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.”
“and somehow / giving to all her questions just one answer: / In you, who were a child once—in you.” –”Die Erwachsene / The Grown Up,” Rainer Maria Rilke trans. by Stephen Mitchell. Please don’t let Rilke scare you off. Jim McCann and Janet Lee’s Return of the […]
Tiger Beatdown has a poignant post about Betty Draper in Mad Men: “We wanted Betty to read The Feminine Mystique and get her mind blown and rise above; or, we wanted her to stay a victim, so we could relate to her better, or at least keep feeling […]
Inception in Real-Time. All the dreams played against one another and with editorial comments. (via Entertainment Weekly’s blog)
Crap Shoot reviews “the second most incredible Biblical game ever created, ever”: The You Testament. Ricard Cobbett writes: “[You] can’t get away from the fact that this is a religious game which lets you mind control Jesus Christ and make him punch people in the face.” Also, follow […]
Webcomic artist Brian MacLachlan has plotted out an outline to help aspiring web comics creators get going. He even answers, “Where do you get your ideas from?” Includes many references to indie and especially Canadian indie artists. (Thanks, Humash!)
In honor of Santa’s scary helper, Krampus, here’s “The Story of the Christmas Krampus” (as told with puppets) and footage from the 1919 film, “Aleta und Der Krampus.”
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