Happy Saturday and welcome to the Frinkiac Challenge! This used to be a regular feature that I post way less often now because I’m directionless garbage, but it’s pretty simple to explain. Just use frinkiac.com, morbotron.com, masterofallscience.com, or any similar … Continue reading The Great Frinkiac Challenge Spills its Beans
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was once a little girl named Rey. Her parents left her on her own… And for a long time, she was very lonely. But one day, she made a … Continue reading The Day Thread is a Rey Thread
Hello, everyone and welcome to Let’s Read An Old Menu! This is another in a I-really-can’t-honestly-call-it-weekly-anymore series looking at restaurant, hotel kitchen, and lunch counter menus from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sometimes things will be familiar, sometimes they’ll be … Continue reading Let’s Read an Old Menu, featuring Childs’, New York, New York
Hot Dog Princess had made no secret of her croak dream. Everyone knew that she believed she would die smothered in ketchup. They were still a little surprised when a huge blob of it dripped from the ceiling onto her, … Continue reading The Creeps: Day 3
Esteemed guests, I am your host. I am a ghost. By the time you finish reading this, I will posses four of you and use your bodies to murder everyone in the house. “Nope! Starchy doesn’t like this one bit! … Continue reading The Creeps: Day 1
It’e the Great Pumpkin Day Charlie Brown! The Great Pumpkin is a holiday figure in whom only Linus van Pelt believes. According to Linus, the Great Pumpkin flies around bringing toys to sincere and believing children on Halloween evening. Every … Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Mon 10/28/2019)
What time is it? Adventure Werewolf Time! You are humble citizens of Ooo that have received a spooky invite to a mysterious party at a castle on a mountain. As everyone arrives and states the mystery name on their invite, … Continue reading Werewolf 106: The Creeps
It’s the first weekend of October, and in my hometown of Albuquerque New Mexico, that means one thing and one thing only. One of the two largest gatherings of hot-air balloons in the world, the Balloon Fiesta has been held … Continue reading The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Day Thread
It’s been two years for Steven, but for us it’s been 84 years about eight months. This movie on some level functions as a restatement of the show’s central arcs, something it actively comments on near the end when Steven … Continue reading Steven Universe: The Movie
Hello, everyone and welcome to Let’s Read An Old Menu! This is another in a weekly series looking at restaurant, hotel kitchen, and lunch counter menus from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sometimes things will be familiar, sometimes they’ll be … Continue reading Let’s Read an Old Menu, featuring Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Canada
Hello, everyone and welcome to Let’s Read An Old Menu! This is another in a weekly series looking at restaurant, hotel kitchen, and lunch counter menus from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sometimes things will be familiar, sometimes they’ll be … Continue reading Let’s Read an Old Menu! Featuring: McDonald’s Through The Ages
Hello, everyone and welcome to Let’s Read An Old Menu! This is another in a weekly series looking at restaurant, hotel kitchen, and lunch counter menus from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sometimes things will be familiar, sometimes they’ll be … Continue reading Let’s Read an Old Menu! Featuring: The Pirates’ House, Savannah GA, 1966!
Hello, everyone and welcome to Let’s Read An Old Menu! This is another in a weekly series looking at restaurant, hotel kitchen, and lunch counter menus from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sometimes things will be familiar, sometimes they’ll be … Continue reading Let’s Read an Old Menu, Featuring: Smalls’ Paradise, Harlem, New York, date unknown c. 1930s
Hello, everyone and welcome to Let’s Read An Old Menu! This is another in a weekly series looking at restaurant, hotel kitchen, and lunch counter menus from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sometimes things will be familiar, sometimes they’ll be … Continue reading Let’s Read An Old Menu! Featuring: Baur’s, Denver, CO 1949
Hello, everyone and welcome to Let’s Read An Old Menu! This is another in a weekly series looking at restaurant, hotel kitchen, and lunch counter menus from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sometimes things will be familiar, sometimes they’ll be … Continue reading Let’s Read An Old Menu! Featuring: The Holding Company Mexican Food and Disco, Missoula, Montana 1977!
Hello, everyone and welcome to Let’s Read An Old Menu! This is the first in what I hope will be a new weekly series looking at restaurant, hotel kitchen, and lunch counter menus from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sometimes … Continue reading Let’s Read An Old Menu! Featuring: Aunt Emma’s Pancakes, San Diego, 1961
Today’s open thread is devoted to DK, formerly known as Dorling Kindersley. DK is a publisher of travel guides, how-to manuals, and general reference books on almost every subject imaginable. Dorling Kindersley began in the UK as a book-packaging company … Continue reading The Dorling Kindersley Visual Guide to the Day Thread
Hey everyone, so I know we have struggled with regular Frinkiac Challenges, but now that the new season is over I figured I’d do one I’ve been wanting to for a few months. You know the rules. Continue reading The Great Frinkiac Challenge is in the Good Place.
I don’t know how many of you are aware of this, but I fuckin’ love K.A. Applegate and Michael Grant’s Animorphs book series. I have since I was like six. They were my first YA lit and became a fixture of … Continue reading Animorphs: The Series (Season 1)
So guess what? I made it all the way to the airing of this episode, all the long long months, without hearing it before tonight. Stray observations Adam Muto was one of the boarders on this episode, along with Joe … Continue reading Steven Universe s5e28: “Escapism”
Oh dip, the hiatus is finally over for real! A lot has changed for so many of us since Legs originally aired on the CN app months ago, hasn’t it? We’ll all have some catching up to do, I’m sure, … Continue reading Steven Universe s5e25: “Familiar”
