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The final Grand Slam of the year, the US Open, kicks off today at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Use this thread to talk about the tournament, discuss players’ strategies, and live-chat matches. Stuff to watch: For … Continue reading 2026 US Open Discussion Thread
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Header image: a still from the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Poulenc’s Dialogue of the Carmelites. The year is 1600 or something. All music is church music. You can only write music for God. That’s the rule. What this one dude … Continue reading A Brief History of Opera
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Prestidigititis Memorial Thread Continue reading Prestidigititis Memorial Thread
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of R.E.M.’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) #16 and Worst: Around The Sun. Confession time: I have only heard this album 1.5 times or so. … Continue reading The Night Thread Ranks R.E.M.’s Albums: #16
It’s the AVoCADo GamesCast’s ten-year anniversary!!! That’s right, we’ve been at this for a decade. An entire decade of discussions, debates, and Randy Pitchford jokes. For our tenth anniversary, The Kappa and I decided to do a retrospective on some … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #122: Ten Years!!!
The latest episode of the first season of Lanterns has gone live through the HBO Max service, and we’re here for your discussion pleasure. The eight-episode series comes from Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King, with Mundy serving as … Continue reading Lanterns Season 1 Episode #4 Discussion
Hey folks! We’re recording the next episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast this coming Friday, September 11th, at 8:45 PM Eastern. We’ll be discussing Gamescom and the recent PlayStation State of Play. If there’s a Nintendo Direct next week, we’ll also … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #123
Jerry receives a van as a gift from an unstable friend and must work out how to get rid of it without hurting his feelings. Elaine dumps Puddy for a man who turns out to be a TV mascot. Kramer … Continue reading Seinfeld, Season Nine, Episode Five, “The Junk Mail”
The return of Zoidberg’s girlfriend! And also Hermes’s dad/pet coffee plant. Continue reading Futurama – Season 14, Episode 6 – “Late Bloomers”
Hello! Today I wanted to talk about bridges…with restaurants on top! Now you’ve all heard about buildings with restaurants, but these are a whole other thing entirely. So they’re pretty self-explanatory, and there are more around the world than I … Continue reading The September 6 Bridges With Restaurants Day Thread
Have fun posting! Continue reading The Night Thread Remembers The Site’s Greatest Moment
Synopsis from the MeTV website… “Scientists investigating an unusual meteor shower in a rural field are possessed by an alien force bent on an ulterior purpose.” Enjoy the movie! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 9/5/2026: They Came From Beyond Space
A surreal French film from Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, and a no less surreal cartoon starring Felix the Cat. Continue reading Public Domain Theater: L’Age d’Or (and “Felix the Cat Woos Whoopee”)
Get out into nature, and come back and show us what you find! Sunsets, hikes, vistas, flowers and wildlife, whatever ya got. Show off your green thumb! Or just brighten your weekend by looking at pretty things. Here are some … Continue reading The Nature Thread
Not quite Adventure Time, but with a comment section not much less off-topic than the old AV Club review ones. It’s Animation Time! What animated things have you been into lately? What’s a recent episode of something you saw that lacks a dedicated … Continue reading Animation Time
Finally, some matchups! Sort of. In culinary terms, Saturday is a groaning feast of side dishes and anonymous, church picnic caliber pasta. What can Indiana do for an encore? We’ll begin to find out early on against North Texas. I’m … Continue reading NCAA Football Week 1.2 Puts YOU In The Game
I intended to make this a brief meditation on the glories of dark humor, citing as an example a joke I wrote decades ago but improved only last week. I thought I could walk through the process of elevating an … Continue reading The Day Thread of Forcing Oneself to Go Nowhere Slowly
Lets get it out of the way at the start. I dont really care for Season 5 of Babylon 5. I am not alone in this. Most fans of the show feel that this is probably the weakest season, even … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“No Compromises”
Let’s see those pets! Continue reading The Pet Thread Needs Potassium
Howdy friends. This week we are talking about another Embertine OT post, the green jay. These birds live in southern Texas and the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Mexico including the Yucatan peninsula, as well as south into Belize, Guatemala … Continue reading The WPT has been at this a While
“The Last Hard Men” is a song by the Last Hard Men from the album The Last Hard Men (2001) Have a Great Night Thread, Avocado! Continue reading The Last Hard Men by the Last Hard Men from the Last Hard Men Night Thread
