“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread”
Earlier this week, NASA successfully tested its DART system for protecting the Earth from collisions with asteroids and comets. This reminded me of an earlier depiction of space catastrophe management, the 1968 film The Green Slime. In this movie, an … Continue reading The Day Thread is Invaded by Green Slime
It’s that time of year again! My Birthday! I love the Avocado and all the awesome people here! Have a wonderful day! Continue reading Another RiverSong BirthDAY THREAD (9/28)
Here’s a last-minute gay-ass Night Thread for you. Helen Back is the drag alter-ego of Philly performance artist Jimi Mooney. Here’s an interview from the old no-longer-in-publication Philly City Paper: https://mycitypaper.com/articles/2002-11-27/music2.shtml If you want to hear more of this album, … Continue reading Helen Back and the Str8 Razors Night Thread
Modern chess evolved, by incremental changes in its rules, from a Persian game called shatranj. Shatranj, in turn an import from India where the original game was chaturanga, spread throughout the Muslim world after the Arab conquest of Persia. The … Continue reading Shatranj Day Thread
Here’s George Gershwin at Piano painted by William Auerbach-Levy, and a performance of Rhapsody in Blue conducted by Leonard Bernstein (also playing piano). Happy second night of Rosh Hashanah. May you all have sweetness in the coming year. Continue reading George Gershwin Birthday (9/26) Night Thread
The next installment of My Favorite Synth Mixes is Strngr and Destryur’s Night at the Grindhouse from NewRetroWave. This is a short mix at only 41 minutes but the songs will make you think you are on the run from … Continue reading Night at the Grindhouse Day Thread (09/26)
God, dust is the worst… Continue reading The Night Thread HATES Dust
You folks like cats, right? Then maybe you’ll like “Fantastic Cat” by Takako Minekawa. Or not – it is kind of a weird song (and be warned – in spite of the title, the video above does not contain any … Continue reading Fantastic Cat Day Thread
“The Very Versatile F-Word” (also known as “The Most Interesting Word in the English Language”, “Fuck: The Word”, or simply “The Word ‘Fuck’”) is a short spoken word piece demonstrating the versatility of everyone’s favorite 4-letter word, complete with the … Continue reading The Very Versatile Night Thread
Have a Great Day Thread, Avocado! Continue reading SUPER GO!!!!! Day Thread
Six Finger Satellite (or 6FS) is a synthesizer-based post-hardcore band based in Providence, Rhode Island. Formed in 1990, the band was signed to Sub Pop Records in 1992 after submitting an “alternative rock”-styled demo tape which deliberately misrepresented their true … Continue reading Night Thread’s Got the RABIES!
“Late Mediaeval avant-garde music” would perhaps seem to be an oxymoron. But there was a remarkable, if short-lived, musical style in the late middle ages that could quite reasonably be described as just that – a style that, like atonality, … Continue reading A More Subtle Day Thread
Have a good night/day! Continue reading You Did Well Today Night Thread
Happy autumn to folks in the northern hemisphere and happy spring to those in the southern hemisphere! Continue reading Equinox Day Thread
Do you? Probably something about Batman. Continue reading I Don’t Remember Why I Signed Up for the September 21 Day Thread
Today (or yesterday, depending on your time zone) is the 31st birthday of your favourite-by-default extraterrestrial Avocado. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, I have spent today hanging around the pool, eating cake, and playing Splatoon 3. Hopefully, you have all had … Continue reading The space 👽’s Birthday Night Thread (20/9)
For most people, the ragtime genre is synonymous with the name Scott Joplin. Joplin was, of course, the undisputed master of the form, but he was far from its only major composer. Indeed, ragtime had an internal stylistic history of … Continue reading The Day Thread of Novelty Rags
September’s Open Thread Topic – Favorite Synthwave Mixes – rolls on with Odysseus and Retrolad. I really like the opening to this mix because it sounds like a laptop/computer booting up. That sound effect gets me every time! I really … Continue reading Retrolad Night Thread (09/19)
Lawbreakers operating in and around the ocean were getting tired of Aquaman spoiling their capers. To level the playing field, the notorious Dr. Krill developed a surgical procedure that would grant a human being all of the powers of a … Continue reading The Human Flying Fish Heists the Day Thread
