Wil Wheaton Loves You
“It doesn’t mean that Wil Wheaton doesn’t love you”: Jonathan Coulton explains a few things about Wil Wheaton to Wil Wheaton and the fans at PAX 2009–to the tune of “Code Monkey.”
Carol
Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
“Why Anti-Telepathy Helmets Do Not Work”
Lady, That’s My Skull has fragments from a manifesto written by a disgruntled smoking scientist at a secret base in Nevada: “Why Anti-Telepathy Helmets Do Not Work.”
In Space No One Can Hear You Explode
On the physics of space battles looks at the balance between realism in space battles (at least what we can estimate that would be) and fun stories.
Market Forces Unleashed in Iron Man 2
It’s the invisible hand of the market– Tony Stark privatizes world peace and runs into a little competition from Mickey Rourke’s Ivan Vanko / Whiplash in the trailer for Iron Man 2.
Holiday Link Round Up
2 holiday classics suitable for Xmas or the Solstice (here, here and wth here) and a couple of advent calendars sans the stale chocolate (here and here).
The Comics Journal, Online
The Comics Journal goes fully online, and give you a brief history of comics criticism
The Cultural Gutter 