March 30, 2020

23. Purpleface's Face Isn't Purple

1 hour 2 minutes

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Danny enjoys bananas.

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Lauren streams on Twitch and plays in The Returners.

https://twitter.com/laurentheflute

https://www.twitch.tv/laurentheflute

http://the-returners.com/

Topics

1:12 If every Tetris piece has a personality, which piece would you most prefer to be stuck with on a deserted island?

The History of Tetris Randomizers. https://simon.lc/the-history-of-tetris-randomizers

12:45 The sense of smell is most closely tied to memory. Are there any really strong associations you have?

Ulillillia's relationship with music: http://www.ulillillia.us/aboutme/music.shtml

TXT World: A Journey Of The Nose. https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet/status/1196511832220917760

"We carry the WORLDS LARGEST Selection of Scratch N' Sniff scents!" http://www.promobrands.com/scratchandsniffscents.htm

22:15 Convincing my son that sleep is a good thing when I don't believe it myself

28:46 Groke asks: "Transitioning from making art for its own sake to making it to keep a roof over your head (or vice-versa)"

Basil's Adventure. http://twinbeard.com/basil/

40:55 Why IS a raven like a writing desk?

https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1173/why-is-a-raven-like-a-writing-desk/

46:36 In the last week, what is the best thing that you have seen, done, and/or eaten?

New Study Reveals Just How Sick Families With Kids Get. https://gizmodo.com/new-study-reveals-just-how-sick-families-with-kids-get-1722654292

How butter chicken roti became a Toronto classic. https://www.thestar.com/life/food_wine/2019/08/13/how-butter-chicken-roti-became-a-toronto-classic.html

Microtopics:

Doing video game music.

Breaking a problem into subproblems.

An unusual form of synesthesia where you perceive Tetris pieces as personalities.

Making rude buzzer noises when the guest gets it wrong.

The Tetris I-piece being egotistical and always late when you need it most.

Siblings who are not identical but are mistaken for identical.

The stem cell of Tetris pieces.

The Tetris T-piece being useful for opening coconuts because it's shaped like a bottle opener.

Playing Tetris without realizing that you can rotate the pieces.

The Tetris T-piece standing for Trauma.

Not realizing you push B to run in Super Mario Bros. because it doesn't do anything when you're not moving.

The smell of candles reminding you of the holidays.

Finding the cologne that speaks to your soul and wearing it literally every day.

A cartoon character design except it's how you smell.

Bringing around an MP3 player to play your theme song on loop as you walk around campus.

Testing how long you can listen to the Bubble Bobble theme.

Eating only carrots for a week because you want to really feel the fine distinctions between each individual carrot.

The particular mix of sweat and grass that makes you think of playing soccer.

Not being able to think of the word for when the water in a river is extremely busy.

The idealized smells of Frog Fractions 2 where everything smells like candy because of all the bright colors.

Going to sleep being the worst thing but your son going to sleep being the best thing.

Reading your child books about sleeping to convince them that sleeping is a good thing.

Refusing to teach your child about how certain activities are for boys and some are for girls, but then they learn about it in school anyway.

Having vivid dreams and taking ideas from them to use in fiction.

Hating to go to sleep and hating to wake up so maybe what you actually hate is just the transition one way or the other.

Wanting to go to sleep but going into a depressive spiral instead.

Reminiscing about making art as a hobby.

Doing the same amount of work but not burning out because you change the kind of work you're doing.

Creativity through limitations.

Getting to the point where you can afford to say no to freelance projects.

Having an audience and feeling obligated to serve the audience literally all the time.

Making dinner as an act of creative fulfillment.

Baking intuitively by just putting ingredients in a pan until it feels right.

Giving your guest baker a challenge ingredient to incorporate into their cake.

Picking activities that force you to not be perfect.

Forcing everybody to read a sentence from your novel before they get a cookie.

Whether "smartass" is really a swear.

Finding 11 socks in your desk at the end of the school year.

Both a raven and a writing desk having legs, but different numbers of legs.

Whether desks lay eggs to reproduce.

Finding the image that is exactly halfway between a raven and a writing desk.

Never having been sick as often as when you worked in a bounce house birthday party place.

Schoolteachers no longer getting sick because they've gotten literally every disease.

Putting the curry inside of the flatbread like they do in Toronto.

The relief of seeing a stray cat you haven't seen in a while.

A cat named Purrcy.

Arranging music for a friend and your band mates being excited to record it.

Artists appreciating art you made for them more than non-artists would.

Giving grandma your new noisecore album for Christmas.

Grandma sticking your new noisecore album to the fridge with a magnet.

Someone asking to read your fiction and then actually reading it.

A gift secretly being a demand for the recipient's time.

A gift made not just for somebody but made with their needs in mind.

Laura, Lauren, Laurie, and Laurel all being the same name if you think about it.

Profundity on demand.

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