“Gift for you, Mister Edge,” said the intercom. “Want it sent up to your office? That’s odd , thought Morgan Edge, real estate mogul and the richest non-Luthor in Metropolis. No one likes me enough to give me gifts . … Continue reading Harley and Ivy: Chapter 1 (by comicalArchitect)
Name a musician or band you love and try to summarize what their music is about, what they’re trying to express or communicate in their work at large. Continue reading Describe an Artist’s Ethos
This Night Thread is dedicated to the song “Golden Boy” by the Mountain Goats, an early B-side about how you should try to be a good person so you can go to heaven and eat the Singaporean brand of peanuts … Continue reading There Are No Pan-Asian Supermarkets Down in the Night Thread, So You Can’t Buy Golden Boy Peanuts
Name the 10, 25, or even 50 best songs by an artist you like! Argue about each other’s choices! Have fun! Continue reading Best Songs by an Artist
Get to it! (Subtitle means nothing, this is business as usual.) Continue reading Rank the Tracks: Hyperturboextreme edition
y’all know how this works by now Continue reading I wanna rank! (tracks!) I waaant tooo raaaaank! (tracks!)
You know how this works by now. Continue reading Rank the Tracks on an Album, You Crazy Diamond
You got the munch. The crisp and the crunch. Livin’ in the gutter with Grandma… When Coach puts you in,— You gotta go for the win. Y2K turned out all riiiight! SBLOUNSKCHED! You can do it! SBLOUNSKCHED! Crunchy chew it! … Continue reading The Night Thread Got SBLOUNSKCHED!
Y’all know how this works Continue reading Rank the Songs on an Album: The Next One
Bring up an album you love, and make an argument as to why a certain line/quotation is the key to understanding the album as a whole. Continue reading Most Important Line on an Album
Choose an artist you like, and take your favorite song from each of their albums. (Or if you don’t know EVERY album well, just do the ones you are familiar with.) Continue reading Favorite Song from Each Album by an Artist
Transpose the characters from one show into the premise of another—for instance, what if Pawnee’s parks department was all on Oceanic flight 815? Or what if Frasier and Niles traveled the country hunting demons like the Winchesters? Go nuts, be as … Continue reading Characters from X in Y show
Pitch your reboot of a canceled show, preferably one that hasn’t been on in a long time. Continue reading Reboot a TV show
20. Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer Toni Cade Bambara once said, “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” On her third studio album, Janelle Monáe becomes fully comfortable in that role. Breaking away from the sci-fi trappings of … Continue reading comicalArchitect’s Top 20 Albums of 2018
One of my favorite webcomics is El Goonish Shive, by Dan Shive. (No, the title does not mean anything, other than including the cartoonist’s last name. He jut couldn’t think of a better title.) El Goonish Shive is the ongoing story of … Continue reading Day Thread of El Goonish Shive
Talk about favorite moments in music—a great delivery of a lyric, a killer key change, an awe-inspiring riff… Continue reading Favorite Musical Moments
