“If it wasn’t them, they’d be playing their song”
Stephen Colbert talks about Daft Punk, among other things, on the Paul Mercurio Show: “Well, I’m beginning to see why they don’t do TV.”
Guttersnipe
Just a critter in the Gutter.
RIP, Haji
Actress and burlesque performer, Haji, has died. Gutter readers might remember her best as Rosie in Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! LA Weekly and the CBC have obituaries. Here’s a probably NSFW video tribute to her work in Meyer’s films and video of her tribute to Faster, […]
Two Thoughtful Pieces on Breaking Bad
At The AV Club, Stephen Bowie makes, “The Case Against Breaking Bad,” while at The New York Times, A.O. Scott examines how <i>Breaking Bad</i>’s Walter White “found his inner sociopath.” and the beloved antiheroes of television’s current Golden Age.
RIP, Karen Black
Actress Karen Black has died. She’s best known to genre fans for her work in Trilogy Of Terror, but she also starred in Burnt Offerings, Airport 1975, Nashville, and Five Easy Pieces. The Vault of Horror remembers Black. The LA Times and New York Times have obituaries. And here […]
The Philosophy of Hayao Miyazaki
A five page comic illustrating Hayao Miyazaki’s thoughts on good, evil and heroism. (Thanks, Paul!)
Plague Inc.
At the Center for Disease Control’s Public Health Matters blog, Ali S. Khan talks to James Vaughan about his app, Plague Inc. “Within the game, players select a pathogen and strategize how to evolve symptoms, transmit the disease, and counter actions taken by world governments and scientists. With […]
The Cultural Gutter 