Tags

2,133 entries, in 86 pages    per page

Tag(s):

Separate tags with commas. Tags may contain more than one word.

Date range:

|<Prev 
123456789101112131415

Sunday Open Thread

Sun, May 27, 2012 at 3:42 pm PDT

A no-frills open thread for a Sunday afternoon...

Open Thread

Overnight Open Thread

Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:11 pm PDT

We did everything just the way grownups would have. Why didn't it work? -- Piggy, "Lord of the Flies"

Open Thread, Quote, Golding, Lord of the Flies

Overnight Open Thread

Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:14 pm PDT

There's always free cheddar in a mousetrap, baby It's a deal, it's a deal -- Tom Waits, "God's Away On Business"

Open Thread, Quote, Tom Waits

Friday Afternoon Open

Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:39 pm PDT

Here's a no-frills open thread, with a few links to articles worth reading. Me Me Me Me Me: CNN Provides a Platform for a Vile Voice of the Tea Party Retracting 'Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory' | This American Life The Bin Laden Plot to Kill President Obama Invisible Children Co-Founder Detained: SDPD ...

Open Thread

Overnight Open Thread

Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:04 pm PST

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. -- Arthur Miller

Open Thread, Quote, Miller

Academy Awards Open

Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:06 pm PST

Joe Seer / Shutterstock Here's an open thread for dishing about the Oscars, or whatever else you feel like tossing out there into cyberspace...

Academy Awards, Open Thread, Oscar

Overnight Open Thread

Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:08 pm PST

Once again the forces of virtue have triumphed over the forces of rottenness. -- Maxwell Smart

Open Thread, Quote, Smart

Valentine's Day Open

Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:45 pm PST

I have some non-blog activities to pursue, so here's a Tuesday afternoon open thread with something beautiful to look at:

Open Thread, Video, Vimeo, Short Film, Time Lapse, Milky Way

Overnight Open Thread

Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:43 pm PST

The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. -- Bill Hicks

Open Thread, Quote, Hicks

Wednesday Night Open

Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:37 pm PST

Here's one of those simple, no-frills open threads. Oh okay, I'll throw in a fun video: I shot a little video every day of 2011 on my Canon Powershot, then I edited it all down to a little over a second each. It's interesting to be able to look back ...

Open Thread

Overnight Open Thread

Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:01 pm PST

Tanna: What do you think will be the next obstacle the Earth people will put in our way? Eros: Well, as long as they can think - we'll have our problems. -- Plan 9 from Outer Space

Open Thread, Quote, Plan 9 From Outer Space

Overnight Open Thread

Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:30 pm PST

Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when ...

Open Thread, Quote, Martin Luther King

Overnight Open Thread

Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:46 pm PST

Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths: [Item List] -- Will Durant, Declaration of Interdependence

Open Thread, Quote, Durant

Overnight Open Thread

Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:51 pm PST

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? -- Carl Sagan ...

Open Thread, Quote, Sagan

Overnight Open Thread

Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:56 pm PST

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -- Kurt Vonnegut

Open Thread, Quote

Overnight Open Thread

Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 9:28 pm PST

Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ. -- Bart Simpson

Open Thread, Quote, Bart Simpson

Overnight Open Thread

Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:50 pm PST

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place. -- Xun Zi

Open Thread, Quote

Overnight Open Thread

Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:31 pm PST

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

Open Thread, Quote, Pynchon

Friday Night Open

Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 5:57 pm PST

Here we see an exemplary case of open registration, accompanied by an open thread. Reasons you should consider registering a free account at LGF: [Item List]

Open Thread, Registration

Overnight Open Thread

Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:15 pm PST

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

Open Thread, Quote, Pynchon

Pre-Debate Open Thread

Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:37 pm PST

There's going to be a big Herman Cain-shaped hole in tonight's "Mike Huckabee Presidential Forum" on Fox News. The debate just won't be the same without the 999 plan. I miss him already.

Debate, Open Thread, Herman Cain, Nostalgia, Heartbreak

Monday Night Open Registration

Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:09 pm PST

Here's a no-frills Monday night open thread, with open registration in case you feel the need to screed. Registering gives you the ability to post comments and your own LGF Pages, and a bunch of other nice features as well. See you in the deep end.

Open Thread, Registration

Overnight Open Thread

Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:23 pm PST

A buzzard took a monkey for a ride in the air The monkey thought that everything was on the square The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back But the monkey grabbed his neck and said — "Now listen, Jack..." "Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and fly ...

Open Thread, Quote, Nat King Cole

Overnight Open Thread

Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:07 pm PST

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. -- Richard Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"

Open Thread, Quote, Feynman

Overnight Open Thread

Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 8:43 pm PST

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. -- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens

Open Thread, Quote, Gaiman, Pratchett

|<Prev 
123456789101112131415