Going through archives from before and preserving this Welcome to the penultimate review of The Carousel! Today we’re talking about the penultimate episode. Spiny will review the finale soon, and as you all know Mad Men Day in Wednesday July 19! … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men -“The Milk and Honey Route”
Hi all, Welcome to the occasional thread about all things parental. <i> Please only comment if you are a parent / grandparent/ caregiver/ or work with children. </i> Any and all parental topics are welcome at any time. Since it’s … Continue reading Parental Guidance: Back to School/Work/ Babies edition
Hello everyone. The purpose of this feature is to highlight and plug the variety of discussions around the Avocado and encourage everyone to “go outside” the OT and / or PT. Please take the survey about the OT, and discuss the … Continue reading The Pluggers, August 2019 – GO OUTSIDE (the PT and OT)
The final season of OINTB drops on July 26. Emily Todd VanDerWerff has written this piece about it’s importance: It’s one of the first major steaming shows, it has ambitions and imperfections. To paraphrase Emily, the show often seems like a … Continue reading Spoil Sports / Retrospective:Orange is the New Black
**sheepishly peeks in Oh, hi. I’ve forgotten to do the the last 2 months. This is a place to plug discussions and features that may not be seen or read by some community members. Also a good space to workshop … Continue reading The Pluggers- Summer Solstice Edition: What’s Interesting Around The Avocado
Hello, this is Miss Rim, filling in for Waffles. Today’s suggested topic is women in politics. If you are an Avocado that participates in the Polotics Thread, you will have noticed there has been a LOT of discussion about sexism … Continue reading The Women+ Thread gets political
Spoilers Abound! Lets’s talk about the series finale of Veep without using spoiler tags! And do check out Let’s Talk About Splett, Richard’s Splett’s blog at https://www.splettnet.net/ Continue reading Veep Series finale sticks the landing, unlike that other show, probably
I have a special plug this month: The Menu! Located at the top of the page, or the right top corner on mobile, it’s right there for you if you are looking for something. In “Repeats” you’ll find lots of the regular … Continue reading The Pluggers April 2019 would like to re-introduce you to the menu
Welcome to the very occasional parenting thread! For parents and caregivers. It seems like quite a few Avocados have new editions to their families! Figured this was a good time to post this. Complain, vent, ask/ share advice, brag… … Continue reading Parental Guidance – New Arrivals Edition
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Some guidelines to help this space be a positive experience for everyone: ☮ As always with the Avocado, don’t feel compelled to share beyond your comfort level. ☮ Anyone who identifies as female, or who was socialized female/AFAB/otherwise has firsthand experience with … Continue reading The Women’s+ Thread Celebrates Women’s History Month
Hello, and welcome to Cathar -takes: The bad take thread that we are trying out. One of the takeaways from the recent survey about the daily politics thread was that we often find catharsis in pointing and laughing at ridiculous, … Continue reading “Cathar-takes:” the”bad take” thread
There’s more to The Avocado that the daily PT and OTs! Plug your favorites here! Continue reading The Pluggers March 2019
It’s time for the Introduce yourself thread. There are a few new members of the community here and WELCOME! There are also some people who have been around a bit but I, Miss Rim, can’t sort out the changing usernames. … Continue reading Introduce Yourself!
Here’s the space to discuss the presidential address you are hate watching. Or let others hate watch for you and keep yourself updated. The usual rules apply – no wishing death or harm on public figures in writing on … Continue reading Presidential Address Tuesday Jan 8, 2019
There are tons of interesting discussions around the channel, here is a place to plug your favorites, inquire about contributing to regular, recurring, occasional threads, and / or workshop future projects. This thread will go up once a month and … Continue reading The Pluggers: What’s Interesting Around The Avocado
Welcome to a new feature – The Pluggers! There are tons of interesting discussions around the channel, here is a place to plug your favorites, inquire about contributing to regular, recurring, occasional threads, and / or workshop future projects. This … Continue reading The Pluggers: What’s Interesting Around the Avocado
Hi everyone! Here is your State of the Channel: Holiday Edition! Giftmas is coming – if you have signed up to participate in that, check out details here. End-of-the-Year pop culture lists are nigh… we usually call them … Continue reading State of the Channel Holiday Edition
Hi everyone and welcome to the occasional Avocado parenting / caregiver thread! This is a place to talk about The Children, no matter how old they are. Vent, despair, ask advice / share etc. Usually there’s a topic as a … Continue reading Parental Guidance: What’s New?
Hi- I’m Miss Rim, Welcome to Chapter 5! Sorry I’m late! Let’s get to it! St. John awoke peacefully, under an eiderdown comforter in a four poster bed. The curtains were open to let in the dappled morning sun. … Continue reading The Exquisite Corpse of Ava Cotto: Part 5
Welcome to the first “Parent / Teacher Conference,” I guess. I’m posting a Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom / Parental Guidance thread to discuss teaching kids about touching and consent. OBVIOUSLY, the Kavanaugh hearing is the inspiration for this. How … Continue reading Parental Guidance / Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom: Teaching Touching and Consent
