Post your Top 25 (or however many you feel like) songs that start with the letter P here. Ranked or unranked, it’s not important. Just go with what feels right to you. Personally, I limit my own list to … Continue reading Songs by the Letter: Your Top P Songs
Briefings are hard. Politics is hard. If the president doesn’t have to read then neither do I. Which is to say that it’s appalling that our current president can’t even be bothered to read 10 pages of writing. You know, … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Didn’t Read
Definitely worth watching Continue reading The Incomparable Nina Simone Night Thread (2/11/18)
From the beginning, Discovery has been concerned with identity. Burnham’s human nature pushing against her Vulcan upbringing. Saru’s fearful instincts holding back his heroic responsibilities as a Starfleet officer. Ash Tyler’s past as Voq, and then Voq’s outsider status as an … Continue reading Star Trek: Discovery, S1E15: Will You Take My Hand?
Hello and welcome to another Olympic Thread, where we’ll be discussing curling and all the other sports that happen to be not-curling. Given my rather harsh deadline for work, I am gonna update the thread after it goes online, around … Continue reading Olympic Winter Games 2/12: Olympicados Hope For Mondayful’o’sunshine
Join us for a discussion about Supernatural – s13e13 – “Devil’s Bargain”! Continue reading Supernatural: S13E13 – “Devil’s Bargain”
Arrowverse Review Index Supergirl 3×13: “Both Sides Now”, The Flash 4×13: “True Colors”, Black Lightning 1×04: “Black Jesus”, and Arrow 6×13: “The Devil’s Greatest Trick” Buildup and payoff. Those are the core pillars that serialized television is built on. … Continue reading This Week In The Arrowverse: 02/05/2018 – 02/11/2018: “Thank You, Frosty Oprah!”
Season three finishes off with a bang! None of the past few episodes of have been bad, but this episode feels like it shifted up a gear in energy; I don’t know whether the crew wanted to save their best … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Three, Episode Twenty-Four, “Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?”
I finally caught up with some of the more challenging and lengthy films of world cinema that had been high on my to do list the past year: the full 12h 40m cut of Jacques Rivette’s Out 1 (1971) -it … Continue reading Double Features: The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) and The Duellists (1977)
Post an odd pop culture preference you have and state why, but not just any preference. Your preferred one, the one you would save from being destroyed over the other, should be SMALLER than the other. For instance, Glyph said … Continue reading Glyphian Underdog Thread
A week or so ago day a friend posted this 2014 opinion piece about the virtues of never cooking. Despite the dripping condescension of the piece (at first I thought it may have been a tongue-in-cheek swipe at millenials or … Continue reading Sunday Food Thread 2/11
It was fifty-five years prior to this date of publication that the main recording session for the Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me, took place. As Mark Lewisohn, the Beatles’ foremost biographer, later wrote, there have scarcely been 585 more … Continue reading Album Spotlight: The Beatles—Please Please Me
“Far Beyond the Stars” is the 13th episode of season 6 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and today is the 20th anniversary of the original airdate. So I figured I’d write a little bit about it, as it is … Continue reading Far Beyond the Day Thread
Soon, the Rooster will take it’s coop, and the Dog will have its year. Continue reading Rise of the Doggo Night Thread
PyeongChang is slowly waking up to another day packed with winter action and snowy fun. Athletes from all over the world grab their skis, skates and boards and prepare to represent their homelands. Who will take home one of the … Continue reading Olympic Winter Games 2/11: First Olympic Weekend Ends With 7 Gold Medals Up For Grabs
It was 11 minutes after the hour, just as the last light she would ever see faded into darkness, when a bloodcurdling scream rang out through the halls of Titanic. Soon a handful of passengers and crew were at the scene. A … Continue reading White Star, Red Blood, Chapter One: A Night To Remember (7:00 PM)
It’s time for the occasional intoduce yourself thread Some ideas to get you started: story of your username/ avatar how you learned about the Avocado pop cuture interests age/ age range area of the world you live in career/ job/ … Continue reading Introduce Yo’ Self!
It’s time for another State of the Avocado update! The format for this one will be a little different. We (the mods) felt that some of the rules and guidelines needed a refresher and clarification. So below, we are going … Continue reading State of the Avocado: Rules Deep Dive Edition
And no one was the wiser… Continue reading Pet Thread: Infiltrates The Clique And Your Hearts (2/10)
Let’s play a little game. Here at the Avocado, many of us like to quote dialogue from The Simpsons at every opportunity. But I thought it might be fun to see how long we can carry on an intelligible conversation … Continue reading The Simpsons Quote Conversation Challenge
“And from above you how I sank into your soul” In 1997, an American man named Jeff Mangum picked up Anne Frank’s diary and fell in love. The love he felt wasn’t particularly platonic, either. Mangum developed powerful romantic feelings … Continue reading In the Dayoplane Over the Thread
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