Hey, all; Healthy Friday – As per CNN, another 3 million Americans filed for unemployment last week; with that number not expected to go down any time soon. I know that we try to keep it light, here, … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 5/15/2020 – Working From Home Edition VIII: – The Destruction of Jared-Syn
It’s round 2 of the playoffs! 512 songs remain, and will face off in groups of 32 per day. No more byes, so all the heaviest hitters are here! Since it’s the playoffs, groups will be active until 9:00 am … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1996-2000: Playoffs, Round 2 (Part 8 of 16)
Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Shuffle Thread, your favorite place to show off your shuffle! Today the Weekly Shuffle Thread was made special… because our word of the day is MADE! Share your favorite songs featuring … Continue reading A Weekly Shuffle Thread MADE With Love!
Here are the contestants for this encore episode from November 30, 2004: David, a college student from Minnesota, is a Trebekkie; Nancy, a realtor from California, adopted a daugher from China; and Ken, a software engineer from Utah, hasn’t quit … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Fri., May 15 – encore of last game of Ken’s original run
In Which Everything Changed When the Fire Nation Attacked Making a good pilot is hard, making a good pilot for a high concept genre show is next to impossible. For the start of such a program, whether fantasy, sci-fi, or … Continue reading Re-Avatar State: “The Boy in the Iceberg” & “The Avatar Returns”
In one way, children’s entertainment has come a long way from the dawn of television. In another way, we lost the ability to create art where the barrier to entry was a lot lower, and all a person needed was … Continue reading Beany and Cecil fights over a couple of puppets
Happy Friday every one! Let’s all spend the day eating spinach puffs, courtesy of Kronk. Continue reading The Day Thread Has Spinach Puffs
There’s almost a cottage industry of people talking about favorites, polling them, ranking them, and all that. Which is certainly a fun and enjoyable pastime, since we’re no longer comparing a couple of films made a few decades ago and … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 24: Your Favorite Comic Book Movie
“Space, The final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. It’s five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!” Spectre of … Continue reading Star Trek: TOS The Best Episodes
It’s Friday! Can you believe its Friday again? Sure you can. There’s of course new music! And this week there’s new music I’m real excited about – Charli XCX is releasing her “4th” album, written and recorded during her time … Continue reading Friday New Music 5/15
Season 1 Episode 7 of the Franchise Festival podcast is out now and it covers the history of The Legend of Zelda‘s infamously bad CD-i spinoffs! We played them so you don’t have to. We also open with a discussion … Continue reading Franchise Festival Podcast – Season 1 Episode 7: CD-i Spinoffs
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 Type: Forced Order Quiz Note: Example — Ray Barone (Everybody Loves … Continue reading Triviacados: Friday, May 15, 2020
Welcome back to Franchise Festival, where we explore and discuss noteworthy video game series from the last four decades. Older entries can be found here. This week we’ll be discussing the grisly remains of Mortal Kombat. Cover art, unless otherwise … Continue reading Franchise Festival #90: Mortal Kombat
Good Morning Politicadoes. Happy Friday! You may have heard that Obama did something so horrible, so criminal, so unjustifiable that they locked him up in a gated community and threw away the key. Or something like that. Look, you all … Continue reading The Friday Politics Threadgate
With just a few hours of the day left, today is still David Byrne’s birthday. Happy birthday to 1/4 of the band Talking Heads and a major figurehead of the modern Alternative and Indie scene. Continue reading The Night Thread Remains in Light
Mais ouis, mes amis, but this week’s episode surely is perhaps the darkest, most bleak time spent with Our Belgian to date in the series as a whole. Fortunately for us, dear readers, it’s also one of the best in … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S09E01 “Five Little Pigs”
We’re close to the end of the road. Four films still remain on claiming the title of “Greatest Best Picture Winner Ever” (as picked by members of the Avocado). But before we start, let’s pour one out to the films … Continue reading Best “Best Picture” Tournament Semi Finals
My grandmother’s house was built in 1886. It was a row house, typical of the factory cities of the northeast, with three rooms (and a bathroom) on the ground floor, two bedrooms upstairs (where 7 people lived for a while … Continue reading A Pleasing Terror: Horror and Me, A Prologue
By popular request, here’s a live-chat thread for today’s State of Play presentation on the upcoming Ghost of Tsushima, scheduled for 4 PM EDT/1 PM PDT. Shakuhachis welcome. Continue reading Sony State of Play: Ghost of Tsushima Live-Chat
The cast of the inaugural season of Canada’s Drag Race was unveiled earlier today! The season features twelve fierce queens vying for the crown. The show is co-hosted by Brooke Lynn Hytes, actor Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman and model Stacey McKenzie. Canada’s … Continue reading Canada’s Drag Race: Cast Reveal Discussion Thread
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