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Welcome to week 5 of The Escritoire! This is a space for Avocado members to submit in-progress writing for feedback. All writing is welcome. If you’ve written it, we’d like to read it! The rules so far: Try to post … Continue reading The Escritoire Week 5
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Hey everyone! Back on the Disqus days, we had a discussion about sexism on the Avocado. Highlighted issues at the time included overly aggressive flirting/innuendo, objectification of female celebrities, casual sexism, and playing Devil’s Advocate or denying sexism. I think … Continue reading Sexism on the Avocado: Part 2
Hey ebvyerone! Let’s pretend that our backpsace key is broekn and we don’t have autocorrect or anything to suggest the proper spelling! Express yourselc frely without feelinb beholden to the confomrist tyranny of tehcnology! LET ANRACHY ROLL! Continue reading The NIGhat Thead DOewn’t Care For Your Authocvorrect Aurhtorarisnm
Searching for the address in the newspaper, you drive through downtown Lunapool. It’s a weird town, home to a museum that used to be a library, a library that used to be a bank, a KFC, a Taco Bell, and … Continue reading Werewolves 64: Sears – Day 3
It’s time for another round of Muppet Casting, where we take a famous movie and ask, if Jim Henson’s Muppets made their own version of it (in the vein of The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island), which Muppets … Continue reading Muppet Casting – Jurassic Park
I had one job! Pet pics go here. Continue reading Pet Thread: Demands Better Looping Gifs (6/23)
This is the spoiler space for the middle stretch of Luke Cage. Anything from Episodes 1-9 is fair game, but I ask that discussion of episodes 10 and onward be marked or spoilered. One last thread for Episodes 10-13 (but … Continue reading Spoiler Space: Luke Cage S2 — EPISODES 5-9
And now, a list of things she doesn’t like me for: my car my money looking like Ralph Lauren Polo model Tyson Beckford having the charm of Robert Redford oozing out my ears my big screen my collection of DVDs … Continue reading The Day Thread likes me for ME 6/23
On June 20, 1949, Paul Robeson gave a speech at the so-called Paris Peace Conference, sponsored by the USSR. The American actor and singer, a leading black activist, was long associated with progressive causes, yet emerged from World War II … Continue reading How We Got Here: Paul Robeson’s Road to Peekskill
♪ Somewhere way under the rainbow Dragging round an empty pot of glue Bruised and confused it could happen to you Seeing for the first time that dreams can come true …. When childish habits are slow to die You … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Visits Planet Dearth
Costa Rica said goodbye, Nigeria gives hope to Argentina while the Swiss makes everything complicated And that’s how we arrive to Day 10, Germany will try to recover from an unexpected result, México will need to get down from cloud … Continue reading World Cup Russia 2018: Day 10, The Mannschaft Had a Glitch
1993. 25 years ago. It’s been 25 years since I first started reading superhero comic books. But I didn’t jump into them right away. I was a genteel lad. The only comics I had read at that point were of … Continue reading Uncanny X-Men 302 – My introduction into comic book geekdom
Marvelcado Comics Presents THE INVADERS #2 “Timely Heroes!” With a Special Guest Appearances by Captain America himself! PREVIOUSLY ON THE INVADERS Bucky Barnes awoke with a foggy memory and suddenly having to go on the run from SHIELD – accused … Continue reading THE INVADERS #2
Part of a series on YouTube shows that don’t suck. It’s-time-to-learn-Ge-o-gra-phy NOW! Political Geography Geography Now! came out of nowhere. In 2014, Paul Barbato just showed up on YouTube and started making profiles on every recognized sovereign state in alphabetical order– … Continue reading Geography Now! Night Thread
