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

I lived in the Gem State when I was a kid but then we sold out and moved to glamorous Oregon, which is another place I like to talk about when i'm drunkened.

OMG where did you live? Probably Wallace, eh?

o ya

-why the Wire is the greatest thing ever
-why there are many great American television shows (generally only if someone slags off television or claims to 'not watch it', etc...)
-Richard II
-Henry II of England
-Girls Aloud are proof that chart pop is not dead (this might only happen at a Smiths-themed indie dance night)
-Previous to this season, why Bolton Wanderers are a fine football team, and how their 'tactics' aren't as horrible as many believed, and why it is great that a team on a limited budget has to do what it needs to, etc... (can't make many excuses this season, mind)

I mostly like the premium cable shows (Like Sleeper Cell and Dexter, the two Showtime shows I'm a big fan of)...

Granted there is a lot of idiotic television in the mainstream but the medium is enjoyable for programming because unlike a movie, they don't have to rush the story and can do more with character development as a result.

depoliticization of the common man
technology is morally neutral (in fact may even be considered immoral)
various theological issues
the wonders of saints
1857 war of independence aka sepoy mutiny

The Portland Trail Blazers
Ethiopia (warning: more enthusiasm than actual knowledge)
Japanese poetry
My kids
Bertolt Brecht & the early Brecht-inspired plays of John Arden
Colin Blunstone's vocal performance on "She's Not There"
"The Electric Company" & "Welcome Back, Kotter" (Muppets were already taken)

oh my god no wonder i have no friends

You can talk abt muppets, too, and have some drunken geexoring with Thermo Thinwall.

SQUARE ONE! is another I will love generously and verbosely, PBS kids' show abt math...I was thinking of starting a thredd on it

-the art of ray caesar
-why 'dirty realist' writers like carver, wolff, bukowski et al are not boring
-the horrors of working in customer service

ps. did you totally love fraggle rock?

(ps. was to abbott)

Dued, eternal love for the Fraggle Rock. And Jim Henson's Storytellers!

- ecology and why environmental/public health is, like, important, man (ARMCHAIR)
- how epidemiology is actually super-cutting-edge and basically just the statistical analysis of phenomenae(ARMCHAIR + W33D)
- alpine style v. siege style and why the difference is RELEVANT and IMPORTANT
- why The Great and Secret Show (VII 5.11 A4 WI) is just as worthwhile and important as some stupid painting a jerk made or a stupid Bob Dylan album, even though it's just some guys being hungry in a portaledge on baffin island
- continental v. martime snowpack
- weather is actually the most amazing and awe-inspiring thing going, and we ignore it at OUR PERIL

fraggle rock was the best

Oh man wld totally chat for hours abt epidemiology

I kind of had a crush on all the male fraggles

at age 5

I also think I might adopt this because HILARIOUS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur

- Any tangent that involves being devil's advocate in the current conversation
- Why the crap liquor you think is awesome really isn't
- Hunter S. Thompson, how he is misinterpreted by idiots
- The use of liquor and drug to detach, or alternatively interpret, social politics
- Combination of last two topics
- What a scam fossil fuels, biofuels, and processed food are, yet how I work for a company involved with the latter two
- Differences in computer technologies and how people can't design a usable interface

(wiki article leaves out the part where the rig crew got stuck drilling at 1250 feet - after pulling out the drill, it started hopping up and down at heights of five to ten feet - said drill weighed 40 tons btw - and only AN HOUR LATER did they abandon the rig after noticing it was listing a bit to one side. from shore, said crew then watched entire oil rig disappear into a lake which had up until that morning been about 6-7 feet deep)

mh and I would either get along real well over some dranks or we'd kill each other

Maybe both! My normal conversations are usually seen as 'arguments' by some because I think that if things are worth talking about, they're worth picking apart! Oddly enough, I do this less the more I drink and just start thinking everything is pretty great.

The historical importance of Highcross Street in Leicester.

I have had two people LITERALLY kill themselves in front of me while I went on and on about this to them recently. Never go out for a drink with me.

^WAHT

literally?????

Yes, it was horrific. I had just started on the later part of the nineteenth, when, as I'm sure you will be aware, the streets importance began to seriously decline with the loss of the county jail.

When I say "killed themselves" it was more like a murder/suicide.

My ability to lecture people about Leicester will surely result in only more carnage, I should seek help really.

Also "Why parts of Norfolk and Suffolk should be left to fall into the sea - and not the parts everyone thinks, either..."

- The Wire
- Galaxies, astrophysics (but not cosmology or quantum mechanics or other bong-hit pop sci, which is the only bit of my job anyone actually wants to talk about at parties)
- Why satsumas are the best citrus fruit and how people who confuse them with mandarins or (especially) clementines are worse than paedophiles
- If you or I were in a film, who would play us?
- The film Shadowlands

There is a great McSweeney's list about this called something like "Topics my father will talk about at great length if mentioned". I will copy it out when I get home.

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!