Pet Cinematary watches Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Pet Cinematary watches Star Trek IV: The Voyage home and discusses the movie with filmmaker & screenwriter Dylan Pasture. Kirk! Spock! McCoy! Whales!
Guttersnipe
Just a critter in the Gutter.
“Saddam Goes To Hollywood”
At The Telegraph, Tim Lusher writes about Saddam Goes to Hollywood (2016), a documentary about the making of Clash of Loyalties (1981): “[A]ccording to a documentary to be aired tonight, one film, made 35 years ago in the Arabian desert, had a real tyrant at the helm: Saddam […]
All the Spare Ribs!
Open Culture has all 239 issues of Spare Rib. “Founded in ’72 by Marsha Rowe and Rosie Boycott (pictured below), and run as a collective, the magazine featured a ‘breadth of voices.’ Early issues “involved big-name contributors including Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Margaret Drabble and Alice Walker, but […]
Dungeons and Dragons’ Forbidden Realms
DM David writes about “The Dungeons & Dragons spells Gary Gygax never meant for players.” “Dungeons & Dragons first supplement, Greyhawk, raised the game’s highest level spells from 6th level to 9th. None of Gary Gygax’s players had reached the level required to cast the new spells. Tim […]
“Tips For The Traveling Writer”
Our friends at Pornokitsch have tips for the traveling writer from author Gail Carriger! “I started attending conventions as a fangirl long before I was a professional writer. I knew what to expect and when I got my first Guest of Honor invitation I was over the moon. […]
“Catch The Throne: Hip Hop Royalty, Metal Masters and Reggaeton Royalty Unite”
You can listen to songs about Game Of Thrones by Talib Kweli, Common, Method Man, Snoop Dogg, Kilo Kish, Yandel, Estelle, Daddy Yankee, Anthrax, Mastodon and many more on HBO’s Mix Tape II: Game of Thrones on Soundcloud. (Thanks, Alisdair!)
The Cultural Gutter 