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 (Halloween 2017)
The Brood (1979) Happy Halloween! I’m glad to start off this week’s write-up with David Cronenberg’s The Brood because, man, I love this movie. I’ve seen it a couple times before and when it comes to directors who have a … Continue reading TCM Underground: The Brood (1979) and Repulsion (1965)
Welcome to my weekly discussion of the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio. I’m proceeding mostly chronologically. The title comes from a quote from Walt, “I never called my work an ‘art’ It’s part of show business, the business … Continue reading Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Peter Pan
I trust we’re all still a-buzz with yesterday’s big news regarding the first indictments from the Muller investigation, so while we continue to enjoy something that almost — dare I say it — feels like a victory, I also want … Continue reading Tuesday Politics Thread Turns Itself In
10/30/2017 – South Africa: House on Willow Street (2016) Directed by Alastair Orr The cinema of South Africa dates back to The Great Kimberly Diamond Robbery in 1911, only a year after the country achieved some semblance of independence from … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – South Africa: House on Willow Street
This is part one in an ongoing series of short fiction. Let it be known that this is a tale of most grievous madness, horror, and cruelty to the human mind and heart. A love story most tragic and unsettling, as … Continue reading At the Mountains of Man-Ass, Part I
Featured podcasts this week are Love & Radio, Embedded, Heavyweight, Switchblade Sisters, and Who Shot Ya. Continue reading Pod People: October 10/30/17
This is going up a day early, because the weather is miserable here and it promises to be less so tomorrow. So I am here now. Let’s do this. We are on The Avocado now! We are Doing It Live. … Continue reading Fashion Club: 10/30
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) 1. Jigsaw 2. Boo! 2 3. Geostorm 4. Happy Death Day 5. Blade Runner 2049 Today is your reminder that the first Saw movie came out in 2004, when today’s thrill-seeking teens … Continue reading Box Office: October 27-29, 2017
There are suspicious people about, with violence on their minds. Two weeks later, those same people are shining with pure innocence, simply trying to root out the schemers in their midst. Yes, it’s the game of trickery, deception, and confusion. … Continue reading The Werewolf Den
Alright, folks, this is your open thread for the soft rollout of the new Avocado! All OT posts will be here today, and the open thread over on Disqus will be closed with just a link to this in the … Continue reading The Soft Rollout Open Thread
Hi everyone. Welcome back to another edition of Tailgate Talk. Each week I recap some of the major games from the week before and preview the games next week. Feel free to talk about the games, off season antics, seasons … Continue reading Tailgate Talk: Week Eight
10/29/2017 – M. Night Shyamalan: Split (2017) Directed by M. Night Shyamalan What can I say, I called an audible. Scroll enough and you’ll find a review of Baskin, but I felt this needed to be spotlighted considering its length … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – M. Night Shyamalan: Split
Zephania Video, a captain of the King’s navy, and Goody Admirax, a lowly scullery maid, were in love. Having the whole town know took a lot of the pressure off, but for the sake of propriety, they felt they should … Continue reading Werewolves 43: Witch Trials – Day Four
I never got that into comic books as a kid. It took ’90s indie comics like Eightball and Hate for me to work my way back to superheroes. The comics of my youth were simplistic, and one of the clumsiest storytelling … Continue reading Star Trek: Discovery S1E7: Magic To Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
The idea that justice in Westerns can only be achieved through violence is one that is supported by all of the Westerns that we’ve watched in class. This doesn’t mean that George Stevens, John Ford, and Clint Eastwood support the … Continue reading Justice in Westerns
Immediately after a “Homer is a bumbling dad to Lisa” story, we get a “Homer is a bumbling dad to Bart” one! Structurally, there are a few similarities – Act One is about Homer coming to realise he’s a bad … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Three, Episode Nine, “Saturdays Of Thunder”
Fleetwood Mac is really 4 or 5 different, only tangentially related bands. Starting as a spinoff project from John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers as a vehicle for Peter Green to continue his blues work, they suffered through an unusual number of lineup … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Fleetwood Mac
What’s Halloween without monsters? What are scary movies without monsters? Here are five monsters I consider to be among the best in Movie and Tv history. (In no particular order) 1. You Know him you love him! Godzilla is one … Continue reading The Monster Thread Of Monsters
When: Sunday Nov. 12, 2017 4pm Where: Three’s Brewing 333 Douglas St, Brooklyn https://www.threesbrewing.com/at-threes/ Full bar and decent menu. You don’t have to be a drinker, stop in for a chat and a bite to eat! There is karaoke … Continue reading NYC / Tristate Meetup!
Hot Dog! My first WordPress/Avocado discussion post and it’s Sunday again and time to eat! To kick off the food thread on the new site here’s my original header from March 20, 2016- I’m going to give it a go … Continue reading Sunday Food Thread
