My Borg Pony
Six of Seven says, “You will curry us.”
Guttersnipe
Just a critter in the Gutter.
Cuz No One Talks About It
Money! Scalzi gives advice, stirs up the pot: “when it comes to money — and specifically their own money — writers have as much sense as chimps on crack.”
The Mainstream Notices Us, Head Explodes
Forbes gets worried – World of Warcraft will create “offline political forces“. Charles Stross’ Halting State has a lot to say about this stuff, including a fun, opposing theory: we’ve never been contacted by aliens because they’re probably too addicted to some advanced MMO game to worry about […]
A Nasty Little Piece of Work, Just Perfect in Fact
It’s a game called “Blood Car! 2000! Delux!” and it’s just about everything the title says it is.
REPLICANT LIKE ME
The idea for this article occurred to me a few seconds into “Life is a Gamble,” track 10 on Marvin Gaye’s score for Ivan Dixon’s Trouble Man. The churning sax and bubbles of Moog rolled over me, and suddenly I was in Los Angeles, circa 2019. I pulled […]
Sympathy for the Yellow Peril
In this crazy racist 1930s Mystery Men comic, Chen Chang “embarks on a trail gutted with blood and sudden, horrible death, as he carries on his vendetta against the white race,” and dragon lady River Lily and I end up shouting, “Get him Black Lightning! Tramp down the white […]
The Cultural Gutter 