On September 27, 1994, R.E.M. released the album Monster. Where previous albums had relied on a more folksy sound, for Monster, the members of R.E.M. decided to make a rock album. This being R.E.M., it wasn’t exactly straight-forward hard rock, … Continue reading Monster Night Thread (9-27)
“Dad’s BBQasa” is the first episode of the 2nd Season of the USAmerican television situation comedy Dad’s Casa. The plot centers on Dad’s annual neighborhood BBQ party. The popularity of this episode led the producers to have a BBQ episode each … Continue reading Dad’s Casa S2E01- Dad’s BBQsa
The great thing about the Marble Rally is that every race is different from the previous one. Whereas last week’s race was a knockout brawl that saw several marbles fail to reach the end of the track, this week’s is … Continue reading Marble Rally 2019: Race #2
Business-wise, this all seems like appropriate business Continue reading BoJack Horseman Season 6 trailer reaction thread
Back in the day SheepLauncher used to do weekly recaps of Dan Savage’s sex and relationship advice podcast, The Savage Lovecast. There was a generally pretty healthy commenting community on those threads, and I enjoyed them very much. But about … Continue reading Savage Lovecast
Due to a sudden health decline of Guest Editor Iggy and an according shift in priorities (nearly all of them involving a new obsession with my cat’s junk), I have been forced to reschedule our previously scheduled magazine write-up. The review of Yahoo! Internet Life from 2001 will be posted in two weeks. Apologies from the editorial staff of Let’s Read Old Magazines. But hey, I still have some cool old stuff to share this week. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to check out a huge pile of Fortune magazines from the 30s and 40s! Here are … Continue reading Old Magazines Is Taking Sick Leave
GIFs – or Good Ittybitty Films* are always fun. Why not post some? 1- Post a SFW (or spoilered) gif 2- Identify the source 3- ??? 4- Profit! *So is clearly pronounced Gif not Jif Continue reading Identify This Gif
Introducing today’s contestants: – Laurel, a graduate student from Florida, will have her novel out in 5-10 years; – Steve, a psychology professor from Florida, raps about anything, including Canada; and – Gabe, a researcher from Washington, D.C., has hundreds of thousands of baseball cards and might buy Ted Williams from Alex. Gabe is a one-day champ with winnings of $22,400. Laurel extended her lead to nearly $13K on DD2, then Gabe doubled up on DD3 to close the gap. Going into FJ it was Laurel with $18,400, Gabe at $15,600 and Steve with $12,200. DD1, $400 – MUSEUM-PODGE – … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Sept. 27
Oh, like I wasn’t going to use this. Hey, all; Happy Friday – In the annals of the JRT, it should come as a shock to no-one that one of the most popular subjects/causes of our collective wailings … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 9/27/2019 – No Bad News
Yo, let’s talk about this. Spider-Man Will Stay in the Marvel Cinematic Universe PLOT TWIST. 🕷#SpiderMan will stay in the MCU…for now. pic.twitter.com/tLSFuF8sYn — Complex (@Complex) September 27, 2019 Continue reading Spider-Man Will Stay in the MCU
Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Shuffle Thread, your favorite place to show off your shuffles! Today the shuffle is twice as nice, because TWO is our word of the day! Take a look through your … Continue reading The Weekly Shuffle Thread TWO: Electric Boogaloo
War with the Newts is a science fiction novel written by Czech author Karel Čapek and first published in 1936. On a small island near Sumatra, an ageing, alcoholic ship’s captain discovers a colony of over-sized newts able to walk … Continue reading The War With The Newts Day Thread (27 September 2019)
Hello, ‘cados, and welcome to a new thread I’m trying: The Green Thread! Like probably a lot of us, I’ve been taking a look at ways I can reduce my own carbon footprint (while recognizing that what we really need … Continue reading The Green Thread
It’s Casual Friday at the Strip Club Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Fri 9/27/2019)
Never in a million years would I have believed that when I left Phoenix, AZ to relocate to Long Beach, CA my journey would end with me buying a house in Tucson, AZ a mere thirteen months later. When I … Continue reading My 13 Months in L.A. – An Illustrated Essay
Welcome to a series that I am continuing. I am going to go through Neil Gaiman’s now-classic series The Sandman. Issue # 44 Title: Brief Lives Part 4 Artist: Jill Thompson & Vince Locke Collected in: Brief Lives Plot: … Continue reading Comic Book Canon: The Sandman. Issues 44-46
Welcome back to Franchise Festival, where we explore and discuss noteworthy video game series from the last four decades. Older entries can be found here. This week we’ll be scrupulously unspooling the second half of the Ultima story, covering roughly 1992 to … Continue reading Franchise Festival #69: Ultima (Part Two)
This is it, the definitive answer to what is the greatest video game of all time (as decided by an Avocado popularity contest). In this corner, we have Portal One of the most universally beloved games of all time The … Continue reading Best Video Game of All Time, Finals!
Hello! It’s Friday, and there’s new music. But you know that already, how nice of Firday to always have new music. Today has a new album by The New Pornographers worth getting excited about, a new Tegan & Sara album, and probably a ton … Continue reading Friday New Music 9/27
Can the first person here each day create a Results thread so it’s always first when sorted by Oldest? That will make it much easier to track results. Quiz Type: Forced Order Quiz Note: *Alive as of the end of … Continue reading Triviacados: Friday, September 27, 2019
Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! Excuse the really stupid title, please. It just seemed to work on a bunch of different levels for a fleeting moment. Night thread, etc. Anywho, we have the rusty gears of democracy turning, the whistles blowing, the committees assembling. You could almost be forgiven for thinking you travelled back in time to 8:30am outside of a Pittsburgh steel mill. With any luck, this somehow ends up with ol’ Trumpy getting tossed out of the White House onto his (t)rump, but we’re not quite there yet, and we have yet to see how far the … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Gets Removed From Orifice
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