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.”
Quintin Smith at RockPaperShotgun talks to the CEO of the Goonfleet, the Mittani, about politics, metagame intrigue and failure cascades on Eve Online, the interstellar MMO. If you’re not interested in gamepolitik, there’s neat propaganda and space art.
Every April at the Gutter, the editors write about something outside their usual domains. This month Comics Editor Carol Borden writes about movies. ~~~ This is not even close to a full retrospective, because while Minoru Kawasaki doesn’t have a huge number of films, many of them are […]
Don Draper sits at a bar next to a man reading Frank O’Hara’s Meditations in an Emergency. He asks about the book and is blown off by the man who sees him as square. Fisherprof thinks about “What Frank O’Hara Tells Us about Don Draper.”
Movies with four or more Harry Potter wizards, or an illustration of how small the British film industry is. (Thanks, James!)
Stan Lee and Arnold Schwarzenegger have joined forces for, The Governator.
HBO offers a 15 minute preview of its new series Game of Thrones, based on the George R. R. Martin series. Given how long the series is so far, a 15 minute taste seems about right. And if that’s not enough, Gutter favorite Peter Dinklage talks about playing […]
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