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.”
“Wanting to be a cooler, beer-drinking, girl-bedding kind of guy, I stopped playing D&D when I went to college. There was shame in them thar imaginary hills. So I shelved that yearning for fantasy heroics, which looked so weak and antisocial. I told myself, You don’t need D&D […]
A map of science fiction that looks suspiciously like a Lovecraftian horror. (Thanks, Monster Island Resort!)
Robots are replacing human tenors and divas. It is Robot Opera and the robot apocalypse is nigh!
Incredibox: Play the hipsters! In English or Francais!
Black Sun has the awesomeness of a complete album of Magma Taishi / Space Ambassador Magma! See the art and download it here. (via @AICNAnime)
B-Sol at the Vault of Horror writes about General Mills Monster cereals and eating what scares us.
Find t-shirts, mugs, totes and more at our new Guttermart location at Teepublic!
The Cultural Gutter 