Hughie Lee-Smith (1915-99) was a prominent African-American painter of the twentieth century whose work dealt not only with the problems and circumstance of marginalized communities but also the anomie and alienation often found in post-WW2 America (as in 1953’s The … Continue reading Hughie Lee-Smith Day Thread
Yep, it’s Monday again Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Mon 2/25 2019)
This weekend I finished season two of The Dragon Prince. I wish a show like this had existed when I was a young teen obsessed with elves and dragons (now I’m a creepy middle aged man obsessed with elves and dragons). … Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?
The Israeli government has called for a general election to take place on April 9, 2019. Accordingly, I’ve decided to continue my series on Israeli politics. It is available as a video below, but if you can’t watch or would … Continue reading Israeli Election Coverage, Part V: Scandal
Venezuela, as we may all know now, is basically tearing itself apart over Maduro’s refusal to accept the reality that he really, truly sucks. Lil’ Marco Rubio apparently thought tweeting a still from a snuff film was an acceptable response … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Just Going Crazy
This is part one of the round of 128 for the Millennial Years generation of video games, covering games roughly between 2000-05 including the PS2, GameCube, Xbox, Dreamcast and GBA. Note that this is only half of the games. Please … Continue reading Best Video Game Tournament – Millennial Years – Round of 128, Part One
To celebrate my third anniversary (and because How to Train Your Dragon 3 looks so damn good), I decided to dust off an old list I made: top 10 dragons! I decided to limit it to one dragon per franchise … Continue reading Scott OT #169: Dragons (A Night Thread) (2/24)
I hope Cookie Monster doesn’t mind. I saw no review went up so I figured better late than never. So, I’m loving this season of Discovery. After a rough grimdark start in season one, season two is much more … Continue reading Star Trek: Discovery S2E6: The Sound of Thunder
Winners will be bolded as they are announced. Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, Vice Marina de Tavira, Roma Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk Emma Stone, The Favourite Rachel Weisz, The Favourite Best Documentary Feature: Free Solo Hale County This … Continue reading 91st Academy Awards Live Thread
“You know what would buck up morale?” says Lt. Trout at sundown. “An old-fashioned sing-along.” She runs down to the bunker and comes back with a guitar that has a few bullet holes in it. “Nothing does a heart good … Continue reading Werewolves 85: 191X – Day 3
The release of the third and final installment of the How To Train Your Dragon film series with The Hidden World has done well for Universal. The film had a franchise-best debut with a $55.5 million take for its three-day total. It’s … Continue reading Box Office: February 22-24
If you’re like me, you spend your weekends catching up on a lot of housework you didn’t do during the week. So, here is a place is a place to commiserate, ask for advice, or maybe brag about how clean … Continue reading Weekly Cleaning Thread #4: Bathrooms
The thing I’ve really grown to like about this show while doing this project is how good it’s gotten at flowing from one theme to another without feeling totally disconnected. One of my first complaints about the show was all … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Six, Episode Ten, “Grampa Vs Sexual Inadequacy”
Title says it all, pretty much. Share your favorite comments of the last few weeks! Continue reading I Went to Disneyland and All I Got Were These Lousy Treasured Memories Comments of the Week
Arrowverse Review Index Supergirl 4×12: “Menagerie” review This week in the Arrowverse, Flash and Arrow are on hiatus, but Supergirl is back! . . . For one week. Then it’s off again to make room for the Oscars. The CW’s … Continue reading This Week In The Arrowverse: 02/18/2019 – 02/24/2019: “I Shall Take My Mind-Mazes And Go”
Welcome to our sophomore travel thread! Seems like we landed on having this as a monthly thread, so you can expect it to be published on the last Sunday of every month. Last month we talked about where we’d be … Continue reading Avocado Travel Thread (Feb. 24, 2019)
Going out to dinner for a friend’s birthday tonight, I have no idea where. I’ll report back later (even if the thread’s burned out). What have you been eating this week? Continue reading Sunday Food Thread 2/24
It’s February 24th, which marks the third anniversary of my first Avocado post, a discussion on a Criterion firesale (I bought Inside Llewyn Davis and the original Insomnia for it). (so damn good) I’d make a joke about this being … Continue reading Scott OT #168: The Day Thread Salutes Three Years of Scott Shitposts (2/24)
ALL PRAISE THE GARBAGE APE!!!! Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Sun 2/24 2019)
While I know the majority of the reviews on this site are for films that have been long out of the theater (if they were ever even in the theater), I don’t typically do reviews for films that I watch at … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
In 1994, Apple Records and the BBC combined forces to unlock the gates of unreleased recordings being issued officially with the two CD release of Live at the BBC. These songs, recorded from 1963 to 1965, owe their existence to … Continue reading Album Spotlight: The Beatles—The BBC Recordings
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