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- http://glowhno.com/
Avery

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Every day since 1981 Yuri Borisovich Norstein and his wife Francheska Yarbusova have worked on their masterpice--an animated adaptaion of Gogol's short story The Overcoat. They couple is now in their 80s and will most likely never complete their film.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overcoat_(animated_film)
Video game urban legends
- https://vimeo.com/91436410
- https://saint-arthur.tumblr.com/post/146680746144/riding-immortal-on-the-seeking-road
Bay Area Airport Naming Drama
The Only Animal by Franz Wright
- https://april-is.tumblr.com/post/89794820/april-25-2008-the-only-animal-franz-wright

Microtopics:

Loving only the parts you don't hate.
Finishing the whole pack of Red Vines because you refuse to let them defeat you.
An album you haven't put on Spotify.
You know. Those podcasts.
The sort of thing we don't do around here.
Holding up cue cards so the guests know what to say.
Reading all 180,000 messages in the Frog Fractions 2 ARG solvers discord.
The tech company you're applying to sending you all the Enron emails, saying "review these before the interview"
Mysteries, Easter eggs, and rose-tinted glasses.
Hedgehog in the Fog.
Arduous animation processes.
Working on an animated feature by yourself for over 40 years.
Great Family Entertainment.
A story about a guy who has everything he needs who dies while trying to buy an overcoat.
A huge pack of Red Vines that you and your wife have been eating since 1981.
Burning yourself out very quickly if you don't put guardrails in place.
Perfectionists throwing away years of work because it's not good enough.
DJs who still spin vinyl and other artists who choose to do things the hard way.
Enveloping yourself in an emotion.
Refusing to break character for the entire time you're making the Youtube documentary.
Putting away art you're having a hard time with and coming back to it later.
Everything that happened between the Sigil Master and Austin Walker.
Losing track of whether art looks good.
The fine line between pacing yourself and torturing yourself.
The statue in the background of Frog Fractions that turns red when you're on Mars.
Encouraging people to have whimsy.
Space Knight Rom.
Snagglepuss the 1950s playwright.
Back when you could make up a video game rumor and not have it immediately debunked.
GTA San Andreas urban legends.
Windows Movie Maker transition screens.
Gravitating towards the unknowable.
Self-destructing music.
Scarcity and unknowability.
Buying an album from the record shop and perusing the indie record label catalog that comes with it.
Searching for the 16th colossus.
Forming a small community and feeling communal with them.
Playing games with a group of friends like a book club.
An MMO full of ARGy type stuff.
Automatically grouping people into a puzzle solving community.
Being paralyzed by the sheer amount of information that you don't know.
What's going on with the iGlyphs?
Finding evidence of the Jejune Institute on a telephone pole.
Painstakingly making the 7th Frog Fractions game, 45 years from now.
The history of Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name.
Game secrets that can't be ruined by one jerk with a decompiler.
Sleep No More.
Getting pulled into a secret compartment during an interactive play.
Multi-city zombie larps.
The Oakland Airport renaming themselves to the San Francisco Bay International Airport and then later the lawsuit becoming the Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.
Bay Area topology.
San Francisco and South San Francisco.
The Unincorporated Area of San Mateo County International Airport, or UAOSMCIA.
American cities named after European cities.
The Bass Pro Shop Pyramid in Memphis, TN.
Filling a 32-story disco pyramid with sports equipment.
Fry's Electronics.
Another episode of Topic Lords where we read from Wikipedia.
A huge empty building with paintings of Mayan gods holding torches that used to be an electronics store.
One more way in which people forget about San Diego.
The only animal that brushes its own teeth
A monkey wearing a spacesuit trying to smoke a cigarette through the face shield.
The only animal that smokes cigarettes. (Todd, who works down at the warehouse.)
Meeting your estranged dad when at the awards show when you're both up for the same Pulitzer.
Whether that fuckin' awesome monkey is a Bored Ape.
Whether Google Image Search is making up images yet.
That time Ryan North and his dog got stuck in an empty swimming pool and turned it into an interactive text adventure.
By the time you've smelt it, they have dealt it.
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