Hello! If you’re reading this you’ve decided that you love musicals so much that you want to go back and read the old Musicals Threads. That’s great! Feel free to comment and join us each Tuesday to discuss all things … Continue reading Musicals Thread (TV)
The full chart: http://americantop40.wikia…. How’s the chart as a whole? 1987 is a huge year in pop; an echo of 1984 with blockbuster albums that are really quite good, a crop of breakout stars, and a goldmine of forgotten pop nuggets … Continue reading American Top 40 Flashback: October 3, 1987
10/02/2017 – James Wan: Dead Silence (2007) Directed by James Wan In 2003, two Australians (one born in Malaysia) made a 9 minute short on a shoestring budget in order to be able to pitch a full length version of this idea. … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – James Wan: Dead Silence
The team sat quietly in the darkness. They thought about poor Jack. He had taken his death in stride, just like everything else in life, but they couldn’t shake the guilt of being wrong, twice now. The sound of the … Continue reading Werewolf 42: Cyberpunk 2 Car 3: The Meat Fridge
Rick and Morty Season 3 Episode 10: “The Rickchurian Mortydate” Grade: C- Well that was… infuriating. Which I guess is kind of the point. We’ll see at the start of the next season (probably) how all the changes in … Continue reading “The Rickchurian Mortydate” Rick and Morty S3 E10
10/01/2017 – TV Movies: The Plumber (1979) Directed by Peter Weir Welcome to the another month of horror films and more. If you missed my intro to this project you can check it out here but this is my fourth year of these write … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – TV Movies: The Plumber
Editor’s Note: All of these links point to the channel but going forth I will be editing in links to the correct page on this site for all of 2017. This is merely for easy convenience for those seeking the … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Intro
In TV criticism, there’s a pretty common cliche – that I myself use all the time – that a mediocre episode of a particular TV show is still better than most television, and this episode is a great demonstration of … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Three, Episode Five, “Homer Defined”
Welcome to the second half of the WWII-era magazine review! Last week was a working-class general interest magazine from 1941, when America was on the brink of war and desperately itching for a reason to go. This week we’re looking … Continue reading Let’s Read Harper’s Bazaar from 1942!
The train entered a tunnel, and everything went dark. It went quiet as well. A few people moved around. Some coughs, but otherwise just the humming of the engine and the tunnel winds. 18 minutes felt like hours. Occasionally Zenon … Continue reading Werewolf 42: Cyberpunk 2 Car 2: The Switch
The full chart: https://weeklytop40.wordpress.com/1981/09/26/us-top-40-singles-week-ending-september-26-1981/ How’s the chart as a whole? I regret wasting that F on last week’s chart from 1986. While that chart was full of tacky, disposable music, much of it was at least peppy and listenable. 1981, … Continue reading American Top 40 Flashback: September 26, 1981
Hello! If you’re reading this you’ve decided that you love musicals so much that you want to go back and read the old Musicals Threads. That’s great! Feel free to comment and join us each Tuesday to discuss all things … Continue reading Musicals Thread (Feeling Blue)
The Resistance had seen a resurgence in strength since 2 years prior. The base invasion had left them with fewer members, but more determination. They had rid themselves of the System moles and survived the worst of the attacks. Now, … Continue reading Werewolf 42: Cyberpunk 2 Car 1: A Train to Catch
Rick and Morty Season 3 Episode 9: “The ABC’s of Beth” Grade: B+ A dialogue-heavy episode allows for a whole lot of zingers. I’m going to need to watch this again soon to get the entirety of it- there’s a … Continue reading “The ABC’s of Beth” Rick and Morty S3 E9
The previous episode found a vein of both comedy and pathos in the limits of Homer’s assholishness; “Bart The Murderer” finds it in Lisa Bart. As he’ll put it a few seasons later, Bart doesn’t want to be a criminal, he wants … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Three, Episode Four, “Bart The Murderer”
For this week and next week, I will be spotlighting the great era of American print journalism during World War II. I say “great” in part because of the outstanding quality of art, prose, and intellectualism that the magazines of … Continue reading Let’s Read Liberty Magazine from 1941!
Time for a new game of Werewolf! This next game is going to be a sequel to the first game I hosted: Cyberpunk! If you’d like to look over the previous drama, you can read through The Story or for a full … Continue reading Werewolf 42: Cyberpunk 2 Signups
Hello! If you’re reading this you’ve decided that you love musicals so much that you want to go back and read the old Musicals Threads. That’s great! Feel free to comment and join us each Tuesday to discuss all … Continue reading Musicals Thread (The First!)
“You can never give / the finger to the blind.” And with that bizarre, hilarious non-sequitur dryly delivered over a rubbery, wobbly slow-motion guitar riff, Luna took off. Luna was the successor to songwriter/guitarist Dean Wareham’s beloved cult band Galaxie … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Luna
Lt. Barclay was nervous. Everything happening on this ship, the changelings, life on the Enterprise was never this stressful. The holodeck. The holodeck was a refuge, a safe harbor nothing bad could ever happen on the holodeck. But Lt. Barclay … Continue reading Werewolf Away Team – Day 6
One of the major aspects of The Simpsons fall from grace is Jerkass Homer, the name given to the warped version of Homer over the seasons that Mike Scully was showrunner (named after a line where Homer nearly runs over someone, crying … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Three, Episode Three, “When Flanders Failed”
