While we focused on classic monsters yesterday, today we want to talk about the modern world of horror and monsters! We’ll consider modern anything in the last forty or so years so that provides a good range and variety to … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 5: Your Favorite Modern Monster
So much of our understanding of the world of horror and the monsters that live within it are defined by the early black and white movies that dominated for so long. Things that were chosen to be introduced there – … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 4: Your Favorite Classic Monster
There’s a lot of range as to what can be considered horror, admittedly, but that helps with today’s challenge as there aren’t a lot of really strong horror in the classic sense kind of TV shows. But there are a … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 3: Your Favorite Horror TV Series
Way back in the day, growing up in the ‘burbs in the early 80s as a teenager, you only had a few choices for watching movies at home. You had whatever was broadcast on the half dozen channels you had, … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 2: Your Favorite Horror Film
Our 30 Days of Horror challenge gets underway today and we’re going to open this one up for a bit of a discussion-style piece. The month is going to be a mix of a lot of different things – most … Continue reading 30 Days Of Horror Challenge Day 1: What Defines Horror For You
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
With the conclusion of our 30 Days of Books Challenge yesterday, we’re getting ready to move onto the next phase! We’ve had a lot of fun running the last couple of these with the comic book challenge, Disney, films, anime, … Continue reading 30 Days Of Books Challenge Day 31: Epilogue
It’s the last day of the challenge and we want to know what you’re reading right next. We’ve spent the month talking about all kinds of books, from what influenced us as kids, our favorites that we re-read, classics, and … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 30: What You’re Reading Next
As we get down to the end of our 30 day book challenge and get ready for our next run, we’re going to go visual for this penultimate installment. Here, we want to know your favorite book covers out there, … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 29: Your Favorite Book Cover
This one may cut out some of the audience but you can play the flip side as well. There’s a good bit of age range to work with here so you can hit up where you want, but as a … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 28: Your Favorite Book To Read As A Parent
Horror isn’t a genre I’m drawn to but I’ve read a fair share of books in that realm over the year – though apparently one of my favorites (Imajica) is actually fantasy instead of horror. Stupid Clive Barker spreading his … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 27: Your Favorite Horror Novel/Series
Biographies aren’t something that everyone reads as it usually comes down to it just being a particular person that will get you to read as opposed to consuming all the biographies. But there are a lot of fantastic ones out … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 26: Your Favorite Biographical Book
People cannot live by fiction alone! Okay, okay, they can – and I do. I used to read a bit more non-fiction in my younger days and especially during my school days. And I read a fair bit while keeping … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 25: Your Favorite Non-Fiction Book
Adaptations of books into other mediums has been going on forever with varied success. A lot of adaptations were hindered by what could be done with special effects at the time, and we had a long period where it felt … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 24: Best Book To Other Media Adaptation
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
I find books that are written by multiple people to be fascinating. Part of me can’t quite grasp how they do it, how they break out the work, the writing itself, the functionality of it. But that comes from decades … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 23: Your Favorite Multi-Author Book/Series
While there are a lot of things that stick out for me from books I’ve read over the years, actual quotes are few and far between simply because the sheer amount of media I consume. It has to be really … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 22: Your Favorite Book Quote
I love a good anthology series or something that’s creative in how it tells its tales. I had a lot of fun with the early Wild Cards novel series with its range of writers building a world and there have been a … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 21: Favorite Anthology Series
For me, the 90s were a kind of hard period for my enjoyment of media. We had some good shows in syndication going on but it was always a struggle year to year to see if they’d get renewed. I … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 20: Favorite Book By Your Favorite Living Author
While science fiction and some fantasy is largely my wheelhouse, I cut my teeth on a wide range of books. Granted, I took only the SF/Fantasy stuff to school to read between classes but at home I had access to … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 19: Your Favorite Romance Novel
There was a time where I was frustrated by the types of books that were coming out in an area I was interested in that I just took a pass on it all for awhile. I used this time to … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 18: Favorite Book By Your Favorite Dead Author
