So this is a twofer because my wife got diagnosed with COVID and my life got flipped, turned upside down, and this last week was also back to school, and it was remote and life is insane. So I’m sorry … Continue reading The Expanse S6E04: Redoubt and 05: Why We Fight
So… this feels like getting towards the end, right? What I mean is, the appearances in this episode had some real “back for the finale” energy about them. I’ve opined, in these virtual pages, that it would be cool as … Continue reading The Expanse S6E03: Force Projection
This week on THE EXPANSE, Holden gets caught in a deadly game of Cat and Mouse… Continue reading The Expanse S6E02: Azure Dragon
Hello Expansacados and visitors! Blue Adept wisely suggested a spoiler space for folks to talk about the ninth book in the series, which I’m supposed to get… today! So when you’ve read the book (if you’re reading the book) hop … Continue reading The Expanse: Leviathan Falls Spoiler Space
This week on THE EXPANSE, Holden gets caught in a deadly game of Cat and Mouse Continue reading The Expanse S6E01: Strange Dogs
How are things going for y’all in education land? This thread invites all stakeholders or other parties interested in the educational systems of our various homes to discuss things as they stand. Students, teachers, parents, community members. Everyone except guidance … Continue reading Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom: The Occasional Education Thread Calls it Quits
Joy to the world, we’re back in school! Welcome to “Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom,” where people from a wide variety of perspectives about the educational systems come to talk about things. Feel free to comment if you are an … Continue reading Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom: Welcome to 2021!
Hi everyone. Welcome to the occasional education thread! This is a space for anyone interested in discussing the topic of education (particularly K-12, but whatevs) in whatever parts of the world we hail from. Particularly, we’d like to give various … Continue reading Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom, the Occasional Education Thread: This is the End
This week on THE EXPANSE, Holden gets caught in a deadly game of Cat and Mouse… Continue reading The Expanse S5E10: Nemesis Games
It’s the occasional education thread, where teachers, students, parents, and anyone else with a stake in education can share their thoughts. It seemed a good time to post this, as it’s been a while, and we’ve all had about half … Continue reading Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom: What’s Going On?
Let’s start with the most important business: Delgado’s joke sucked. And not in a “dad joke” groaner kind of way. It’s just a bad joke and he should feel bad for wanting to tell it. There’s a way a joke … Continue reading The Expanse S5E09: Winnipesaukee
Like last time out, The Expanse this week centered on the story of Naomi Nagata. But instead of family-drama Naomi, we instead are treated to grease-monkey Naomi. And I like grease-monkey Naomi Nagata. In fact, the only Inaros action this … Continue reading The Expanse S5E08: Hard Vacuum
(The title is Lang Belta for “Goodbye,” by the way) Let us take a moment to thank the increased budget of the last two seasons for giving us the improved visual effects on display tonight. We’ve seen ship-to-ship combat on … Continue reading The Expanse S5E07: Oyedang
This episode was amazing. Just really, really good. That’s my review. The storylines were gripping, the action exciting and the character work compelling. I even didn’t mind so much the Naomi storyline, though the Expanse is coming kind of close … Continue reading The Expanse S5E06: Tribes
So to get things out of the way, the reason that eps 3 and 4 aren’t up yet is that I’ve had COVID stuff come up: I’ve watched the shows and have half written up Ep 3, but as those … Continue reading The Expanse S5E05: Down and Out
(If you missed my Episode 1 or have watched all three episodes already aired, I have linked at the end to the threads) So, as I was watching Amos’ return to Baltimore, I gotta say that a lot of what … Continue reading The Expanse S5E02: Churn
Hi everyone, and welcome to another season of my Expanse reviews! Last year, Amazon did me dirty by dropping all the episodes at once and guys… I’ve got a toddler. I can’t binge. This year though, I can do the … Continue reading The Expanse S5E01: Exodus
Greetings, Avacadoans once again! I’m happy to announce that this is the —LaaAAaaSSZZZZzzzzztt– Yes Doctor. Our experiment goes well. Subjects are willingly subjecting themselves to—-SSCCREEECH Oh, boy. Sorry about that. We must have gotten some interference from some sort … Continue reading RNC Night 4: So, it has come to pass
Do you need to watch this? No. But you can. Just… be careful. The levels of concentrated anger and thinly-veiled hate speech can numb one to such things. But go on and vent your spleens folks. Continue reading RNC Night 3: What rough beast, its hour come at last?
Dear Avocadoans: How do you feel about yourself? That bad, huh? Then have I got a thread for you! Here is tonight’s dedicated thread for the Republican National Convention! Hooray! … Question mark? Continue reading RNC Night 2: Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate.
Here we are, approaching the beginning of the end. (That milestone I’ll put at the end of the Republican convention a week from today, but we’re getting close) Tonight we’re going to hear from some of Biden’s former rivals for … Continue reading DNC Night 4: [Insert “Joe” pun here]
