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.”
LeVar Burton isn’ t the only bridge between Star Trek and the reading rainbow. Dan at Faust’s Fantastically Fantasmagoric Forum explains how a media tie-in novel, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Metamorphosis transformed him into a reader.
What is “Total Nowhere Emotion Expansion?” It’s a digital art exhibit on the back of a trailer in Australia. “Eight artists from five countries have mashed together snippets of online culture – chatrooms, Second Life, online dream journals, first person shooters and more – to make some interesting […]
FXGuy7 has video of a Haunted Mansion on the assembly floor. Here are two birdseye views (one, two) and a walkthrough.
Lord Byron talks trash about his literary rivals: “Southey and Turdsworth such renegado rascals.” (Thanks, Jen!)
You are interested in the future, because that is where you will live and you must decide what you will do to survive Plan 9. (Thanks, Eric, for the Plan 9 from Outer Space title quote).
Twitch has the trailer for The Clash / Bâỹ Rông, the new film from The Rebel stars Johnny Tri Nguyen and Veronica Ngo. This time, they have guns and sharp clothes. (via Kung Fu Cinema)
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