In the last thread, we learned how Head made her way from high school language teacher to an ascendant star in the world of costume design through a combination of luck and hard work. Continue reading The Classic Film Thread: Edith Head’s Hollywood
If you’re a classic film fan – or even if you’re not, and have only watched a handful of older films – it won’t take very long before you encounter the name Edith Head. For this week’s thread and the next, we’ll take a look at her life in the world of film, which spanned several decades, from the burgeoning world of talkies all the way to a Steve Martin comedy classic. Continue reading The Classic Film Thread: Costumes by Edith Head
You know how sometimes you have an ambition to write a really detailed and well researched Night Thread about avant-garde performer Klaus Nomi, but then sometimes you get wracked by the worst allergies you’ve ever had in your life and … Continue reading Da Huuuudge Night Thread
For a brief period during The Great Depression, it seemed that color film was destined to be a fleeting novelty. It was too costly to justify, and not an especially big driver of ticket sales. Perhaps this was due, in part, to the limitations of Technicolor’s technology. The combination of red and green could get a lot done, but it wasn’t quite reflective of the world as we saw it. Continue reading The Classic Film Thread: Color by Technicolor!
To understand color in film, we have to first understand a little bit about how color works. I’ll try and make this as brief and as simple as possible, as this is a topic that can get into eye-glazingly boring and dense territory with terrific speed. Continue reading The Classic Film Thread: Early Color in Film
Have you ever signed up to do something and then forgot you signed up and then scramble to fulfill your obligation? Anyway here’s a cool wizard I drew. Continue reading Doodle Wizard Night Thread
Sammo Hung (born in 1952 as Hung Kam-bo) might be a familiar face if you watched CBS in the nineties, but is probably a stranger to most of us. If you like Jackie Chan or Hong Kong kung fu films, you’d better read on, because Sammo was a pivotal part of their rise. Continue reading Watchin’ TV w/ Admirax Night Thread, Channel Five
Baskets is back-skets! Continue reading Baskets: S4E1 “Cat People”
Hey, all! By the time you read this, I’ll be in Japan! I’m excited as heck. Last thread we talked about some travel mistakes we’ve made and what we learned from them. Enchanting Wizard of Rhythm pointed out that it’s … Continue reading Avocado Travel Thread (May 26, 2019)
I, uh… I forgot to do this last month. Well, better late than never! At the end of our England trip, my boyfriend and I were late for a plane at Gatwick and ended up being denied boarding. $700 later … Continue reading Avocado Travel Thread (May 5, 2019)
(full disclosure – I actually wrote this as a segment for the show I co-produce, Mixer Red Show. If it sounds like this was written with a script-like tone, that’s because it was. I wasn’t 100% happy with the way … Continue reading Watchin’ TV w/ Admirax Day Thread, Channel Four
Bienvenido a la Avocado Travel Thread! Last month we talked about the vacation spots we’ve hit that we didn’t expect to enjoy as much as we did – Wallis Lane discussed their honeymoon stop in Assisi, Lynn McKenzie mentioned one … Continue reading Avocado Travel Thread (Mar. 31, 2019)
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)
Welcome to the inaugural travel thread, friends! This will be a recurring thread to discuss your favorite (or least-favorite) trips in the past, trips you’re currently taking, and trips you’re going to take! I’ll come up with a prompt for … Continue reading Avocado Travel Thread (Jan. 27, 2019)
Finally, we’ve arrived at a channel number on which you’ll actually find something to watch! Nanette Fabray was a singer, dancer, and comedic actress, perhaps best known for her role on Sid Caesar’s Caesar’s Hour. Born in San Diego to a … Continue reading Watchin’ TV w/ Admirax Night Thread, Channel Three
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne? Continue reading Baskets: S3E10 “New Year’s Eve”
“Basques, an ethnic group which primarily inhabits an area known as the Basque Country.” I give two shows leeway when it comes to pun episode titles – this and Bob’s Burgers, and ever since “Tina Rannasaurus-Wrecks,” Bob’s Burgers is on … Continue reading Baskets: S3E9 “Basque-ets”
This show is still on, and I’m still alive! Anyway I thought last week’s episode was the weakest so far, but got some character development stuff out of the way. As much as this show (and the audience) loves Christine, … Continue reading Baskets: S3E8 “Commercial”
Sorry for no thread last week. Real life got in the way of TV. I have therefore decided to drop all aspects of my real life that may further interfere with my television consumption. This episode features a gaggle of … Continue reading Baskets: S3E6 “Thanksgiving”
Usually when characters in a movie or television series attend an opera, it is to frame a sweeping emotional moment, or to give the characters involved a romantic backdrop to put perspective onto the drama of their own lives. When … Continue reading Baskets: S3E4 “A Night at the Opera”
I really hope that this episode’s title indicates that we’ll see Chip’s clown car, because I’ve been excited for that ever since we saw it in the teaser trailer. Don’t eat that carrot, it’s for the horses. Continue reading Baskets: S3E3 “Crash”
