YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Rampage A Quiet Place Truth or Dare Ready Player One Blockers People like Dwayne Johnson, people like special effects; people went to see Rampage. Despite its arcade cabinet origins, this is the … Continue reading Box Office: April 13 – 15, 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: Lucky! by the Whammadiddle Dingbats, 1989. Description: Audio cassette, with various markings on its case … Continue reading Thriftstorm #4: Now That Middle Age Has Got You by the Hand
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) A Quiet Place Ready Player One Blockers Black Panther Tyler Perry’s Acrimony I’m doing this late, so I’ll throw it together quickly: A Quiet Place opened strong – $50M against a reported … Continue reading Box Office: April 6 – 8, 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: Brochure for the 1994 Dodge Caravan. Description: Glossy, magazine-style printing on pages too big to … Continue reading Thriftstorm #3: Top Speed 100 mph
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Ready Player One Tyler Perry’s Acrimony Black Panther I Can Only Imagine Pacific Rim Uprising I couldn’t find a wide-format poster for Ready Player One (opening in first) that wasn’t a ripoff … Continue reading Box Office: March 30 – April 1, 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: Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971), 1990 home video release. Description: High fidelity VHS tape (with … Continue reading Thriftstorm #2: Cheat To Win at Easter
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Pacific Rim Uprising Black Panther I Can Only Imagine Sherlock Gnomes Tomb Raider Black Panther was finally unseated from #1, but has overtaken The Avengers as the all-time domestic #5. Newcomer Pacific … Continue reading Box Office: March 23 – 25, 2018
You eat cold pizza and leftover brownies for breakfast. It’s so good that you take awhile to realize a bunch of people are dead. But hey, more food for the rest of you. PTA Sharon (Spookyfriend) has died. She was … Continue reading Werewolves 56: Zone Z, Finale
Red was a simple man. He just wanted to have his family back, so he could kill and eat them again. Was that so much to ask from a place where the impossible was commonplace? His last thought, before being … Continue reading Werewolves 56: Zone Z, Day 4
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 Square Dancing Encyclopedia, by Bill Burleson. Revised June 1977. Description: Softcover book made of … Continue reading Thriftstorm #1: The Land of 2,542 Dances
Friends, gather ’round your screens, for I have a special announcement. A year ago today, I began Thriftstorm, a Twitter feed celebrating the more esoteric stuff I found in thrift stores. It went slowly at first, before I suddenly hit … Continue reading The Thriftstorm Day Thread
It’s a weird night. You hear a lot of scuttling around as you try to sleep, and towards midnight you hear an unearthly wailing that just will not quit. Some of you wonder if Alaska always had this much Spanish … Continue reading Werewolves 56: Zone Z, Day 3
It’s beautiful here. The sun doesn’t really go down at night; the sunlight merely becomes horizontal. You doze under huge, fluffy clouds the color of vanilla ice cream. Some of you update your Tumblrs. Cell service is good here. Perhaps … Continue reading Werewolves 56: Zone Z, Day 2
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Black Panther Tomb Raider I Can Only Imagine A Wrinkle in Time Love, Simon Black Panther has now crossed the $600M domestic mark and, perhaps more importantly, become the first film to … Continue reading Box Office: March 16 – 18, 2018
Your accommodations for the night turn out to be at the Howard Johnson’s Motor Lodge across the road from the Northern Limit headquarters. It rains in the night, and many of you lie awake in the darkness, admiring the deposited … Continue reading Werewolf 56: Zone Z – Day 1
You are in a large room. The far wall is made of floor-to-ceiling glass panels, and outside the sky is blood red. Silhouetted against the dusk is a man behind a desk. You can’t see him clearly. “Thank you all … Continue reading Werewolf 56: Zone Z Signups
My last few element open threads were complex, so here’s a nice easy one. Neon is a noble gas. That means that neon will do its absolute utmost not to react with any other element to form compounds. Just like … Continue reading The Neon Day Thread
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Black Panther A Wrinkle in Time Strangers: Prey at Night Red Sparrow Game Night Twitter users were quick to point out that this past weekend’s box office didn’t necessarily have to be … Continue reading Box Office: March 9 – 11, 2018
Here is my favorite part of watching The Hurricane Heist: I walked into the theater on Saturday afternoon, and it was packed. I had to go down to the third row and ask the guy on the end to let … Continue reading Hurricane Heist Will Be the Highlight of the 4-In-1 DVD It Ends Up On
This article was originally written on the old Avocado Disqus site last year, and is being reposted here in preparation for the release of the film. Back in 2014, before work on an adaption got seriously underway, a friend recommended … Continue reading Ready Player One May or May Not Deserve Your Hate
A short story, made with kidnappedbyninjas.net. Continue reading The Bad Dudes Day Thread
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