Follow along, won't you, on a wonderful adventure through the tedious process of writing and refining a piece of longform fiction.

Vulgarity and golden toilets.

Leonard sits down with Lance Sebastian Schmegegge, the Chief Operational Talent Scout Champion at Spaghetti Enterprises.

Anonymous conversation with a friend who we'll call "Howard," but basically only call him that just right now. Howard and I discuss Ulysses S. Grant, mountain taxidermy, old hard drives, the burden of anxiety, etc.

New MacBook, an unpopular opinion about the Statue of Liberty, and a call for women to come on the show, all mixed together with not a little audio distortion.

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A hopefully not completely sophomoric ramble about computers and how they aren't all that different from writing or art.

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Everyone thinks they could be a great president who's also funny, when really probably most people are only a bit funny and most would be lousy presidents.

Laura reads a story I wrote that we'll call "Veterans Affairs."