Best Korean Movies of 2013
At Modern Korean Cinema, Pierce Conran shares his list of top ten Korean movies in 2013.
Operation Scraping Netflix’s Data
“This database probing told me three things: 1) Netflix had an absurdly large number of genres, an order of magnitude or two more than I had thought, 2) it was organized in a way that I didn’t understand, and 3) there was no way I could go through […]
Interview with George Lazenby
The guys at The Daily Grindhouse interview with George Lazenby, star of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and The Man from Hong Kong, aka, Dragon Flies.
“What Monkeys Eat: A Few Thoughts about Pop Culture Writing”
Linda Holmes shares some thoughts about writing about pop culture: “Sometimes funny stories are just funny stories, and funny writing about silly things is just funny writing about silly things. But that’s not the whole story.”
“The Fallen Astronaut”
At Slate, Corey S. Powell and Laure Gwen Shapiro write about a small sculpture placed on the moon by astronaut David Scott in 1971.
“Creepypasta and the Contours of Modern Fear”
At Aeon Magazine, Will Wiles considers creepypasta, an anonymous group effort to create dark urban legend, “Indeed, this might be what creepypasta aspires to be: urban legend, dark social memes with just enough familiarity to give a frisson of awful possibility. Much of it is spread with little […]
The Cultural Gutter 