In high school a group of us would play Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition. This was before the Internet existed, so if you didn’t know how specialist wizards worked or how to calculate THAC0, then fuck you, figure it … Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?

This was the first weekend of 2019, which is a Year of the Pig according to the Chinese zodiac. What did you do this weekend? And how did it involve pigs? Be specific. Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?

For the final installment of What Did You Do This Weekend in 2018, tell us … What did you do this year? Continue reading What Did You Do This … Year?

I finished reading Watership Down, just in time for the new animated limited series that premieres on Netflix Christmas Day. In the introduction to his best-selling 1972 novel, the late Richard Adams insisted that this story “was never intended to … Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?

I saw Into The Spider-Verse this weekend. I liked the part with Spider-man. What else did you do this weekend? Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?

Today is the final day of Hanukkah, which ends at sundown tonight. I’m not Jewish, but I did celebrate by eating a lot of food deep-fried in oil. What else did you do this weekend? Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?

This weekend, the Avocado featured our very own Giftmas, where our talented and generous community shared in the time-honored traditions of gift giving and upvoting (mostly upvoting). If you haven’t yet checked out all the creative Giftmas offerings, you should! It’s … Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?

If you’re American, how was your Thanksgiving? Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?

If you have Netflix, you may have watched The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Notable filmmakers have been steadily dropping their films onto streaming services, but I’d argue none of them are as esteemed as the Coen Brothers (maybe you could … Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?

If you have Amazon Prime, you may have watched season 2 of Patriot. All eight episodes of the new season premiered on Friday. I attempted to explain this show to someone who had never heard of it, and mostly ended … Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?

If you live in the United States (except Arizona and Hawaii), you participated in the bizarre ritual known as the end of Daylight Savings Time, when we all dutifully set our clocks back an hour without really having any idea … Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?

Who am I kidding, you were all playing that cowboy game. I hope y’all had fun a-whoopin’ and a-hollerin’ and a-pickin’ burrs outta yer horse’s tail (I assume these are things you can do in the game). So, that’s what … Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?

Here’s what you didn’t do this weekend… … you didn’t see An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn. Jim Hosking, writer/director of the intentionally repugnant and tedious The Greasy Strangler, somehow managed to convince real actors to appear in his follow-up feature. Good … Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?

Here’s what you didn’t do this weekend… … you didn’t attend the Giant Pumpkin Weigh Off and Regatta, which was held in Goffstown, New Hampshire. The giant pumpkins arrived on Saturday morning, when the Pumpkin Prince and Princess were crowned. They … Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?

Here’s what you didn’t do this weekend… … you didn’t attend the Golden Eagle Festival in the Bayan-Ulgii province of western Mongolia, which always occurs during the first weekend of October. Dressed in full eagle hunting regalia and mounted on … Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?