Have you ever wanted to follow the slow downhill spiral of a man losing everything and everyone he once loved to circumstances entirely outside of his control, ultimately ending in relative silence because life doesn’t give anyone anything exciting, only … Continue reading The Day Thread Tells You About Dances Moving
The year is 191X, pronounced “Nineteen Exteen.” The Great War has been raging on for a long, long time. Nobody is quite sure HOW long, but the general consensus is “enough.” Ceaseless years of blood, turmoil, ray gun research, gas … Continue reading Werewolves 85: 191X – Signups
It’s Ham Helmet Monday ! Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Mon 2/18 2019)
Season 6 Directed by Michael Hart Written by Robert Holmes After ninety-seven arduous episodes, we have finally come to the end. Not of the season or of the Second Doctor’s era (I’d hardly call them arduous, but we have one … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S06E06 “The Space Pirates”
Good morning and Happy President’s Day. Today’s question: Who is your favorite fictional president in all of pop culture? For me it’s President Whitmore from Independence Day. My tradition is to post his picture on Facebook every July Fourth – “the day … Continue reading Favorite Fictional President
Happy after-Valentine’s Day, everyone! In an unfortunate turn for Hallmark, Valentine’s Day landed on a Thursday which made the last film in their #CountdowntoValentinesDay air on the Saturday after said holiday. A bit strange considering it was filmed out of … Continue reading Hallmark Bonus: Love, Romance & Chocolate Recap/Review
Every day, there are scientists who travel miles underground to tend to their dark matter detectors. This may be old news to you; you may even, like me, be one of those scientists – nevertheless, I invite you to pause … Continue reading A Primer on Dark Matter Physics, Part 1
Sooooo, President’s Day. If you’re an American, that’s certainly a thing, right? Enjoy this emotional tribute: What did you do this weekend? Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?
That’s right, it’s National Drink Wine Day! Time to get out those wine glasses and drink to excess, because we all need it. Nothing else of importance is going on anyw–what’s that? It’s President’s Day? Oh, well then. Uh. This … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Celebrates The Holiday
This is the fifth in a series of video game tournaments to determine the best video game of all time (according to the Avocado)! Because this is such a broad category, and because of the difficulty in comparing, say, arcade … Continue reading Best Video Game Tournament – Millennial Years – Nominations
Ever thought about putting your house up for and AirBnB? If so, did you ever give a thought to the judgment potential renters might give you from your DVD collection? You don’t know how it got there. Maybe it was … Continue reading BnB Shame #9: Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Heya AvoGamers! We’re planning to record the next episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast this upcoming weekend (the 23rd or 24th of February), and we’d love for you to join if you’re available. Generally we prefer to record in the afternoon … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #45
Here’s a place to talk about the first season of Netflix’s Umbrella Academy adaptation. Continue reading The Umbrella Academy Season 1 Discussion Thread
As we approach the release of Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel, I wanted to share with everyone Uncanny X-men #164. Carol Danvers guest stars in this issue and it is the first appearance of her Binary Form. This is also the final … Continue reading Binary Star Night Thread
Episode Grade: B Going to start with a bit of a digression, but I promise I’m going somewhere with it. He’s got some competition, but Jimmy Pesto Jr. might be the trickiest character on Bob’s Burgers in that his most irritating … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers: S09E14 “Every Which Way But Goose”
“Blood Memory” With his P.I. shingle newly hung outside his office, J’onn welcomes new clients. Trying to take her mind off what happened at the D.E.O., Kara decides to team up with J’onn on his latest assignment, which unfortunately ends … Continue reading 2/17/19 Supergirl Live Chat
As I watch these episodes, I take notes. Normally I tap out a couple pages of MS Word and then write the actual review almost immediately after the episode ends. This works out well for the writing process. But with … Continue reading Legion, Chapter 18
The latest estimates are coming in for how this weekend shaped up and it’s going to be one with some unrealistic elements to it as this time last year saw the debut of Black Panther. That film did a whopping $202 … Continue reading Box Office: February 15-17
Since the PT thread has been overwhelmed by discussion of the roller coaster ride that is the Jussie Smollett situation, with no clear evidence to this point of exactly what happened and with tempers on the PT occasionally getting heated, … Continue reading Jussie Smollett Case Discussion Thread
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: Successes!
Oh dear. I wasn’t looking forward to this episode. Last time I watched this episode was a few years before the Harvey Weinstein scandal, and even then it was weird and uncomfortable not in a way that challenged my beliefs … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Six, Episode Nine, “Homer Badman”
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