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.”
Fren Attic writes of growing up in a family of Scottish “proto-Trekkies”: “[T]he image that burned itself on to our retinas was the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise. …Only this time they were devoid of their dull, grey uniforms. Kirk was yellow, Spock blue, Scotty a shocking red. […]
In terms of architecture, what’s the #1 comic book city? Answering that question sounds like a job for The Architects’ Journal!
Zhang Yimou is remaking the Coen Bros. Blood Simple, or as it will be known from now on, The Stunning Case of the Three Gunshots. (It’s going to star Sun Honglei from Mongol).
Blair Butler ran into comics writer, Grant Morrison, at Meltdown Comics in L.A. Wanna look?
July is International Zine Month–make a zine in 24 hours, attend events in Glastonbury, Portland and Minneapolis, get cut’n’pastey!
“Geisha is Robot.” Geisha fight samurai, giant temples and lady tengu. Geisha also transform.
Find t-shirts, mugs, totes and more at our new Guttermart location at Teepublic!
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