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Guttersnipe

Just a critter in the Gutter.

Tabletop Gaming

From the personal experience – “a person who knows you, and your gaming group well, is carefully structuring an experience for your pleasure” – to the impersonal: “there are no in-game rewards, in an MMO, for anything other than the level grind.” Wouldn’t you prefer the first? And […]

No Thanks, I’ve Had Enough

There’s lots to enjoy about romance novels.  The arc of character development.  The layered emotional content.  The rare and welcome sense of success (otherwise known as the happy ending).  A good romance novel is a singular pleasure.  A bad one, on the other hand, can be excruciating. 

100 + 100 + 100 = 850

When I first took the screen beat at The Cultural Gutter, I vowed never to do a list article. But promises, like Corningware, are made to be broken.   The London Times recently released a new list of the top 100 films of all time. I know, I […]