Ultimate Timewaster?
If you play Civilization IV for three months, your next novel will probably be late — it happened to Iain M. Banks.
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.”
Catwoman: Silicon-Injected
In 2001, Catwoman was everything I ever wanted in a comic. I admit I was a sucker for her new look. A woman’s stompy black boots are her pride and Catwoman’s boots were stompy, black and flat after years of thigh high Pretty Woman stilettos. Not to mention […]
Hip-Hop Videogame
Is there really such a thing as a hip-hop videogame? Watch this convincing video to judge for yourself. A neat mix of arcade culture and hip-hop. (Keith Schofield also made a pretty awesome pi-related video).
Cultural Appropriation
Naomi Novik makes a stand: “I would rather take my characters to China and Istanbul and Africa and make mistakes and get corrected for them than confine myself to the safe Western European sandbox and pretend the problem doesn’t exist.” Her next Temeraire book is set in Africa, […]
Calm Guidelines
How to write a female character in comics in 8 steps, from Girls Read Comics: #6 says ‘”I hit boys!” is not a strong feminist statement.’
Inevitable Decay
Season 2 slump? Abigail Nussbaum says Lost and Battlestar Galactica had nowhere to go: “they have a story, and they don’t know how to handle its ending.”
The Cultural Gutter 