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This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings, photography, and even craft projects such as knitting and woodworking. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or … Continue reading Creative Endeavors Is Just Ducky
Thanksgiving is a strange holiday. It nominally commemorates a celebratory harvest dinner hosted by the Massachusetts Puritans in the fall of 1621, to which local Native Americans were invited in a spirit of friendship and gratitude for their help surviving … Continue reading John Redcorn’s Thankstaking History Thread
Welcome back! Our quest to find out who started the fire draws closer to a solution. There still haven’t been any ties, but Round 2’s closest bracket was Communist Bloc vs. Roy Cohn, 28 to 27. The biggest blowout went … Continue reading Who Started the Fire? Tournament – Round 3
A discussion of all things podcast related from throughout the week. Sorry, no featured podcast this week. I’ve been on vacation and haven’t listened to much. What did you listen to this week? Continue reading Pod People 11.19.18
If you have Netflix, you may have watched The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Notable filmmakers have been steadily dropping their films onto streaming services, but I’d argue none of them are as esteemed as the Coen Brothers (maybe you could … Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?
So this week is the US Thanksgiving holiday. It’s really the only holiday I care to celebrate anymore, and not because it commemorates a bunch of refugees/immigrants/invaders being accepted and taken care of by the indigenous people but because it’s … Continue reading Sunday Pre-Thanksgiving Food Thread, 11/18
We need pet pics more than ever. Give ’em! Continue reading The Pet Thread Parties
And we’re back after a necessary hiatus for more unnecessary thoughts. I loved the Rocky movies growing up – I’m a white, male after all – and so I recently read a review of the new Creed movie to see … Continue reading The Contras: It’s not for you
Instructions! Ask any kind of question relating to any kind of Pop Culture anything. It can be in-universe, it can be about the making-of, it can be about whatever you want. something at the tip of the tongue, a half … Continue reading Pop Culture Reference Desk – 54
For the vast majority of IP out there (that’s “Intellectual Property” to the layman), the ownership is pretty clear. It defaults to the person who created it, unless they are working for a company employing them to create it, in … Continue reading Death by Lawyer: IP Lost to Legal Limbo
<AHEM> If you commute in the mornings you’d best be prepared to wait even when nothing is broken your train is 12 min. late But that’s to be expected don’t cry over your hardship It’s not just you that’s … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 11/16/2018 – On the MTA
Welcome back to our quest to find out who started the fire in “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” There were 60 round one brackets, and tournaments are supposed to be exponents of two. To get this round of 30 back … Continue reading Who Started the Fire? Tournament – Round 2
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Avocado Fashion Club, the place to chat with your fellow commenters about style and trends, browse a curated selection of articles about what’s new in the world of fashion. We’re in the middle … Continue reading The Fashion Club: November Style & Remembering ‘The Nanny’ (9/15)
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+ Thread Feels Festive
Hey true crime fans, want to talk with your fellow Avocados about a favorite case, a recent piece of news, a podcast you’re catching up on, a documentary, on anything else true crime? Welcome to the weekly true crime open … Continue reading True Crime-ocado: A Weekly Discussion For All Things True Crime
Thriftstorm is Captain Video’s secondhand anthropology project. Follow @Thriftstorm on Twitter for the latest news on things people were just going to throw away. Artifact: My American Cousin VHS tape Description: 94 minutes, color, monophonic sound. Packaged in a plastic shell case … Continue reading Thriftstorm #14: My American Cousin Goes There
Hello everyone, and welcome to this week’s Japanese pop culture thread! I apologize for the delay in getting it up this week.[footnote]I have already anticipated all your boner jokes. Laugh away, you weebs.[/footnote] This week, I’m spotlighting Boarding School Juliet, … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (November 14th, 2018)
Have at it, folks! Continue reading Tolerable Discussions 11.14.2018
In his widely disliked smash hit “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” singer Billy Joel shotguns out people, things and events that came up in the first 40 years of his life. The chorus affirms that “we didn’t start the fire … Continue reading Who Started the Fire? Tournament – Round 1
The Pumpkin Spice Blahs Welcome to another The Pumpkin Spice Must Flow, where I irregularly post about products made with that most extraordinary combination of flavors, pumpkin pie spice (or just “pumpkin spice”). A handful of pumpkin spice products … Continue reading The Pumpkin Spice Must Flow #8
hello friends, opportunity to talk about yourself movie. Talking about yourself is fun and revealing if you do it right. I think that anybody’s craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very … Continue reading The Pivot Questionnaire (“Inside The Actor’s Studio” Questions)
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