GREETING Brothers and sisters and all other beloveds, we come together the Palm Sunday for our final meditation on Moral Orel, a stop motion animated show originally broadcast on Adult Swim from 2005 through 2008. Now there is some controversy … Continue reading Sunday Morning Orel: Season 3b (the final episodes)
CW: talk of sexual abuse GREETING Welcome and welcome back, dearly beloved. If anyone is here for the first time, please raise your hand so the rest of you can turn around and stare you. Thank you. Today we will … Continue reading Sunday Morning Orel: season 3a (episodes 31-34) THIS IS THE ONE WITH THAT REALLY DEPRESSING EPISODE
GREETING Welcome and welcome back, dearly beloved. If anyone is here for the first time, please raise your hand so the rest of you can turn around and stare you. Thank you. Today we will be continuing our Lent season … Continue reading Sunday Morning Orel: Season 2c (episodes 26-30) THIS IS THE ONE WITH THE HUNTING TRIP EPISODE
It’s the beginning of Spring 2020, and for most of us it is likely to be the weirdest spring of our entire lives. Things are not normal and it’s hard to say when they will be again. I don’t know … Continue reading The First Weekend of Spring Phone-tography Challenge
CW: TALK OF CHILD ABUSE GREETING Welcome and welcome back, dearly beloved. If anyone is here for the first time, please raise your hand so the rest of you can turn around and stare you. Thank you. Today we will … Continue reading Sunday Morning Orel: Season 2b (episodes 21-25) THIS IS THE ONE WITH THE CREEPY ICE CREAM GUY
GREETING Welcome and welcome back, dearly beloved. If anyone is here for the first time, please raise your hand so the rest of you can turn around and stare you. Thank you. Today we will be continuing our Lent season … Continue reading Sunday Morning Orel: Season 2A (episodes 11-20)
Brothers and sisters and all other beloveds, we come together during this most holy season of Lent to celebrate and meditate on one of the most insightful and dark critiques of twentieth century America ever bestowed upon us: the magnificent … Continue reading Sunday Morning Orel: Season 1 (episodes 1-10)
(a sales pitch to people who have never been able to get into the show) Happy Sunday Morning! Back when I was a church going tyke, my church would always do a special series of sermons for the Lent season. … Continue reading Where to Start with Moral Orel – in Only One Hour!
Hey folks. So this is — depending on spoon availability — my attempt at reviving the Spoonie thread. I’ve batted around at whether I want this to be open ended or one and done, and what I’ve come down to … Continue reading The Spoonie Thread: Sanist Microaggressions in the Membrane
Hi! In celebration of the anniversary of these episodes, this is a one time addition to the Batman Beyond reviews AWP started in the long ago. All episodes are available on DC UNIVERSE. Since I know this is really out … Continue reading Batman Beyond: S01E11/E12: “Disappearing Inque” and “A Touch of Curare”
“I have heard it said, that, when any strange, supernatural, and necromantic adventure has occurred to a human being, that being, however desirous he may be to conceal the same, feels at certain periods torn up as it were by … Continue reading The Night Thread of Christmas Ghost Stories from The Keepsake (12/18/2019)
Today, December 6th, is a day that went down in history. That’s right. Today is the day that something momentous happened in 1991. The last Original Series Star Trek Movie was released. People had been afraid Star Trek V … Continue reading The Undiscovered Day Thread (12/6/2019)
Hey Avocados, We are so sorry to report that it appears our fellow Avocado Ack_Ack has passed away. We have a link to a Facebook profile which is set to memorial mode and which seems to be his based on … Continue reading R.I.P. Ack_Ack
It may be funny to think of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark as the best Halloween anthology movie since 2007’s Trick r Treat, but it’s a claim that can be defended. The reason the claim is funny is … Continue reading Review: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
It’s hard to believe, but it’s been over nine years since Futurama returned to us for two post-movies seasons on Comedy Central. The first new episode was broadcast June 24, 2010. My birthday. I was so excited. It was . … Continue reading Day Thread 8/1: The Best of NuFu
Today is Independent Bookstore Day! I love independent bookstores. The love of books flows through them and the atmosphere is inviting and non-corporate! The people there are friendly and care. Lots of bookstores are having parties or events today, so … Continue reading Day Thread 4/:27 Happy Independent Bookstore Day!
Oh my dead Klingon gods. Sexy sexy Enterprise. I’ll save the rest of the gushing for the comments. Let’s just say I think they stuck the landing. Continue reading Star Trek Discovery Season Two Finale
A man appeared in the empty weekend politics thread, appeared so suddenly and silently you’d have thought he’d just popped out of the ground. Nearby, a cat’s tail twitched and its eyes narrowed. Nothing like this man had ever been … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread and The Dark Triad
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
Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Shuffle Thread, The Avocado’s favorite place to shuffle your music and show off your good taste! A NEW year is about to begin, so today’s hastily chosen theme is songs … Continue reading The NEW Adventures of the Weekly Shuffle Thread
I’m going to put this column on hiatus for now. As a belabored pun to tie together this column about endings and “To Boldly Sew,” here’s my question for this week: What dangling plot thread (get it, thread?) do you wish Star Trek had followed up on? Continue reading This Week in Trek: Loose Threads
