Do you know what turds do when it’s blown by the wind? The same thing that happens to everything else. It’s the SPOIL SPORTS for Venom, the “highly” “anticipated” movie featuring Spider-Man’s spare black alternate uniform that he found on … Continue reading SPOIL SPORTS: Venom
October 4th is the birthday of Buster Keaton, one of the greatest actors and directors in movie history. Since October is the time for horror movies, I decided to focus on one of his lesser known short films, 1921’s The … Continue reading Scott OT #133: The Night Thread Spends a Night in a Haunted House (10/4)
Welcome to the discussion space for The Good Place! What does Trevor have planned for our friends? Will Eleanor+Tahani happen? Is Simone in on it? Talk about it here! Continue reading The Good Place Season 3 Episode 2
Instructions! Ask any kind of question relating to any kind of Pop Culture anything. It can be in-universe, it can be about the making-of, it can be about whatever you want. something at the tip of the tongue, a half … Continue reading Pop Culture Reference Desk – Four dozen
Round and round and round we go…we do this cycle, every time, over and over, we kill and argue and fight and love and…live and loss and… The void opens, and before you can even blink, you are here. The … Continue reading Werewolf 72: I Am Everything That Happens: Day 5 – “The Carousel”
In about 1770 B.C.E. Zimri-Lim, the King of Mari (a small Kingdom in what is now Iraq) married his oldest daughter off to a neighboring King. When she failed to produce an heir in a timely fashion, he sent a … Continue reading The Contras: The Kids Are Alright
Jeopardy! recap for Thur., Oct. 4 – Let’s meet today’s contestants: – Sara, a communications manager from North Carolina, was in an R-rated musical parody of “Silence of the Lambs”; – Kian, a high school history teacher from New Jersey, … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Thur., Oct. 4
Let’s use this space to share and discuss horror movie trailers that really freaked you out. Continue reading Horror Movie Trailers That Freaked You Out
Welcome back to the weekly D&D and Tabletop RPG thread! Here’s a place where we can talk about Dungeons & Dragons or any other nerdy table-top RPGs that you might be into. Tell us about the games you’re playing, speculate … Continue reading AvocaD&D and Tabletop RPG Thread: Curse of Strahd Campaign Journal, Week 12
Nearly two decades since boasting his business cards, Christian Bale has come back from returning those videotapes as an American Psycho. No, not that psycho. Or that one. I’m referring to ol’ Iron Ass himself, Darth Dick Cheny! Written and directed … Continue reading Trailer Talk: Christian Bale Once Again Dons the Bateman Cowl in Vice
Hello friends. Another puzzle, this time a Crossword! (Kinda.) First, the answers to last week’s puzzly quiz. Three of the answers weren’t arrived at by anyone, so that warmed my heart a bit. The answers are below, and the bolded answers … Continue reading So You Think You Can Think: Puzzle 9
Some guidelines to help this space be a positive experience for everyone: ☮ As always with the Avocado, don’t feel compelled to share beyond your comfort level. ☮ Anyone who identifies as female, or who was socialized female/AFAB/otherwise has firsthand experience with … Continue reading The Women+ Thread Opens the Floor
Hey true crime fans, want to talk with your fellow Avocados about a favorite case, a recent piece of news, a podcast you’re catching up on, a documentary, on anything else true crime? Welcome to the weekly true crime open … Continue reading True Crime-ocado: A Weekly Discussion For All Things True Crime
Hey friendos! The tournament officially begins after a day of frenzied nominations. I think we have an interesting competition, and hope we all get to enjoy it. Remember this is for fun. Here’s the bracket as it stands. Sorry for … Continue reading Horror Tournament: Round 1
if you could transplant a character from one show to another, who would it be? What other changes would you make to a trek show, or to Discovery going forward? Continue reading This Week in Trek: Course Corrections
As steaming services play a bigger and bigger role in the film and television industry, a lot of attention is going to their original content–but mainly streaming television shows. What about streaming movies? What hidden gems or washed up flops … Continue reading Hold The Dark (Netflix, 2018)
From the Marvel Comics Wiki – “Marvel Zombies is a five-issue limited series published from December 2005 to April 2006 by Marvel Comics. The series was written by Robert Kirkman with art by Sean Phillips and covers by Arthur Suydam. It was the first series in the Marvel Zombies series of related … Continue reading Marvel Zombies Day Thread
Sorry about my day delay here everybody, but here is our thread for the week. Last week saw one of our undefeated titans go down, leaving just NUME as the lone undefeated team left in our league (in a super … Continue reading Week 5 Avocado Fantasy Football
So let’s talk about manga-to-motion picture adaptations! Common knowledge is that American studios should not try to do it. Most of the time you get hot messes like the American adaptation of Dragonball Z or Ghost In The Shell or … Continue reading Made Overseas: Bleach (2018)
10/3/2018 – Hungary: Taxidermia (2006) Directed by György Pálfi For our final mini-theme of the month, we have reached location. It was the main theme of 2015 and thus far, forty-five nations have been represented. We have hit almost every major cinema … Continue reading Month of Horror 2018: A/S/L – Hungary: Taxidermia
