YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Star Wars: The Last Jedi Ferdinand Coco Wonder Justice League I’m kind of in a rush today, but the upshot is that The Last Jedi did very, very well – $220M on … Continue reading Box Office: December 15 – 17, 2017
The diesel steamboat chugs on into the gathering dusk. Witchy Woman waits for everyone to go to sleep, then steps outside her cabin. “Hexcellent,” she says, sneaking down the hallway. Arriving at the chosen door, she proceeds to… sit down … Continue reading Werewolf 48: Heart of Darkness PPV – Day 2
If you’re just joining us, this is a follow-up to today’s day thread about the element neodymium. The rare earth metals neodymium and praseodymium are so similar chemically that they were initially believed to be one element, didymium. When they … Continue reading The Praseodymium Night Thread
As we dig deeper into the periodic table, it’s time to consider the concept of scarcity, which will become important as we get into what I lovingly think of as the weird elements. Elements can be rare in two days: … Continue reading The Neodymium Day Thread
The wrestlers of Snake River Championship Wrestling – all 20 of you – meet up in the town of Uranium Springs, which is not even close to being the most radioactive place in Idaho. The town consists of a post … Continue reading Werewolf 48: Heart of Darkness PPV – Day 1
The year is 1986. The game is professional wrestling. The territory system – the patchwork of different wrestling organizations that covers the US and Canada – is starting to fall apart. The advent of television means that people are able … Continue reading Werewolf 48: Heart of Darkness Pay-Per-View Signups
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Coco Justice League Wonder The Disaster Artist Thor: Ragnarok Things were quiet in this, the last Porg™-free weekend of our lives. The Disaster Artist extended to an additional 821 theaters for a … Continue reading Box Office: December 8 – 10, 2017
Wikipedia is so caught up on the history of the flags of the United States that it’s gone into the future. Let’s investigate! The flag of the United States of America is not a static thing. In the beginning, there … Continue reading The Flag Revision Day Thread
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Coco Justice League Wonder Thor: Ragnarok Daddy’s Home 2 The top 6 (the above, plus Murder on the Orient Express) held static this week, with no new releases in the top 10. … Continue reading Box Office: December 1 – 3, 2017
Bet you didn’t think I’d do it! That’s right, I’m continuing my series of chemical element open threads. Number two in this possibly-118-part series is boron. Boron is the fifth element, and the first semiconductor. The semiconductors are weird: they … Continue reading The Boron Day Thread
Test patterns are a delightfully arcane thing, originally created to solve an extinct problem – analog video signal fidelity. In the primordial days of television, a set was adjusted through an elaborate set of small knobs – brightness, contrast, vertical … Continue reading Test Pattern Night Thread
I forgot to do this yesterday (and I forgot I have a Skype call scheduled with a friend tonight) so, real quick: YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Coco Justice League Wonder Thor: Ragnarok Daddy’s Home 2 Coco … Continue reading Box Office: November 24 – 26, 2017
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Justice League Wonder Thor: Ragnarok Daddy’s Home 2 Murder on the Orient Express Justice League rode a wave of begrudging, heavily qualified praise to first place this past weekend. Opening with $96M, … Continue reading Box Office: November 17 – 19, 2017
Look, I’m going to level with you: I gave blood on Wednesday, and I think they took too much. It turns out I needed that blood. I’ve spent the last two days feeling like I’m about to fall over. But … Continue reading The 2nd Rock from the Sun Day Thread
Following through on a threat from yesterday evening, here is part one in a hypothetically 118-part series on the chemical elements. We’re going to start you off with vanadium, subject of a film so good it’s not even on IMDb. … Continue reading The Vanadium Night Thread
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Thor: Ragnarok Daddy’s Home 2 Murder on the Orient Express A Bad Moms Christmas Jigsaw It’s a good week to be Will Ferrel (and also Mark Wahlberg, I guess, if you’re into … Continue reading Box Office: November 10 – 12, 2017
The police station library is a nice, dimly lit place where they let you smoke inside. It’s completely empty, because at this point like half the police force is dead. You gather around one of the desks – all the … Continue reading Werewolf 44 – The Snowman II: Harry Hole’s Month Off – Day 7
When “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” stops playing, Rafto looks around. “The fuck is with you freaks and killing yourselves? Can’t a man drink and dance around in peace?” Behind you, you hear a struggle. When you turn around, Flocculent … Continue reading Werewolf 44 – The Snowman II: Harry Hole’s Month Off – Day 6
After everyone else had gone home, Anita Glasscox sat alone in the conference room. Her EviSync was finally recharged. First she pulled up the list of prior inspections, then nodded at the results. Fingers shaking, she used the shitty touchscreen … Continue reading Werewolf 44 – The Snowman II: Harry Hole’s Month Off – Day 5
The lead IT guy is named Berk Smøps. He is of unclear age, and his skin has the color and texture of candle wax. “Welcome to the, hn, IT department.” He waves an arm around the concrete vaults, causing the … Continue reading Werewolf 44 – The Snowman II: Harry Hole’s Month Off – Day 4
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Thor: Ragnarok A Bad Moms Christmas Jigsaw Boo! 2 Geostorm Opening on 4,080 screens, Thor: Ragnarok was the far-and-away winner for the weekend with a $122M gross. Action-comedy A Bad Moms Christmas walked … Continue reading Box Office: November 3 – 5, 2017
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