This week’s header uses as its starting point a neat article about recent efforts by amateur culinarians to recreate ancient recipes and cooking styles. The main focus is the recreation of Egyptian bread by Seamus Blackley (creator of the XBox!?!) … Continue reading The History Thread Gets That (Egyptian) Bread
A Christmas Movie Christmas follows two sisters who wake up in a Christmas movie. The film wants to parody Hallmark films the way Isn’t It Romantic parodied romcoms. However, it plays things too safe. The sisters are classic ingenues, lacking … Continue reading Movie Recap: A Christmas Movie Christmas (2019)
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. Can you answer these trivia questions about geography which all intersect on this grid … Continue reading Triviacados: Tuesday, December 1, 2020
I sit here on the edge of a Day Of Thanks (I say from the past!). I vacillate between bewilderment in a sense at what I feel I somewhat fell into, and an acknowledgement I haven’t always lived up to … Continue reading The Tuesday PT Searches For Meaning
NPR does a Tiny Desk concert thing that I enjoy. This is one of my favorites, a group I wasn’t familiar with before one Tiny Desk wormhole: New Orleans’ Tank & the Bangas. But there are a lot of great … Continue reading The Tiny Desk Night Thread (11/30)
Hi All, This is the space to talk about your cleaning projects, ask for advice, brag about your successes, commiserate about all the work there is to do. How are y’all doing? Optional Topic: Holidays. Normally this time of year, the … Continue reading Avocado Cleaning Thread Cleans Up the Leftovers
Here are today’s contestants: Ben!, an accountant, whose wife dealt out 52 things she loves about him; Tracy, a college administrator, spent time at a tiger reserve in India; and Ryan, a legal technology professional, likes escape rooms. Ryan is … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Mon., Nov. 30
Vinland Saga (ヴィンランド・サガ) is an ongoing series started in 2005 by Makoto Yukimura (author of Planetes). Synopsis Broadly, Thorfinn is a young boy in Iceland at the turn of the 11th century with dreams of being a great viking warrior … Continue reading Manga Worth Reading: Vinland Saga
Happy Monday, Avocado players! We’re just about in December, i.e. Awards Season. We’ll soon be starting our own awards shows for the best – and the worst – of 2020’s pop culture. But thinking about them, I had a thought: … Continue reading Weekly Games Thread Wants to Give It Up to the Niche
Thanksgiving is behind us, the weather has turned, and it’s time to warm the cockles of our hearts. We’ve already covered Spring & Summer drinks, and now it’s time to give us your best Autumn & Winter Drinks for the … Continue reading Recipe Exchange: Autumn & Winter Drinks
Synopsis Homer enters a mid-life crisis after realizing he’s exactly half as old as the life expectancy for the average American male. “I’ve wasted half my life,” he laments, feeling he has done nothing of worth. “Half my life gone … Continue reading The Simpsons S10E2: The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace
The Trails series is an interesting one to try to write about. Doubly so when trying to go game by game. Its overall structure means that the arcs are really sets of games within the overall series. Many times games … Continue reading Silver Will, Golden Wings-Trails in the Sky SC Review/Retrospective
Spoilers for Bioshock abound! Version played: 2016 remaster in the Bioshock Collection on PS4. All screenshots below from my own playthrough. I’ve never been a great lover of first person shooters. While I was aware of the prominence of Halo … Continue reading Late to the Party: Bioshock
There was a lot of slots for upcoming open threads. I signed up for a bunch of them. As a punishment to the site at large for forcing me to participate, every open thread I signed up for is going … Continue reading The November 30 Day Thread Is The Beginning of Sheltie’s Reign of Terror
With the conclusion of our 30 Days of TV Challenge today, we’re getting ready to move onto the next phase ! We’ve had a lot of fun running the last couple of these with the comic book challenge, Disney, films, … Continue reading 30 Days Of TV Challenge: Epilogue
As we hit the final day of our 30 day TV challenge, we want to know how you primarily watch TV and your history with it. There was, once upon a time, a period when the majority of the country … Continue reading 30 Day TV Challenge Day 30: How You Mostly Watch TV
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: 1986
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: For example: If you are given Voolf, the answer is Virginia Woolf. The … Continue reading Triviacados: Monday, November 30, 2020
Sorry, I got nothing witty today. It’s late, and I’m trying to set up my new Harmony hub, so…this is what you get, sadly. Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is In a Rush
Welcome back to your monthly report of game news compiled as much as possible into one convenient ad-free place, so you don’t have to worry about the pesky cracks that some info tends to fall through at most major publications! … Continue reading Game News Roundup: November 2020
