You join us this time at Slice Pizza in Vestavia Hills near Birmingham AL. It’s a lovely pizza parlor with a satisfying pie. Topics include lit theory, movie theatres, smell from beer, milk, and slime from Doubledare Nickleodeon season one. What do the rich want? Eyes Wide Shut, AI, the movie. exploring Lolita, universal distaste and two tribes of mammals, magic of mammals falling in love with anything, A play (The Minutes) about indigenous people stealing the land from other indigenous people and a dark retelling of TV Show, Parks and Recreation. Star Raiders 1979 and Space Invaders, Mike’s 1992 year of videogames, Mike avoids plastic, Dirty Dancing, The Unforgiven, fyre festival, idea of blockbuster title being used to mean a tentpole event, perspective on current ennui, waiting for a culture with vision to enslave us.

Reality is very ironic. Mike feels like the Catcher in the Rye for Artistic niece.

Textbook conspiracy to turn us into products.

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