“Debate 109” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, November 12, 2009. “Meta” became perhaps the most common descriptor of Community as its run went on; a google search for “Community NBC Meta” returns two and a half million results. But … Continue reading A Community Notification for This: S1E09 “Debate 109”
Earlier this year, I wrote a sci-fi short story called “A Gift from the Founder”, and since it’s my birthday and I’m feeling self-indulgent I’m taking the night thread to share it. I’d be flattered if anyone cared to read … Continue reading The Night Thread is a Gift from the Founder
As of today I’ve been alive for precisely 24 years. But it’s only the last couple that I have a vivid, daily record of. I took more pictures in 2019 than in entire rest of my life up to that … Continue reading The (Birth)Day Thread of Cell Phone Photography
It’s Life Day, folks: a day of peace, a day of harmony, a day of joy we all can share together joyously. As far as the Star Wars Holiday Special shows us, Life Day is mostly celebrated by watching kitschy … Continue reading R-3X DJs the Life Day Thread
“Introduction to Statistics” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, October 29, 2009. What makes someone fall in love with a show? What makes a television program not just something one enjoys, but a favorite thing, an object to be treasured? … Continue reading A Community Notification For This: S1E07 “Introduction to Statistics”
Five years ago today, at 4 AM in a block called “Infomercials”, [adult swim] plunged a nation of insomniacs and stoners into the nightmare world of Too Many Cooks. Much like the Avocado’s own Dad’s Casa, TMC is a TGIF sitcom … Continue reading The Day Thread of “Too Many Cooks”
“Football, Feminism, and You” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, October 22, 2009 “Football, Feminism, and You” aired as episode 6 of season one, but its production code is 103 – it got shuffled off later into the schedule, presumably … Continue reading A Community Notification For This: S1E06 “Football, Feminism, and You”
0-0-0 (or Triple Zero) is a protocol droid specializing in etiquette, customs, translation, and torture. Mostly torture. The Triple-Zero Protocol Personality Matrix was created, tested, and promptly quarantined as far too dangerous ever to place in a droid body centuries … Continue reading The 0-0-0 Night Thread
Every sufficiently quirky geographical region must be in want of a hirsute hominid to call its own. So it is that we hear of the Florida Skunk Ape. What distinguishes the Skunk Ape from its Pacific Northwestern and Himalayan brethren, … Continue reading The Night Thread of the Florida Skunk Ape
“Introduction to Film” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, October 1, 2009 “Introduction to Film” is an apt title for Community’s third installment in more ways than one. Like “Spanish 101” before it, it literally refers to a class being … Continue reading A Community Notification For This: S1E03 “Introduction to Film”
A single large block nestled into Port Orange’s suburbia contains a site called the Dunlawton Sugar Mill Gardens. As its current name suggests, it is home to a historical sugar mill ruin (one of many scattered around Florida), as well … Continue reading The Bongoland Night Thread
Sure, it’s another step in Disney’s quest for world domination, but did you see they got Alan Tudyk back as K-2SO? See all the announcements in one place here. Continue reading Disney+ Launch Announcement Discussion Thread
Now that Christmas is over and it’s almost time for Rudolph’s Shiny New Year, it’s time that we all took a trip into the DEEP LORE of the Rankin/Bass Special-verse, which teamed up its franchises in a feature-length epic decades before those … Continue reading The Day Thread of Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
In 2015, their final year of operation, I wrote for the Community Board Advent Calendar an elegy for the Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights. I present it now to you. “What?” my sister laughs. “Did he just say ‘that’s … Continue reading The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights Day Thread
John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together is a 1979 Christmas special that has never been released on home video, though it can be found in full on YouTube with a simple search for the title. While the special … Continue reading John Denver and the Muppets Day Thread
Shirley, please tell us what day it is. (Well, it is for another hour anyway. I was too late to get the Day Thread). Continue reading The “It’s December 10th” Night Thread
Have at it. My takeaways: Kinda disappointed that the old lady actually is a Skrull and she’s not just punching her by accident. I like the carryover of design elements from GOTG (her helmet dematerializes just like Quill’s) and Carol’s … Continue reading Captain Marvel Trailer 2 Reaction Thread
51 years ago today, the first Pulsar was discovered! Pulsars are massive, rotating, neutron stars from the earliest stages of the universe. They shoot out two massive beams of electromagnetic radiation which pass by the Earth like a lighthouse’s ray, … Continue reading The Pulsar Day Thread
On this day in 1928, Steamboat Willie debuted, unleashing mischievous character/globe conquering corporate mascot Mickey Mouse onto the world and freezing the notion of copyright for almost a century. Though he had technically first appeared in Plane Crazy earlier that … Continue reading Mickey Mouse’s Birthday Day Thread
It’s November 17th, and you know what that means! It’s LIFE DAY! Forty years ago today, the Star Wars Holiday Special aired on CBS for its one and only exposure to the public, never to be seen again through official … Continue reading Life Day Thread
One of my favorite rides at Epcot is Living with the Land. It’s Epcot’s ‘behind the scenes’ attraction (in a class with Rafiki’s Planet Watch, which showed actual veterinary work done on the Animal Kingdom animals, and the Backlot Tour, … Continue reading Living with the Land Day Thread
