Zombie Preparedness
The Center for Disease Control has some tips to help you survive a zombie apocalypse (or more prosaice emergency).
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.”
A Tyrannosaurus is in your Guest Center killing your ‘raptors.
Wolf Gnards explores the many ways a tyrannosaurus can get into a theme park guest center–or any building, really. We vote for “Those tiny arms have evolved over millennia to pick locks.”
Piracy’s Double-Edged Cutlass
The power of piracy and viral success of Go The Fuck To Sleep (a children’s book for adults): “Piracy, it seems, is what has driven the book’s real-world, money-making, flying-off-the-shelves success. The bootleg copy hasn’t replaced the actual artifact. It has only served as a sort of free […]
Breaking Down Borders in Gaming
The Border House is a gaming website dedicated to “breaking down borders in gaming” and analyze games from a feminist viewpoint. This month they have stories on “The Women of Mortal Kombat“; “102 Quadrillion Unique Male Character Variants, 0 Female Characters“; and Turning the Tabletop: A Look at […]
The 5 Stages of Star Wars Fandom
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance and Star Wars. (Thanks, B-Sol!)
The Great English Slaying
“A murder is somehow more quintessentially English when committed on the cobbles of a foggy East End alley. If there’s a silhouetted top hat, a rustle of crinoline and a scream cut short with straight razor, all the better.” The Guardian has more on “the Great English Slaying.”
The Cultural Gutter 