In my conversation this week with Huntsville, Alabama, artist Taylor McLendon I do my best to scare him with tales of snow in April. I think it worked?

This is what it looked like. I mean, it’s pretty. But a little late in the year.

Among the other subjects we discussed are fluffy pancakes, the criminalization of human cloning (super necessary, don’t you think), a Secretary of Education who doesn’t know the difference between AI and steak sauce (no, really), a bill to encourage people with suicidal thoughts to temporarily surrender their firearms, school cellphone bans (Taylor and I disagree on that one), the Beautiful Rainbow Cafe, and the South’s annoying habit of voting for “don’t say gay” bills.

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