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Today is National Punctuation Day in the USA. Founded by some guy named Jeff Rubin in 2004, the day celebrates the use of periods, commas, colons, semicolons, question marks, exclamation points, hyphens, dashes, slashes, brackets, parentheses, braces, quotation marks, apostrophes … Continue reading The September 24 Day Thread Salutes National Punctuation Day
September 23rd is Key’s birthday, so this day thread is for him! In addition to being a member of SHINee, Key is an incredible solo artist, dancer, actor, and just an awesome person with great style. He’s dramatic, and funny, … Continue reading The 9/23 Key Day Thread
Happy equinox! The day and night are roughly equal today. Venus is at its brightest tonight, and the Full Harvest Moon is coming up on September 26th. The darkness descends on the north. Continue reading September Equinox Day Thread
Fall is here. I’m not the biggest fan of fall. Lower temperatures, more clothing, less daylight… Here is the rum ham. Do not desert the rum ham, as you will regret it. Enjoy. Continue reading The Rum Ham September 21, 2026 Day Thread
Bom dia, boa tarde, e boa noite, meus ‘cados! Growing up, punk always had a certain familiarity and exoticism. My parents were big into the punk scene in the 70s and 80s, both local (Minneapolis) and global. The raw energy, … Continue reading The Day Thread Visits the São Paulo Punks of “Viva Viva!”
She’s not angry, she’s just disappointed. Continue reading Emergency Roo Day Thread (Saturday 19 September, 2026)
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of R.E.M.’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) #6: Accelerate. A return to form late in their career. One of their hardest rocking records. BEST SONGS: … Continue reading The Day Thread Ranks R.E.M.’s Albums: #6
Hello, and welcome to what will become another series of headers I only manage to return to sporadically: counting down the world’s largest lakes. We begin, already, with controversy, as not everyone considers the Caspian Sea to be a lake … Continue reading The Day Thread of the Caspian Sea
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of R.E.M.’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) #9: New Adventures In Hi-Fi. This record has some of R.E.M.’s greatest work. The only issue I have … Continue reading The Day Thread Ranks R.E.M.’s Albums: #9
“Magic” is the title track for Monsta X’s new EP, The Phase. It came out last Friday. I was really looking forward to having a 3 day weekend to enjoy their comeback, but instead I had emergency surgery. So, I … Continue reading Magic Day Thread
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of R.E.M.’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) #10: Up. Again, this is a divisive album. But I love it, and so does Bill Berry, who … Continue reading The Day Thread Ranks R.E.M.’s Albums: #10
September 13th is Yeonjun’s birthday, so this day thread is for him! I’m a new Yeonjun fan, but I have fallen hard and fast. I was first captivated when I saw how he connected with the audience during one of … Continue reading The 9/13 Yeonjun Day Thread
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of R.E.M.’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) #12: Out Of Time. I know I’ll get feedback for this choice (Country Feedback?), but they tried a … Continue reading The Day Thread Ranks R.E.M.’s Albums: #12
Didn’t want to ignore it, so, I’ll just say a brief piece. Admittedly, I feel a lot of mixed emotions when September 11 rolls around and I’m out of the country on vacation. I don’t think it’s a moral failing … Continue reading September 11, 2026 Day Thread
From nationaltoday.com: “National TV Dinner Day celebrates the frozen meal in a segmented tray — invented by Swanson & Sons in 1954 after a miscalculation left 260 tons of unsold Thanksgiving turkey sitting in refrigerated rail cars — a marketing … Continue reading The September 10 Day Thread Celebrates TV Dinners
This is part of a series of mini-reviews of R.E.M.’s studio albums, ranked worst to best. (Don’t worry; I’ll keep them short.) #13: Reveal. There aren’t a lot of “classics” on this record, but it has a lovely feel. A … Continue reading The Day Thread Ranks R.E.M.’s Albums: #13
It’s been a few months since I made an entry in my sporadic series on great public squares, so I wanted to go local for this one. Berczy Park is a small 0.4 hectare plaza and green space located behind … Continue reading The Day Thread Visits Berczy Park
September 7th is EJ’s birthday, so this Day Thread is for him! EJ (Euijoo) is an incredible singer, dancer, rapper, actor, and he’s &TEAM’s adorable, goofy, wonderful, beautiful, kind, sweet, thoughtful leader! With EJ leading &TEAM I never have to … Continue reading The 9/7 Happy Euijoo Day Thread
Hello! Today I wanted to talk about bridges…with restaurants on top! Now you’ve all heard about buildings with restaurants, but these are a whole other thing entirely. So they’re pretty self-explanatory, and there are more around the world than I … Continue reading The September 6 Bridges With Restaurants Day Thread
I intended to make this a brief meditation on the glories of dark humor, citing as an example a joke I wrote decades ago but improved only last week. I thought I could walk through the process of elevating an … Continue reading The Day Thread of Forcing Oneself to Go Nowhere Slowly
I have gotten locked in a surprising number of bathrooms, not least my own bathroom, because the inside doorknob likes to fall off; for this reason, I never fully close my bathroom door, leading to fun surprises like one of … Continue reading The Day Thread of Bathrooms I Have Gotten Locked In (9/4/26)
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