“Six years ago, we released The Puntigamer Hypothesis. It was a turning point, it was an axis mundi in the Entropy Circus landscape. Everything that followed it was an implicit addendum.” Krishna is deep inside his schtick. He adjusts his thick-rimmed spectacles with the awareness of a man who was spent too much of the last two years on ZOOM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“He was going to say “addenda” but I coached him on this.” Kitchener swats a wasp that has the face of Lester Bangs and grinds it into the carpet with her heel. “We’ve come a long way, yeah? This is our third album this year\u2026”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Second album, Sally.” Kirchner raises a large defensive hand. “Sure there’s Zwischenbr\u00fccken one and two, but they’re an extended gestalt.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Tell us more, Slomo.” Kitchener types idily on her sysex calculator. “Really! I’m interested.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“That was it really,” says Kirchner, “it’s an extended gestalt.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“And The Puntigamer Hypothesis was an extended gestalt too, isn’t that correct?” Kitchener stops typing and gives Krishna an interested expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It’s all extended gestalts really. All the way down. Some of the extended gestalts have their own annexes and mezzanines. And at the end of the day: why shouldn’t they?” Krishna searches around for a lost Biro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I really have no idea. But if this is the sorry underpass we’ve come to, are we going to consider the next six years of recordings as a fat stack of addenda to The Ottakringer Protokol? Is that how we roll?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“You seem upset about this, Sally.” Kirchner extends a consoling hand and then withdraws it abruptly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n