Artifact: Hawksbill Station, by Robert Silverberg, 1968. Description: Hardcover book with stamps saying it belonged to a college library, and another stamp that says it is no longer the property of said library. It still has the plastic cover protector … Continue reading Thriftstorm #9: Trapped in Time, Low on Morale
I know we’re all feeling down, for various reasons. I have to help my mom move out of my childhood home this weekend, and it’s going to be hard. But I have FUN FACTS that will sooth all of our … Continue reading Good News To Make You Feel Better
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: Assorted old photographs. Description: Black and white photographic prints of unclear age. Source: Junk store. I … Continue reading Thriftstorm #8: An Adopted Family
Early color photography fascinates me. There was a long period of time between when the color theory was worked out and when it translated into a financially viable medium. It took so long, in fact, that between the eras of … Continue reading The Cinecolor Day Thread
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Solo Deadpool 2 Adrift Avengers: Infinity War Book Club Solo lost 65% in its second weekend, a steep drop off a not-great opening. Deadpool 2 fared a bit better in its third, … Continue reading Box Office: June 1 – 3, 2018
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: Organized Obsessions: 1,001 Offbeat Associations, Fan Clubs and Microsocieties You Can Join, by Deborah M. … Continue reading Thriftstorm #7: People You Could Get To Know
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Solo Deadpool 2 Avengers: Infinity War Book Club Life of the Party Solo opened at #1, but has vastly underperformed expectations, falling $15M short of the estimated $101M target. It now seems … Continue reading Box Office: May 25 – 27, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Avengers: Infinity War Life of the Party Breaking In Overboard A Quiet Place Infinity War has now made $547M domestically and topped a billion internationally, with the second-biggest all-time opening in China … Continue reading Box Office: May 11 – 13, 2018
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: The Armour Oval, Vol. XV, No. 5, dated October 1933. Description: Sub-tabloid-size 12-page newspaper, printed … Continue reading Thriftstorm #6: News and Views of Armour Crews
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Avengers: Infinity War Overboard A Quiet Place I Feel Pretty Rampage I’m currently sitting next to an egg timer that will tell me when to take my pizza out of the oven … Continue reading Box Office: May 4 – 6, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Avengers: Infinity War A Quiet Place I Feel Pretty Rampage Black Panther I’m too tired and too busy to do a proper writeup, but Infinity War made staggering amounts of money, and … Continue reading Box Office: April 27 – 29, 2018
With the defeat of legendary turkey Plan 9 from Outer Space and dark horse Deep Blue Sea, we arrive at the finals: Road House vs. Con Air. These aren’t the finalists I would have chosen, but, in a way, they’re … Continue reading Best Worst Movies Tournament: Finals
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: Desktop globe. Description: Per the text panel in the North Pacific, this is Cram’s Earth … Continue reading Thriftstorm #5: And Crawling on the Planet’s Face, Some Insects Called the Human Race
Closest bracket: Road House vs. The Room, 40 – 33 Biggest blowout: Plan 9 from Outer Space vs. Earth Girls Are Easy, 48 – 16. Full bracket: https://challonge.com/ca9r891v Continue reading Best Worst Movies Tournament: Semifinals
The time of judgment draws nigh! With one exception, all the remaining movies are now from a 14-year window between 1989 and 2003. Closest bracket: Con Air vs. Demolition Man, 35 – 33. Biggest blowout: Plan 9 from Outer Space … Continue reading Best Worst Movies Tournament: Round Four
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) A Quiet Place Rampage I Feel Pretty Super Troopers 2 Truth or Dare Anecdote from attending Super Troopers 2, a movie about fuck-up Vermont Highway Patrol officers on drugs, in a Vermont … Continue reading Box Office: April 20 – 22, 2018
As the brackets increasingly narrow to a field between the late ’80s and early ’00s, I’m reconsidering the guidelines. Of course I won’t change anything now, but if I were to do this again, I think I’d put in a … Continue reading Best Worst Movies Tournament: Round Three
Thirty-two films didn’t make it out of round one, but the remaining entries represent a leaner, meaner kind of bad. Closest bracket: Bubble Boy (2001) vs. Hudson Hawk (1991), 19-18. Biggest blowout: Con Air (1997) vs. Battlefield Earth (2000), 57-17. … Continue reading Best Worst Movies Tournament: Round Two
After leaving the nominations open for a couple of days, the results are in! Seventy-four movies had seven votes or more; since the first round has 64 slots, I was the tiebreaker. Please observe a moment of silence for the … Continue reading Best Worst Movies Tournament: Round One
In the style of other Avocado tournaments, I wanted to see what our favorite bad movie is. Badness – like quality – is a subjective interpretation, so I’m not going to put any stylistic restrictions on what makes an entry … Continue reading Best Worst Movies Tournament: Nominations
On January 1, 2019, all works copyrighted in the United States in 1923 will lapse into the public domain. This is a huge deal: Works in the public domain are free for anyone to use in any way, forever (at … Continue reading When the Copyrights for 1923 Expire
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