Results to my survey about what the night thread should be were inconclusive, so I’m just going to toss it all out here as a self-indulgent sampler platter of stuff I did over the course of my 28th year of … Continue reading The Night Thread Can’t Decide
29 is, like all natural numbers, interesting. Letβs look at a few facts about it. Continue reading The Day Thread Examines 29
It’s Life Day! Time to put your Bantha roast in the oven, watch a cartoon about people you know in real life, ignore your grandpa watching porn in the living room, and hope that your treehouse isn’t raided by armed … Continue reading Life Day Thread 11/17
Brat Summer extends into Brat Fall as Charli XCX returns to Studio 8H for her third Musical Guest spot and first hosting gig. Last time she was on the show she was a little Meatball man who played a keytar: Continue reading SNL50 Episode 7: Charli XCX
Bill Burr returns to host the post-election episode, a slot which for the last eight years has gone to *checks notes* Dave Chapelle. Well, I guess things could be worse. Also, somebody named Mk.gee is there. Continue reading SNL50 Episode 6: Bill Burr/Mk.gee
Mulaney returns for his annual hosting gig, which will also be the pre-election spectacular (Kamala is rumored to appear in person). Continue reading SNL50 Episode 5: John Mulaney/Chappell Roan
Six more days ’til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween Six more days ’til Halloween Silver Shamrock Continue reading Emergency 10/25 Night Thread
Michael Keaton returns for his fourth outing as host – he previously appeared in 1982, 1992, and 2015, quite a spread! – for what is likely to be the de facto Halloween episode this year. Although I guess he’s nominally … Continue reading SNL50 Episode 4: Michael Keaton/Billie Eilish
The final installment of the Spooky Lego header series had to be a night thread – it’s about nightmares. Lego’s latest big original concept is a theme called Dreamzzz, about children who become dream warriors in their sleep or something. … Continue reading Spooky Lego: Dreamzzz Night Thread (10/17)
In the last few years, as part of their ever more extensive partnership with Disney, Lego has released a few spooky Disney sets. The first, in 2022, was a miniature Haunted Mansion. The next year brought us the Lego Ideas … Continue reading Spooky Lego: Disney Sets Day Thread (10/17)
In 2019, Lego’s big-swing original horror concept abandoned the 30s iconography of Pharaoh’s Quest and Monster Fighters in favor of a decidedly modern approach. In Hidden Side, contemporary tweens have determined that there’s a… concealed… facet of Newbury, the town … Continue reading Spooky Lego: Hidden Side Day Thread (10/15)
In 2014, one of the very first successful Lego Ideas projects was the Ghostbusters Ecto-1 seen in the featured image. To follow it up, Lego went on a bit of a spree of licensing other spooky properties. With all of … Continue reading Spooky Lego: Other Licensed Themes Day Thread (10/14)
Last minute thread Continue reading SNL50 Episode 3: Ariana Grande/Stevie Nicks
In 2015, somewhat out of the blue, Lego licensed Scooby-Doo for a single wave of sets. They were based on no particular series (which is probably for the best, since the new cartoon for that year was the hideous-looking Be … Continue reading Spooky Lego: Scooby-Doo Day Thread (10/9)
In 2012, Lego released their own action-adventure take on public domain monsters, called Monster Fighters. An elite squad of colorful characters took on Dracula, Frankenstein, a Wolfman, a Mummy, and even a Gillman. It was the Dark Universe five years … Continue reading Spooky Lego: Monster Fighters Day Thread (10/7)
Stand-up comic Nate Bargatze returns to Studio 8H less than a year after his hosting debut. I guess that George Washington sketch must’ve really done numbers on Youtube. It was pretty funny. Coldplay will also be there. Continue reading SNL50 Episode 2: Nate Bargatze/Coldplay
In 2011, Lego had a gap in their lineup. Adventurers, their ’00s Indiana Jones knockoff line, was long over. Their official Indiana Jones line, started in 2008 to coincide with the release of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, now also … Continue reading Spooky Lego: Pharaoh’s Quest Day Thread (10/5)
Lego’s first foray into horror was couched in artifice. While stalwarts like Castle and Pirates had always had their spooky elements (glow-in-the-dark ghosts, floppy-armed skeletons), it wasn’t until 2002 that the company produced a whole subtheme focused on scary settings … Continue reading Spooky Lego: Studios Day Thread (10/4)
SNL reaches its half-century mark, a milestone I’m sure it will be very chill and humble about! On tonight’s premiere it’s a 76th Primetime Emmy Awards Reunion, as Best Actress in a Comedy winner Jean Smart hosts with In Memoriam … Continue reading SNL50 Episode 1: Jean Smart/Jelly Roll
…in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent … Continue reading On the 23rd Night Thread of the Month of September
[For a Talking Like a Pirate audio version of this essay, listen here] π‘πππππ π¨π π π£πππ when the internet were an open sea, ripe for the taking? When the abyssal floor of the vasty deep lay yet unblemished by … Continue reading The 9/19 Day Thread Remembers Talking Like a Pirate
