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Good day and welcome to another edition of the Comic Book Chat! Today’s discussion – Your Favorite Super Villain! Tell us who your favorite bad guy is in the comic book realm! Tell us why you love or hate them … Continue reading Comic Book Chat – Favorite Super Villain
Welcome to the Book Nook! This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism. This week’s recommended discussion: We don’t all read biographies, but I sometimes run out of discussion … Continue reading The Book Nook
Sports Illustrated came into its own from a bumpy start in the 30s and 40s, selling a lifestyle of polo and yachting to a niche group of upper-class readers. After being sold to Time-Life, the magazine limped along until the … Continue reading Let’s Read Sports Illustrated, May 23 1960!
Created this thread based on this subthread from Sheriff Lobo: “What book(s) do you feel has expanded your worldview, positively influenced how you move about society, or generally had an impact on who you are?” Continue reading This Book Changed My Life
INDEFATIGABLE! or THE ASTOUNDING BIRTH, IMPRESSIVE CAREER, SHOCKING DEATH, AND AMAZING TURNING-OUT-TO-HAVE-BEEN-ALIVE-THE-WHOLE-TIMEFULNESS of the LEGENDARY ADVENTURER known only as THE BLACK MOSQUITO, who is both THE GREATEST THIEF OF ALL TIME and also a STAGGERINGLY BEAUTIFUL LADY and is also … Continue reading The Black Mosquito
Here’s the place to chat about the comics you picked up this week, and anything else you might be reading! And be sure to check out the Comic Book Chat posted by MrSplendiferous! Continue reading Weekly Comics Thread, 31-JAN-2018
Good morning and welcome to another Comic Book Chat. Team Zissou reached out to me with a recommendation for a discussion. His suggestion : Your Favorite Comic Book Couple. Comment your favorite comic book couple – there are a multitude … Continue reading Comic Book Chat – Comic Book Couples
Welcome to the Book Nook! This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism. This week’s recommended discussion: Some books are crammed to the gills with plot, characters, theme, style, … Continue reading The Book Nook
Another Avocado Book Club, and once more it’s time for us to select something to read. Please for the love of God don’t make me pen discussion prompts for L’Étranger. Continue reading The ABC – Hostile Takeover Edition
A monthly feature in which the budding writers of the site gather to discuss their creative processes and share advice. Continue reading The Process: Story Structure
Let’s put some generations in perspective this week. This issue of Harper’s is all about the youth – a veritable album of youth! Covering parenting, babies, young children, and college-aged women (weirdly, teenagers are almost entirely skipped over – Elvis … Continue reading Let’s Read Harper’s Bazaar, August 1936!
I’m posting on behalf of Arjuna Matata, who posted the following interesting question in the Day Thread (but didn’t feel like setting up a WordPress account): What pop culture do you dislike because it isn’t what you thought it would … Continue reading It Isn’t What We Thought It Was: Pop Culture that Wasn’t What You Wanted
Here’s the place to chat about the comics you picked up this week, and anything else you might be reading! A little housekeeping: I moved these to Thursdays because in the old place, it was easier to lose the thread … Continue reading Weekly Comics Thread, 25-JAN-2018
Good morning Comic Book Brethren – It’s time for another Comic Book Chat! Today’s topic – Your LCS – aka Your Local Comic Shop! In Pittsburgh, there are two comic book stores I like to visit. My local comic shop … Continue reading Comic Book Chat – Your Local Comic Shop
Welcome to the Book Nook! This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism. This week’s recommended discussion: I can’t believe it’s been 97 weeks before it’s occurred to me … Continue reading The Book Nook
I’m a bit too raw to write a proper obit right now. Let’s have a thread to discuss one of the most wonderful writers to ever live. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html The fantastic Avocado book club discussions of The Left Hand of Darkness … Continue reading RIP Ursula K. LeGuin
What began in 1988 as a Nintendo fan club newsletter grew to become a staple in the lives of many 90s kids as Nintendo Power. Nintendo of America executive Gail Tilden built a magazine that in addition to providing video … Continue reading Let’s Read Nintendo Power, April 1992!
Here’s the place to chat about the comics you picked up this week, and anything else you might be reading! Continue reading Weekly Comics Thread, 18-JAN-2018
Welcome to the Book Nook! This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism. This week’s recommended discussion: Do you have any books that are a struggle to conquer? Books … Continue reading The Book Nook
You like The X-Files and Stranger Things and the not-racist parts of H.P. Lovecraft’s writings. You’ve heard good things about Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, and you’re willing to give it a shot, but looking it up online you discover there are … Continue reading Getting into the Mignolaverse
How you used to find stuff to watch on TV in a pre-cable world: you channel surfed through all eight channels on your TV (maybe you had a few more with a separate “rabbit ears” antenna on top of the … Continue reading Let’s Read TV Guide, March 1976!
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