Hot of the pod! We visited the preview of Takashi Murakami’s exhibition “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. We discuss isolationism, nationalism, adults telling teenagers the best use of their creativity is to participate in capitalism and pigeons getting it on in the park.

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Lecture Notes:

Mies van der Road

Tips and TripTiks

I wish I could colonize the world with a Coke

The isolationist turn

Playing into Russia’s hands

New scandal suffixes

Yippies, you know, like violent hippies

France isn’t just French people anymore

The Full English Brexit

Jumpin’ into a pool of money like Scrooge McDuck

At least I know I’m ambivalent

DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I’M NOBODY

Art networking vacation trips

Spaghetti and resin in a swirl

We’re all on two medications

The diagonal line that prevented Erik’s fandom and defined Nina’s high school years