AprilRyanJohn asks "Puzzles/puzzle games and challenges you find pleasant and brain-expanding vs. the ones that you just cannot get your head around."Which foods would be the most fun or the least fun to eat if you rotated them at a 90 degree angle first.https://www.ebay.com/itm/184633478236The Shaggshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHYInstructions for Traveling West, by Joy Sullivanhttps://joysullivan.substack.com/p/how-to-leave-a-lifeSongs that we completely ignore how weird they are because they're famous alreadyUnionsPlug guilt.Mentoring young composers.Saying smart stuff about things you know about.Taking the W.A high pitched ding whenever someone succeeds at something.A Good Snowman is Hard to Build.Into the Breach.Pushing the Vek to a different square.Making something in your environment more satisfying.A squid with your kid.Colors that have frequencies vs. compound colors.Indigo: a fake color.The banger heavy duty colors.A range of frequencies that is culturally mediated.Paint mixing vs. light mixing.Exploding ancient dinosaur juice constantly.The electricity magic vs. the valve magic.What does it mean to explode?How to tell the difference between things you know because it's common knowledge vs. things you know because it's what you obsessed about when you were 15.Having a responsibility to the taxpayers to not be wasteful.The science of what sounds good.The most confusing music you've ever heard.Food rotation.Imagining you have a banana coming at you. (It's not scary.)Biting it the way we bite it.Burrowing through your hamburger top to bottom.Living with the mayonnaise for 30 seconds.What happens when you turn a taco 90 degrees.Ike's Paradox.Eating a rib straight up and down.Pizza sandwiches.Explaining to your dentist that your bottom jaw is a ruinous cavern because you eat ribs top to bottom.Adding a thickening agent to soup so you can turn the bowl sideways and just shove your face in there.Buying the Ultra Rare Cheeto Shaped Like Batman Crying just to flip it.A li'l cute ghostie with ears.Affection for bands that are bad.A rock album recorded by three kids who have no interest in or aptitude for writing and performing music.Art that lives at the very tips of the horseshoe ends.High fashion and weird looks that aren't meant to be for everyday.Music that sounds bad in a way that you don't recognize.Music that is boring and propulsive at the same time.Music that is not for listening to.Threatening your wife with a conversation about Beatles chord progressions.Making art that is boring in unexpected, interesting ways.Inventing a new boring version of interesting that still isn't interesting but is boring in interesting ways, which should make it interesting but doesn't.Finding a desert and falling in.Watching a purple meadow quiver and drinking whiskey beside a 100 year old cactus.Whether Joy is a trick.Blowing up your life and other people's lives as well.The other entendre.Yet another example of this fucking show.Cooking for the rest of your life without ever washing dishes.Joy that can't not be real.Poetry that's just really well-constructed prose.A poem that doesn't have any line breaks because then it wouldn't fit on Instagram.A true poet who accounts for swiping.An expression of a huge evocative idea built out of tiny ideas.How to be happy even when you are not actively chasing your dreams.A song that is famous in some way.That fuckin' Pina Colada song.Marrying the same person three or four times.Bouncing along and going on a fun road trip while the world is ending.Mystifying number one hits.Robot Mr. Feeny in your car and you go around solving mysteries together.Getting your wife a Groucho Marx nose for christmas.Robust dependable noses.Think On Thine Sins, Gumshoes.Giving the Latin Grammar Police the L.
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