“Essential Epic Fantasies: Wrap-Up”
Pornokitsch finishes determining essential epic fantasy, with statistics, graphs and lists of their selections. Nice to see Homer in there.
“We a drunkass pair of meta motherfuckers right now.”
David Simon shares the best deleted scene from the fifth season of The Wire. (via @pornokitsch)
A 1998 Critique of the Game Industry Still Relevant Today
“In a column just as true today as it was at the time of its writing, this reprint from the February 1998 issue of Game Developer magazine by game designer J.C. Herz blasts the industry conservatism and the retreading of familiar ideas.” Read it at Gamasutra.
Raymond Chandler and The High Tower Apartments
The High Tower Apartments and Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Raymond Chandler’s The High Window.
RIP, Iain Banks
Writer Iain Banks has died. The Guardian has an obituary. Neil Gaiman remembers Banks and the BBC gathers remembrances. Here, Banks talks with University Lecturer in Creative Writing Derek Neale.
The First Church of Manos, Reformed
Manos: The Hands of Fate devotional art and a poll made by The Gutter’s own Comics Editor Carol.
The Cultural Gutter 