Netflix has finally recaptured the old video store feel of presenting you with finished movies whose existence was completely unknown seconds earlier. To hell with promotion, or even hype. You want to see a movie nobody you know has even heard … Continue reading IO Invites You To Live the Good Life on the Off-World Colonies
I’m rewatching The Twilight Zone on Netflix, and it’s fascinating to see the episodes in chronological order. Something I picked up on was the recurring presence of a newspaper called The Daily Chronicle, which I think first appears in episode 8, “Time … Continue reading The Daily Chronicle Day Thread (Published Daily)
I don’t know why, but it’s funny as hell to me when some extremely normal product tries to luxe itself up. Presenting: Food brands with “king” in their name. Continue reading The Day Thread of Food Kings
Look, people are heavier than air, it was always going to be an uphill battle. Please take a moment to appreciate the brave insanity of our forebears, creators of such mighty aircraft as– The Fokker V.8! Capable of seating 1⅔ … Continue reading Day Thread of the Bad Airplanes
Full disclosure, up front: I believe I am coming down with the flu. This worries me because I just had the flu. I also had the flu shot, back in September. And yet, sometime around noon today, I was overtaken … Continue reading Replicas Is a Stoner Movie from the Twilight Zone
You guys wanted a sex thread, I’ve had this thing in my WordPress drafts for seven months, let’s make a deal. Continue reading The Frasier Sex Thread – January 9, 2019
Gather ’round the screen, dear friends, and behold the majesty of Soviet New Year’s animation: It’s the heartwarming story of a bunch of forest animals who compete in a New Year’s variety show, hosted by a rabbit in Soviet discotheque … Continue reading The Soviet New Year’s Day Thread
In a little over one more day, Americans will be full entitled to copy, modify or adapt any and all works from the year 1923. It’s been a long time coming. American copyright law is complex, and the duration of … Continue reading The 2019 Public Domain Night Thread
To some extent, Thriftstorm misrepresents thrift stores. In my first eight months of writing essays here, the oldest thing I reviewed was from the 1910s, and the newest was from the 1990s. But I used to work at a thrift store, sorting incoming donations, and about half that stuff was from the last five years. Continue reading Thriftstorm #16 – We’re Looking Into the Future, Chuck
I estimate I saw between 40 and 50 movies for the first time in 2018, and the strangest of them was 1970’s Gas-s-s-s. It’s currently available to watch on Amazon if you have Prime. Directed by Roger Corman from George … Continue reading The Gas-s-s-s Night Thread
The Möbius strip is a great little impossibility, something that refuses to vanish no matter how long you stare at it. Perhaps you thought there couldn’t be an object with one surface and one edge? Guess again. If you’re traveling … Continue reading The Möbius Strip Day Thread
This started in today’s open thread; Dikachu suggested I break it out into its own discussion. List your favorite song from each decade, for as far back as you want to go. Here’s my list; I’ll admit upfront to favoring … Continue reading What’s Your Favorite Song from Each Decade?
The big selling point of Mortal Engines is steampunk. The word of mouth isn’t about character arcs or philosophical concepts; it’s about the visuals of enormous cities that roam a shattered world. If you think that hook is enough to sustain … Continue reading Mortal Engines Is a Layered Throwback
One of the more pleasant games that came out this year is Jalopy. You play as a citizen of East Germany in June 1990; your goal is to ferry your uncle across Eastern Europe in the final days of communism. (The … Continue reading The Jalopy Night Thread
Welcome back to the Element Open Threads, my ongoing struggle to write about elements faster than scientists can synthesize new ones. Today, by popular demand, we’ll discuss beryllium, element #4. Broadly speaking, the lower an element’s number is, the more … Continue reading The Beryllium Day Thread
Last week, General Motors discontinued a number of passenger car models. It joins Ford and Fiat Chrysler on the pickup truck/SUV gravy train. SUVs and trucks are hot right now, have bigger profit margins for manufacturers than cars, and prove … Continue reading The PT Cruiser Day Thread
Thriftstorm is Captain Video’s secondhand anthropology project. Follow @Thriftstorm on Twitter for the latest news on things people were just going to throw away. Artifact: Mulligan Stew comic book, no issue number. Description: Color, printed on impressively cheap paper. Water damaged. … Continue reading Thriftstorm #15 – You Will Have Good Nutrition if It Kills You
INFRA is a puzzle game about infrastructure – the systems and utilities that underpin a population center. More specifically, it’s about how we fail those systems, and how they fail us in return. Built inside the Source Engine – home … Continue reading Art of INFRA Night Thread
The Earth is a sphere and every point on its surface has a point on the surface on the exact opposite side. The name for two such points are antipodes. (Singular: antipode.) In American popular culture, China is the country you’d … Continue reading Antipodes Day Thread
Well guys, this is it: Kennedy and Nixon. As it was meant to be. Continue reading Who Started the Fire? Tournament – FINALS
Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving weekend. At last, it’s the Nixon vs. JFK bracket you’ve been waiting for. Continue reading Who Started the Fire? Tournament – Semifinals
