No One Can Stop Machete
Austin 360 reports on a letter-writing campaign to deny Robert Rodriguez’ Machete Texas state incentive funding.
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.”
Commodification is Inevitable
Joe Steckart has an interesting response to Patton Oswalt’s “Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die“: “Reading Watchmen does not make you cool. Being able to talk about it intelligently does. The counterculture, the ineffable ‘cool,’ will always be manifesting itself in something. Right now it’s manifesting at least […]
Catan Horror
Let’s say you own both Settlers of Catan and Arkham Horror and feel like something is missing from each… Here’s how you’d play both games in one combined mega-game!
5 Sci Fi Children’s Books
Kirk And Spock Are Friends and other science fiction children’s books…
Most Anticipated Asian Films of 2011
Wildgrounds breaks down their most anticipated films of 2011.
Twilight of the Geeks
Patton Oswalt wants to save geekery by destroying it: “In order to save pop culture future, we’ve got to make the present pop culture suck, at least for a little while.” It reminds me of Jim Munroe’s question at WisCon 2008: “Does it have to get boring before […]
The Cultural Gutter 