Things you will endlessly lecture on if given the chance (aka woe to anyone who asks me about muppets when I'm drunk)

Hang on, forgot three.

- The history of the state of California
- The history of Sydney, Australia
- Teddy Roosevelt

- neko case
- johnny cash
- water resources law and property rights to water in australia
- sustainability policy and/or the triple bottom line
- the australian labor party
- our abominable local 'newspaper' (the west australian)
- the bell litigation
- the merits of harm minimisation in dealing with alcohol and other substance use problems
- corporate governance and corporate social responsibility

also
- driver errors/behaviour

two of the topics in my list formed the subject of two separate honours theses. Pity my friends. Astonishing they still speak to me at all really.

Just remembered:

- The Evils of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism

Twin Peaks
Sociolinguistics
Why we are all going to die and my apocolyptic nightmares that I hope never come true
Dresses
British magazine journalism 1980 - present day.
If I am very drunk: how wonderful you are and why I don't appreciate you enough.

- good nutrition & the state of food politics in contemporary north america (sometimes with added "phenomenology of food and what can heidegger tell us about how we eat" bonus) <--- guaranteed party-clearer

i got way too high last night and did this lecture basically in full in front of a few ppl i dont know that well and i think they dont ever want to talk to me again

i actually went to my room to get "the question concerning technology" to read bits of it to them

i must also drink with Kate and learn how in the hell she does it! I MUST KNOPW!

Marvel Comics 1972-1978
Frank Zappa

- ethanol/hydrogen fuel

i only lecture to audiences of more than 6 people

i have these other things called conversations tho

this thread makes me want to have sooo many conversations, or be a lecture audience. where do y'all live again?

Swedish film
Spanish film
Mystical philosophy
German film

haha rrrobyn congratulations on your fancy "social skills"

where do y'all live again?
http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v150/103/125/36910239/n36910239_35469211_4596.jpg

Hrotsvitha.

Also, that article I just read in, was it the Atlantic or Harpers? I forget. I didn't like it when I read it but I've been thinking a lot about it lately.

Tennyson.

Kids I teach, and teaching them.

- Any tangent that involves being devil's advocate in the current conversation

ha this is me

- triathlons
- the joys of junk food
- shitty parents
- shitty hipster music fans
- sex
- magazines, newspapers, and books
- why large organizations are doomed to fail
- the music business

i don't really speak unless i'm drinking

I dare you to find a more Muppety beat than this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUJyX62HTxc

Which is the victory song from their Gamecube game

Dig that bass!

public sector pension schemes and the variant strands thereof and the considerable differences between each

Public sector recruitment policy and the role played by public sector unions in determining said policy. And Robespierre.

and the link, presumably

Would that a link existed.

the public service loan forgiveness program

...and marble madness

hamlet

why bands in the local music scene aren't successful

-Whiskey
-Silent and early sound films

* alex trebek
* linguistics
* how much i hate andrew jackson
* whatever the hell i just read about on wikipedia (usually "on this day")
* jazz musicians nobody else has heard of

-pro-wrestling.

Yakuza games
The noise Morrissey makes in Rubber Ring pretending to be a lift
Whatever weird internet thing that I would never talk about normally

american wites

photography

kraftwerk

2001: a space odyssey

this is why no-one invites me to parties

multilingualism and minority languages

xp wkiw

full solidarity with fellow 2001 obsessives

ILX

I was really drunk on Saturday and I think the cab driver got a full hour on English history, Celts -> Normans w/ the occasional Brexit digression.

Virginia Woolf
Mid-career Elvis Costello
Lawns, why they are stupid
Local history
Cahokia
Patronizing sports bars while not even remotely liking sports
Stonewall Jackson's flank march at the battle of Chancellorsville
X-linked intellectual disability
Post-impressionist painting
Erotic thrillers
Eggs Benedict

Any topic about which I know slightly more than the listener(s) (thus exploiting my relative breadth of knowledge/interests without exposing its correlative lack of depth, what up my fellow mega-dilettantes)

Patronizing sports bars while not even remotely liking sports

opposite

dance dance revolution
babies, sorry

Haneke