Welcome to Love Island: Avocado! This game theme is based on the British reality show of the same name and will be Advanced in difficulty. This will be run much more like the reality show it’s based on than like … Continue reading WW133 – Love Island: Avocado (Sign Up)
Tell us about what games you’ve been playing. Bonus topic: How long is your typical gaming session? What’s the longest gaming marathon you’ve had? Continue reading Weekly Games Thread endures
Welcome back to this special retrospective music-posting feature. The gimmick is simple — each week, you post your favorite 25 (or whatever) albums of a given year. We are now moving backwards until we run out of either albums or … Continue reading Albums By The Year: 1994
Group play is over, and it’s almost time for the top 256! But, before we start that, we have one final, desperate plea for expanded horizons: it’s the Diversity Runoff! Our initial top 256 featured 16 songs from Final Fantasy … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 2001-2004: Diversity Runoff Playoff
Never. Swallow. A dentic! If “I, E.T.” was Farscape establishing its Planet-of-the-Week framework, “Exodus from Genesis” lays out the boundaries for a Farscape Ship-in-Trouble episode. Moya has been infested by a swarm of extremely large bugs; the temperature is rising … Continue reading The Wonders I’ve Seen: 1×03, “Exodus from Genesis”
It’s that time of year again! My Birthday! I’ll keep it simple this year. I love the Avocado and all the wonderful people here! Happy Birthday to everyone else (including the bundt pen) who has a birthday today and have … Continue reading Another RiverSong BirthDAY THREAD (9/28)
This one may cut out some of the audience but you can play the flip side as well. There’s a good bit of age range to work with here so you can hit up where you want, but as a … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 28: Your Favorite Book To Read As A Parent
Can the first person here each day create a Results thread so it’s always first when sorted by Oldest? That will make it much easier to track results. Quiz Note: Combine the clues to create a book title. For example: ‘Godlike’ and … Continue reading Triviacados: Monday, September 28, 2020
With 200K Dead, Trump Spews Lies Then Golfs for the 298th Time During His Presidency The president seemingly does not care about the more than 200,000 Americans who have lost their lives as a result of the coronavirus, but we … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Surging
It’s officially autumn. I wish we had an autumn season where I live, but instead we just get three more months of summer. For those of you who live in places where the weather changes, how are you taking advantage … Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?
Episode Grade: B Well, here we are. Season 11 of Bob’s Burgers, the little show that could. After years of being shuffled around the schedule, and getting stuck in the 7:30 slot as often as not, Bob’s returns for its … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers S11E01: “Dream a Little Bob of Bob”
Daniil Kharms was a native of Leningrad who published children’s books. He was also involved in the avant garde surrealist movement and his short stories and plays were published in underground magazine. Arrested many times, he finally perished in prison … Continue reading The Night Thread of Daniil Kharms
Hippolyta’s relentless search for answers takes her on a multidimensional journey of self-discovery and Atticus heads to St. Louis to consult an old family friend. Continue reading Lovecraft Country S1E6 “I Am.” Live Thread
I estimate that I have written close to 480,000 words on Faith No More in various comment sections of this site alone. What’s 12,000 more? Part 7 of 7 Part 1 here. Part 2 here. Part 3 here. Part 4 … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Faith No More (or; I Won’t Forget You When I’m In Hell) [Part 7 of 7]
A consistent theme in these essays over season nine is how well it continues to capture the mindset of children, which is something that The Simpsons has always done. The weakest element of the season is how it seems to … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Nine, Episode Eighteen, “This Little Wiggy”
Not quite Adventure Time, but with a comment section not much less off-topic than the AV Club review ones. It’s Animation Time! What animated things have you been into lately? What’s a recent episode of something you saw that lacks a dedicated review … Continue reading Animation Time
On September 20, 1990 – CBS premiered The Flash TV series starring John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen/ The Flash. Amanda Pays and Alex Desert rounded out the cast. Although this iteration of the Scarlet Speedster only lasted one season, … Continue reading CBS The Flash’s 30th Anniversary
What have you been eating lately that’s good? I totally lost track of days this week so the only discussion prompt is “Let’s Eat!” Continue reading Sunday Food Thread 9/27
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