Making things, the history of prints and printmaking, mythology, mysticism, gnosticism, evolutionary psychology, the entheogen theory of religion, mystery cults, alchemy, Vodou, scatological humor, eschatological humor, the Crabs at the End of Time, the Black Death, The Golden Girls, Leonard Cohen, philosophy, cryptozoology, politics, propaganda, consumerism, episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation featuring Q, karaoke, apocalypticism, virtue, virtuosity, extra firm tofu, dancing, playing the kalimba, Air America Radio, centaurs, staging drag shows with Ken dolls, Warner Sallman, thrift stores, unintentionally hilarious ceramic effigies of meat products, Marcel Duchamp's Étant Donnes, and the sound of cats eating.