EricaCaseyIsn't it great to have a coelom?Solving problems by waiting for another bigger problem to occur and override the previous problemMammals learning to eat cephalopodshttps://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/16/occasional-paper-when-armor-met-lips/A Narrow Fellow in the Grass, by Emily Dickinsonhttps://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a-narrow-fellow-in-the-grass-1096/Personal project retrospectivesThat thing you just heard.Assigning your new hire an office. Plugging over a million leaking gas and oil wells in West Texas.The Topic Lords Promise. A bag that your organs sit in. Undifferentiated tissues.How dissecting an earthworm is different from dissecting a gummy worm.Inflating your coelom in order to take out your spleen.Organisms with high diseectability.The anti-coelom lobby.Undifferentiated tubes of goo that get depression. The gummy worm future we're all looking forward to.Fluid things going on in the organism. A car that has a huge dent in it and it doesn't matter because the car still gets around no problem.Good car ideas.A bad thing happening but it's not your fault.Buying your house in a point and clock adventure online. Rediscovering all the things you have stored at your parent's house. Multi-episode Topic Lords story arcs.Which colored stripes are on Wikipedia's Non-Notable Flag.The Topic Lords explainer episode where everyone finds out what this show is about. Serial Podcast Monogamy. Podcast guilt.Discussing all the same topics as the last episode with no self-awareness. Non-Stop Coelom Celebration. My own very special walking bag of guts.Evolving cheek muscles to suck meat out of a spiral shell. Losing your baby lips. What it's like to eat a planarian.Cephalopods that have evolved to eat mammals. The giant squid that have never been seen alive.The colossal squid vs. the giant squid.Finding a mobius strip solution so borh your flag and your neighbor'a flag can be biggest.Our flag that represents limpness will be your downfall.Non-stop sensationalized documentaries about North Korea. Opening the border to North Korea so we can finally interview the people about the colossal squid.Emily Dickinson slipping into Yoda Speak.Being too busy reading to understand what you're reading. Whether the Emily Dickinson poem about the snake is actually about a snake or about a dick or both.It's coming at your feet! It likes a boggy acre!A polysexual attitude towards nature.Emily Dickinson making thousands of attempts to fix the Gilligan's Island theme. Herman Melville describing Moby Dick as "the Ebon Whale" because he didn't have Wikipedia. Moby Dick annotated by biologists who explain why all the whale facts are wrong. Game Developers doing a "post-mortem" of projects that are ongoing. Befunge.Clojure and other Lisps.Watching your own programming livestreams to learn how to learn better. A huge block of text off to the side that tells you how to play the game. Fine-grained tactical mistakes.Why people keep telling game developers to learn to ship a game.The most significant barrier between you and putting a work of art out in the world.Inventing metrics for success for game engines that never ship.Rewriting your game engine to have cooler tech but be way harder to make levels for.
Modern Jim-Style Content.Artists trash talking their own work while they're showing it to you.A sign on your forehead reading "ask me about my severely negative feedback."The George W. Bush childhood home. A community built on everyone's shared desire to leave.The ethic of owning a shotgun. The last of the Midland Odessa complaining.Big Bend and Carlsbad Caverns. An airport full of ads for oil wells and oil well accessories.The Chris Kyle American Sniper Memorial. A plaque on a sculpture explaining whether the flag represents a penis. Everything's a dick if you squint hard enough.An assassin of federal judges.
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