Just a critter in the Gutter.
Rudy Rucker doesn’t like watching the news too closely (” I only have the one life—must I spend all of it waiting for when it’s officially okay to be happy?”)… but what to think about instead? “Long live transfinite mountains, the hollow earth, time machines, fractal writing, aliens, […]
Sherwood Smith over at Book View Cafe has a great piece about why Austen is not romance (comparing her books to Heyer).
“The Death and Return of Superman,” acted out by many famous nerdy people. (Thanks, Mark!)
At Digital Femme Online, Cheryl Lynn thinks about Idie Okonkwo’s change from an afro to a pixie cut in Wolverine and the X-Men, and is sad that ” no other character is willing to address what is a glaring problem with this child in regards to her mutancy […]
In a lovely meditation, William Goss sees continuity between The Grey and Oslo, August 31st: “I found myself reminded of the great beauty that movies can have, the universal truths that they could capture, the emotions that – if we’re lucky – they will convey and elicit.”
Beth Watkins brings Hindi film disco to the Wall Street Journal’s blog (with plenty of links). “Disco might just be the pop music soul mate of Hindi films, though it’s not like Bollywood ever needs an excuse to bust out the skin-tight shiny costumes, the opulent sets or […]
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The Cultural Gutter 