Topic Lords

113. Only You In Particular Can Prevent Forest Fires

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  • Danny
    • https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer/
    • April
      • https://twitter.com/aprilsaur

        • Topics:

        • Favorite desserts for when it's hot out
        • The horror of almost being older than Princess Diana
        • The developer of Abraham Lincolnland has gone on to run a business selling shirts with Vaporwave Abraham Lincoln's Face on them.
          • http://www.lincolnsoft.com/games/all/
          • https://lincolnapparel.com/
          • I Would Like to Describe by Zbigniew Herbert
            • https://poets.org/poem/i-would-describe
            • Irish surnames as American girl names
            • Words that you misunderstood as a child and how that affected your life
            • Jordan Mechner calling E.Y. Harburg on the phone
              • https://jordanmechner.com/archive/#2009-11-rainbo

                • Microtopics:

                • Priming with a prompt.
                • Using the Inception noise too much so Christopher Nolan angrily accosts you and you can get his autograph.
                • A selection of nice suits.
                • The swirl of the chocolate and vanilla duo.
                • So classy but also so messy.
                • The counter with fifty different ice creams in buckets.
                • 99.
                • A stick of flaky wispy chocolate that you stick into your ice cream.
                • The two biggest KLF fans in America.
                • Mid-Atlantic Podcast Time.
                • Ordering a hot latte in the middle of Summer.
                • Realizing it's winter and going back into the coffee shop and asking the barista to put your iced coffee in the microwave.
                • The treat that you would least like to have in the summer.
                • Hanging your Christmas Pudding from a clothesline.
                • Hollywood Pudding.
                • The Devil's Sandwich.
                • A fancy lad who eats nothing but olives and fig newtons.
                • Morbid Distance Markers.
                • Royalophilia.
                • One princess dies and TV becomes useless for days
                • The ethical considerations of faking a news segment.
                • The last time you'll ever think about Princess Diana.
                • All your dead relatives living in your head.
                • Never saying your child's name on the internet.
                • What body part is touching the poison oak in this metaphor.
                • Refusing to go outside without an EpiPen.
                • Abraham Lincoln fighting Nazis in the cyberpunk future.
                • Bringing back beards for presidents.
                • A 60-page readme about how to run this game in various driver configurations.
                • Sitemaps.
                • Selling shirts with Abraham Lincoln's face on them at Milwaukee Marker Fair.
                • Going full neon.
                • Covering the entire surface of the shirt with a garish vaporwave pattern.
                • Describing courage without involving a dusty lion.
                • Drawing a single original word from your breast, like a rib.
                • Falling asleep with your hand in a mound of planets.
                • A fleeting moment of recognition that is often very centering.
                • Standing at the limits of language.
                • Word tattoos.
                • Mostly salt up top.
                • Describing a moment or a feeling or a concept that is unrelenting in your mind.
                • Using a trembling glass of water emoji but nobody knows whether you mean anxiety or an approaching T-Rex.
                • His and Hers Mound of Planets Tattoos.
                • The Irish guy in the room.
                • Paying respect to your Irish heritage by naming your daughter "McPhee."
                • 8 out of the top 10 baby names of 2020.
                • Having a reaction that nobody else is having.
                • Don't Start Fires mascots.
                • Thinking that Smokey the Bear is instructing you to start forest fires because you don't know what "prevent" means.
                • Only you in particular can prevent forest fires.
                • Whatever flips your boat.
                • One of those weird European psychological horrors.
                • Ha-Ha Hollywood.
                • Wanting information and figuring out how to get it.
                • John Romero still having the Apple 2's memory layout memorized 40 years later.
                • Trying to remember if you've done a podcast.
                • A cat trying to get you to come to bed.
                • Only grace tweets.
                • Overwatch boops.
                • Overwatch: Global Offensive.

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