flipside.</li>
<li>Crazy Aaron&#39;s Thinking Putty.</li>
<li>3D-printed worms.</li>
<li>A plastic casing attached to your keychain that used to have a clicky button on it.</li>
<li>What we did to fidget after the industrialization of textiles.</li>
<li>How office workers goofed off before the Internet.</li>
<li>Bella&#39;s lead skull that prevents Edward from mind-controlling her.</li>
<li>Making up a power to be your favorite vampire power.</li>
<li>What happens when you inhale a vampire in mist form.</li>
<li>Using a picture of Cat&#39;s Cradle to illustrate the concept of telekinesis.</li>
<li>Putting the vampire coffin in steerage and the familiar has to sit in coach and then pull the coffin off of the luggage conveyor belt. </li>
<li>Would it be fun to turn into mist and be collected in a cup and then drunk?</li>
<li>Miss Frizzle, vampire expert.</li>
<li>Getting frustrated at a stealth video game and giving up being a pacifist as a metaphor for being an old vampire.</li>
<li>New Money vs. Old Money vampires.</li>
<li>Vampires going on Fetlife to find ethically sourced food. </li>
<li>One mysterious vampire at Goth night at the nightclub quietly asking to drink your blood, vs. twenty vampires going around begging and everyone&#39;s like jeez, this again?</li>
<li>Nobody expecting you to embezzle the blood.</li>
<li>Talking to a computer like it&#39;s a person you have absolutely no respect for, in a way you&#39;d never talk to a real person because you assign a baseline respect for just being a real person, and people overhearing you are like &quot;holy shit they&#39;re really mad&quot; but you&#39;re not mad, you&#39;re just talking to a computer.</li>
<li>Apologizing to the table you just ran into. </li>
<li>It Takes Two.</li>
<li>Following the instructions of the book of love. </li>
<li>Creation of personality in moments of friction. </li>
<li>Interacting with video games in similar ways as you would a person, expect without the social anxiety.</li>
<li>Why would you ruin this perfectly good complex system with social anxiety?</li>
<li>We&#39;ve got teamwork at home.</li>
<li>Sentient burgers enslaving other sentient burgers.</li>
<li>Being rewarded with a free burger but then turning into a burger and being given away as a reward. </li>
<li>Chicken stars! They&#39;re like chicken nuggets but they&#39;re shaped like stars!</li>
<li>Where were you when you were drafted into the Rewards Wars?</li>
<li>Naming your rewards program &quot;My Rewards&quot; so when the mascot refers to it it sounds like the rewards belong to the mascot.</li>
<li>Demanding to see the terms and conditions before you eat this hamburger.</li>
<li>A word that is elegy to what it signifies. </li>
<li>Moments when the body is as numinous as words. </li>
<li>Taking some LSD and learning about non-symbolic states. </li>
<li>Ignoring poetry in the same way that you ignore ads. </li>
<li>Vampire jokes! </li>
<li>Transylvanian Hounds.</li>
<li>Serif H being much more combat-ready than sans serif H.</li>
<li>The most bouba letters. </li>
<li>Capital O rolling around crushing the other letters of the alphabet like in Raiders of the Lost Ark. </li>
<li>Distraction the ref so you can stab. </li>
<li>Which letter of the alphabet could do the best backflip. </li>
<li>Whether the ampersand counts as a letter. </li>
<li>Letters that are good at stabbing vs. letters with broad sturdy bases. </li>
<li>The nuclear family emerging in response to the financial boom following World War II.</li>
<li>Anti-lesbian propaganda films that are far too sexy to be effective. </li>
<li>Heteronormative fiances.</li>
<li>Carmella the lesbian vampire stealing your wife. </li>
<li>The vampire lesbians receiving their comeuppance and the heteronormative couple living happily every after.</li>
<li>Be gay do crimes. (Murder.)</li>
<li>Buying Linker&#39;s games so he doesn&#39;t die.</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/topiclords">Support Topic Lords</a></p>]]>
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