The next installment of My Favorite Synth Mixes is Strngr and Destryur’s Night at the Grindhouse from NewRetroWave. This is a short mix at only 41 minutes but the songs will make you think you are on the run from … Continue reading Night at the Grindhouse Day Thread (09/26)

“Late Mediaeval avant-garde music” would perhaps seem to be an oxymoron. But there was a remarkable, if short-lived, musical style in the late middle ages that could quite reasonably be described as just that – a style that, like atonality, … Continue reading A More Subtle Day Thread

Happy autumn to folks in the northern hemisphere and happy spring to those in the southern hemisphere! Continue reading Equinox Day Thread

Do you? Probably something about Batman. Continue reading I Don’t Remember Why I Signed Up for the September 21 Day Thread

For most people, the ragtime genre is synonymous with the name Scott Joplin. Joplin was, of course, the undisputed master of the form, but he was far from its only major composer. Indeed, ragtime had an internal stylistic history of … Continue reading The Day Thread of Novelty Rags

Lawbreakers operating in and around the ocean were getting tired of Aquaman spoiling their capers. To level the playing field, the notorious Dr. Krill developed a surgical procedure that would grant a human being all of the powers of a … Continue reading The Human Flying Fish Heists the Day Thread

It’s World Hug a Slug Day, which coincidentally arrived just after a nice wet morning that encouraged many gastropod friends out from the damp underbrush to forage for food and say hello. Spanish, Dusky, and Green Soled – take a … Continue reading Another Sunday Slug Thread

Medical term cerumen, known to the plebs as earwax, excretion of a honey-like sticky substance (Mm, yum yum!) in the ear canal. It is an essential part of keeping your ears healthy. A mixture of dead skin and other bodily … Continue reading The Earwax Day Thread (September 17, 2022)

While the second album from K-pop superstar group BLACKPINK has been released today, I would like to talk about another musical group from South Korea. Jambinai formed in 2009 and released its self-titled EP in 2010. And 2012 saw the … Continue reading The Day Thread Splits the Différance

One more night / God, I’ve had to fight / To keep my line of sightOn what’s realOne more day / I fear I’ve lost my way / I don’t know how to sayWhat I feel [refrain]Someone better hurry, I’m … Continue reading One More Day Thread (One More Night)

Æthelflæd was the daughter of King Alfred the Great of England, the king who in the late 9th century defended that nation from conquest by a Viking army and promoted literacy and learning. Æthelflæd proved to be just as great … Continue reading Æþelflædes Dæg-þrǽd

Florence Beatrice Price was an American composer of the first half of the twentieth century, and was the first African-American woman to have her work played by a major symphony orchestra. Born Florence Smith in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1887, … Continue reading Florence Price Day Thread

I had a hard time deciding on September’s Open Thread Topic Theme. I decided to go with Favorite Synthwave Mixes. My friends and I like to share these mixes with each other. I normally listen to them while working or … Continue reading Dance With the Dead Day Thread (09/12)

Hello, I am a cat. I have a name but it is a secret. I enjoy sitting on laptop keyboards, climbing up the backs of couches, and trying to fit my whole body into shoes. I am fiercely protective of … Continue reading I am a Cat, Day Thread (September 11, 2022)

O’boy is THE Scandinavian chocolate milk powder that has been on the market since 1959 – “a favourite with children of all ages from northern Norway to southern Denmark.” So Nesquik for cold people, and without the depressing ethical complications … Continue reading The O’boy Day Thread! (Sept 10, 2022)

Don’t ask me why I was reading up on the plots of the Police Academy franchise, but I was surprised by this trivia about the final film, Mission to Moscow. Per Wikipedia: “The shooting of the film took place in … Continue reading Police Academy: Mission to Moscow Day Thread

Stay cool everyone, here’s the Day Thread. Take care of yourselves, everyone! Continue reading The Day Thread Wants You to be as Cool as this Kitten (September 8, 2022)

Hey y’all, I’m making a run to the defunct convenience store, White Hen Pantry. You need anything? White Hen runs were a staple of my childhood. Yes, we had 7-11s in my area, but the White Hen was closer, thus, … Continue reading The Day Thread Goes to White Hen

From September 1991 to April 1995, Adrian Edmondson and the much-missed Rik Mayall produced three series and a whole eighteen episodes of their insanely stupid, crude, and disgustingly brilliant comedy, Bottom. Edmondson plays alcoholic Eddie Hitler besides Mayall’s 40-year-old virgin … Continue reading The Bottom Day Thread (Sept 6, 2022)