How Not To Be A Con Creeper
Andre at Black Nerd Comedy has some advice on how not to be a creeper at cons (and pretty much anywhere else) in his latest, “Black Nerd Rant.”
China Mieville Interviewed By A 12-Year-Old Boy
China Miéville is interviewed by Skelli Scar, who offers Miéville an excellent suggestion: “Lastly I have a suggestion for you, why not write a short story about what the Olympics would be like in Un Lun Dun?” “This is a startling and excellent idea. Immediately various sporting events […]
Chuck Jones on Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner and Porky Pig
The Chuck Jones Center for Creativity uploaded three videos of Chuck Jones drawing and discussing Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner, and Porky Pig. (And a Daffy Duck bonus video)
Scans of Man Gataro’s Art
Pages from comic artist/mangaka Man Gataro’s Jigoku Koshien / Battlefield Baseball, vol. 2 at The Joseph Luster Report.
The Female Reader
At Bookslut, Jenny McPhee writes about female readers, the imagined female reader and the anxiety of male authors: “The [contemporary male novelists] fear the female reader is no longer willing to interpret rampant misogyny as searing self-portraits of mangled masculinity, but rather as just more misogyny and who […]
World War I and Ulmer’s The Black Cat
“Did we not both die here in Marmorus 15 years ago? Are we any the less victims of the war than those whose bodies were torn asunder? Are we not both the living dead?” The Nitrate Diva writes about World War I and Edgar Ulmer’s 1934 film, The […]
The Cultural Gutter 