The daily open thread which operates between 11 PM and 11 AM where you can talk about whatever besides politics and Minions
Gary Burgoff, who played Radar O’Reilly, was born on this day in 1943. Stay home, wash your hands, post cat pictures, be excellent to each other. Continue reading The Emergency Night Thread of Radar O’Reilly (5/24)
The Shining was released on May 23, 1980. The horror classic stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, and Scatman Crothers. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Jack Torrance moves his family to Colorado in an attempt to repair his relationship with … Continue reading The Shining Night Thread
Today is Mr. T’s birthday. Mr. T starred as B.A. Baracus in A-Team. Continue reading The Night Thread Pities the Fool (5/21)
Today is the iconic Grace Jones’s birthday so once again I am doing an Open Thread dedicated to her. Grace Jones is a Jamaican born singer, songwriter, lyricist, supermodel, record producer, and actress. Continue reading GRACE JONES Night Thread (5/19)
Today is Tina Fey’s birthday. Fey starred in 30 Rock as Liz Lemon. Continue reading Liz Lemon Night Thread (5/18)
Today is David Boreanaz’s birthday. He starred as Seeley Booth on Bones. I had trouble deciding between Bones and Angel to highlight, but decided to go with the series that aired the longest. Bones was on from 2005-2017. Boreanaz is known as one of the most consistent television … Continue reading Bones! Night Thread (5/16)
Today is Russell Hornsby’s birthday. I first remember seeing and liking him as Hank Griffin on Grimm, a sci-fi series that I loved. Have a great night! (and day!) Continue reading The Night Thread Is Grimm (5/15)
With just a few hours of the day left, today is still David Byrne’s birthday. Happy birthday to 1/4 of the band Talking Heads and a major figurehead of the modern Alternative and Indie scene. Continue reading The Night Thread Remains in Light
Sunday Night Theatre was a series of live plays broadcast on BBC television between 1950 and 1959, and was one of the first shows for which the creator of Quatermass, Nigel Kneale, wrote. This included a controversial (for the time) … Continue reading The Abominable Snowman Night Thread (May 13)
Well, not really. But had she mastered biological immortality, Florence Nightingale would turn 200 today. I guess she was born a few generations too early for that. Something I have in common with her! While well-known among laypeople for her … Continue reading The Nightingale Thread Turns 200
Okay, maybe not the Night Thread, but Harold Williams did. Or rather, he was said to have spoken “more than 58 languages”. I’ll spare you a big wall of text. If you really want, you can read up his bio … Continue reading The Night Thread Speaks 60-ish Languages
On May 10th 1970, the Boston Bruins were leading the St. Louis Blues 3 games to 0 in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup Finals series. Game 4 had gone into overtime with the score tied 3-3. A mere 40 seconds into … Continue reading The Flight of Bobby Orr Night Thread
Today is my birthday! I came up with 30 different ideas for my birthday night thread, discarded them all, and finally settled on Tintin: Explorers on the Moon because 1) space is awesome, 2) Tintin is awesome, and 3) I … Continue reading The Night Thread Explores The Moon (May 9)
The Pobiti Kamani – the “Stones beaten into the ground” – is a natural “Fossil Forest” and one of the few true deserts in Europe. In the region of Varna in Bulgaria, along an eight kilometre strip of the coastline … Continue reading The Pobiti Kamani Night Thread
Cool Hand Luke is a movie about an unlikely hero and the high cost of defying authority. It is also a movie about a man who eats 50 eggs in one hour. What’s that you say? Well, Luke can and … Continue reading The Night Thread Can Eat 50 Eggs (5/7)
This night thread is dedicated to my favourite member of the commercial tugging vehicle Nostromo’s crew: navigator Joan Lambert. Here she is doing the most natural thing imaginable when considering being trapped on board the ship with the alien: freaking … Continue reading The Lambert Night Thread (May 6)
Hello Ma’am. You’re lookin’ all sorts of good! Now we’re just a couple oil men in from Dallas, and we’re itchin’ like a hound to give you something that you want. Hells yeah! We want to fill you up, if’n … Continue reading Just a Couple Oil Men Night Thread (May 5)
Dengar is a Bounty Hunter who is featured in The Empire Strikes Back. Dengar was played by actor Morris Bush. Dengar holds a special place in my group of friends from back home. On the car ride home from Strongsville, … Continue reading Dengar Night Thread
In what was supposed to be playing in Broadway already, the musical Six is a musical that originated from two Cambridge students. The musical follows the six wives of Henry VIII as they decide to form a band together and … Continue reading The Night Thread Doesn’t Need a King’s Love
Today is Ellie Kenner’s birthday. Have an awesome night! Continue reading The Night Thread is Unbreakable (5/2)
