When the Beatles’ album catalog was released in 1987 for the first time on CD, EMI realized that there were a number of songs that had never been included on albums which would become otherwise unavailable. So they put together … Continue reading Album Spotlight: The Beatles—Past Masters
This book, tentatively titled The Numa Legacy, is a collaboration between ten different members of the Avocado. Every week, a different member will publish a new chapter, and after that the story is out of their hands. See here for Chapter 1, … Continue reading The Exquisite Corpse of Ava Cotto: Part 3
This article will be discussing three of author China Miéville’s novels known informally as the “Bas-Lag Trilogy”; Perdido Street Station (2000), The Scar (2002) and Iron Council (2004). If you have not read any or all of these books, please … Continue reading Pitch Meeting: Expanding the Bas-Lag Trilogy
Tonight’s episode of SNL is hosted by Awkwafina, with musical guest Travis Scott. This will be a debut appearance for both. This also marks the second time in SNL history that an Asian woman has hosted after Lucy Liu in 2000. … Continue reading Saturday Night Live Season 44 Episode 2
My tribute to silent horror shorts this month continues with Georges Melies’ 1896 film, The Haunted Castle/The House of the Devil/The Devil’s Castle (it has many names). It’s a neat little film, considered by many to be the first horror … Continue reading Scott OT #135: The Night Threads Spends a Night in the Haunted Castle/the House of the Devil (10/6)
Flock & Tingle is John Teti’s interim column about pro football, published here at The Avocado on the gracious invitation of the moderators while John works on a new website to publish his things and have fun and such. In … Continue reading How to watch Thursday Night Football: Embrace the mess
Post pictures of your furry, feathery, scaly, or otherwise-adorned friends here. PS — Shout out to cuttles for shepherding this thread for so long! I’ll happily keep posting these every Saturday at noon EST, but if anyone yearns to take … Continue reading The Pet Thread Is Patient
Sarah Millican is the funniest thing to come out of the North east of England since, well, Ross Noble is funny too so that’s not a huge time span. Anyway, she’s funny. She’s several other F-words, feisty, feminist and a … Continue reading The Be a Millican, Not a Millican’t Day Thread
10/5/2018 – Barbara Peeters: Humanoids from the Deep (1980) Directed by Barbara Peeters In the nine years that passed between the release of The Velvet Vampire and that of today’s movie, the pickings for female directed horror films were slim. 1973’s Messiah … Continue reading Month of Horror 2018: A/S/L – Barbara Peeters: Humanoids from the Deep
Lacrimosa dies illa | Full of tears will be that day Qua resurget ex favilla | When from the ashes shall arise Judicandus homo reus. | The guilty man to be judged. — “Lacrimosa dies illa,” Requiem in D Minor, … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Rises From the Ashes
Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Oct. 5 – Today’s contestants are: – Adam, a dad/lawyer from Georgia, taught in the Marshall Islands; – Maureen, a high school teacher from California, met “frugal” Cary Grant after he visited the $2 window at … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Oct. 5
Modern Priscilla ran from 1887 to 1930, as a staple hobby and homemaking magazine that focused heavily on needlework and fashion design. This is a homemaking magazine for middle-class women who have the time to make things like tatted lace and … Continue reading Let’s Read Modern Priscilla, August 1920!
1- Post a SFW (or at least spoilered) gif 2- Identify the source 3-??? 4- Profit! Continue reading Identify This Gif
WARNING: This is a Not Safe For Work (NSFW) discussion! If you are afraid of others seeing what’s on your screen, leave now and come back later! Greetings, Avocadoans! Welcome to the second LGBTQQIA+ discussion of the week, this one … Continue reading The LGBT+ Sex & Relationships Discussion
that glove looks goofy to me idky Continue reading Aquaman Full Trailer Reaction Thread
It’s time for another round of Muppet Casting, where we take a famous movie and ask, if Jim Henson’s Muppets made their own version of it (in the vein of The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island), which Muppets … Continue reading Muppet Casting: Alien(s)
SPOILER WARNING: The rules of this game give minor spoilers for season one of The Good Place. Welcome! Everything is fine. This is always the hardest part of the job, but here goes nothing: You have DIED. You might have … Continue reading Werewolves 73 — The Medium Place — Day One
Hey, all; Happy Friday. Now, given recent events, I know today has meant a lot for many people, and I would never think of trivializing those feelings. However, I still have to admit that, much as I’ve been following … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 10/5/2018
Beware, you’re in for a Scare! That was the tagline for the Goosebumps series of books by R.L. Stine. This post is to discuss your favorite book in the series. You can find a complete list here to help jog your … Continue reading Favorite Goosebumps Book
Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Shuffle Thread, helping you get your shuffle on every Friday at 12 noon EST. Today, our theme is songs that tell the truth – meaning songs with the word TRUE … Continue reading The Weekly Shuffle Thread is Tried and TRUE!
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