113. Only You in Particular Can Prevent Forest Fires

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! Lords: Danny https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer/ April https://twitter.com/aprilsaur Topics: Favorite desserts for when it's hot out The horror of almost being older than Princess Diana The developer of Abraham Lincolnland has gone on to run a business selling shirts with Vaporwave Abraham Lincoln's Face on them. http://www.lincolnsoft.com/games/all/ https://lincolnapparel.com/ I Would Like to Describe by Zbigniew Herbert https://poets.org/poem/i-would-describe Irish surnames as American girl names Words that you misunderstood as a child and how that affected your life Jordan Mechner calling E.Y. Harburg on the phone https://jordanmechner.com/archive/#2009-11-rainbo Microtopics: Priming with a prompt. Using the Inception noise too much so Christopher Nolan angrily accosts you and you can get his autograph. A selection of nice suits. The swirl of the chocolate and vanilla duo. So classy but also so messy. The counter with fifty different ice creams in buckets. 99. A stick of flaky wispy chocolate that you stick into your ice cream. The two biggest KLF fans in America. Mid-Atlantic Podcast Time. Ordering a hot latte in the middle of Summer. Realizing it's winter and going back into the coffee shop and asking the barista to put your iced coffee in the microwave. The treat that you would least like to have in the summer. Hanging your Christmas Pudding from a clothesline. Hollywood Pudding. The Devil's Sandwich. A fancy lad who eats nothing but olives and fig newtons. Morbid Distance Markers. Royalophilia. One princess dies and TV becomes useless for days The ethical considerations of faking a news segment. The last time you'll ever think about Princess Diana. All your dead relatives living in your head. Never saying your child's name on the internet. What body part is touching the poison oak in this metaphor. Refusing to go outside without an EpiPen. Abraham Lincoln fighting Nazis in the cyberpunk future. Bringing back beards for presidents. A 60-page readme about how to run this game in various driver configurations. Sitemaps. Selling shirts with Abraham Lincoln's face on them at Milwaukee Marker Fair. Going full neon. Covering the entire surface of the shirt with a garish vaporwave pattern. Describing courage without involving a dusty lion. Drawing a single original word from your breast, like a rib. Falling asleep with your hand in a mound of planets. A fleeting moment of recognition that is often very centering. Standing at the limits of language. Word tattoos. Mostly salt up top. Describing a moment or a feeling or a concept that is unrelenting in your mind. Using a trembling glass of water emoji but nobody knows whether you mean anxiety or an approaching T-Rex. His and Hers Mound of Planets Tattoos. The Irish guy in the room. Paying respect to your Irish heritage by naming your daughter "McPhee." 8 out of the top 10 baby names of 2020. Having a reaction that nobody else is having. Don't Start Fires mascots. Thinking that Smokey the Bear is instructing you to start forest fires because you don't know what "prevent" means. Only you in particular can prevent forest fires. Whatever flips your boat. One of those weird European psychological horrors. Ha-Ha Hollywood. Wanting information and figuring out how to get it. John Romero still having the Apple 2's memory layout memorized 40 years later. Trying to remember if you've done a podcast. A cat trying to get you to come to bed. Only grace tweets. Overwatch boops. Overwatch: Global Offensive.