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.”
Friends, I wasn’t always the superhero-loving comics reader you see before you. I underwent a tribulation, a trial of faith, wandering in a wilderness without capes. My resistance to superheros and the Justice League of America in particular stemmed from one root: The SuperFriends. I can’t, in general, […]
Hey, Freddy and Jason, Fewdio want to take horror back: “All the members of Fewdio felt that the term “horror” had been hijacked by gore hounds and slasher fanatics. There’s nothing wrong with those two subgenres, not by a longshot, but they are subgenres. People hear horror nowadays […]
National Geographic reveals the secret eating habits of sperm whales in a series of 5 photos by Tony Wu. Okay, it’s no secret they eat giant squid, but National Geographic has pictures!
Giles Turnball charts the names 4 children, British and American, use for various Lego pieces. (He also includes the Lego company’s names for them). (via Neatorama).
Klenginem lays down Eminem’s “Without Me” in the original Klingon, “Suvwl’pu’ qan tu’lu’be.”
Everybody knows what you call a group of crows (hint: a murder) and other species of wildlife, but what about supernatural entities?
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