RIP, Phyllis Diller
Comedian Phyllis Diller has died. The LA Times has an obituary. Diller discusses crashing the all-male Friar’s Club. Female comedians pay tribute to her. Funny or Die shares their 10 favorite jokes by Phyllis Diller.
“This is how you destroy something beautiful”
N.K. Jemisin is offering a previously published story online for free. Find out why, here. “All my pleasure and pride at having been published in [Weird Tales] is gone. Goes without saying that I won’t be submitting there again, ever, but at this point I’m ashamed to have […]
RIP, Tony Scott
Director Tony Scott has died. The Guardian has an obituary. Here, Scott talks about directing and what he loves about it.
Jonathan Frid and Seizure.
“There was a Jonathan Frid drought in those days, and the man himself had just led me to an oasis. Not only was a Frid film on video for the first time, it was a movie I had never seen. Seizure was legendary among Dark Shadows fans. Although […]
Hating Skyler White
Amanda Marcotte examines the hatred of Breaking Bad‘s Skyler White: “The anti-Skyler brigade seems to be part of a larger trend of fans loathing wives on television—especially if they’re married to anti-heroes.” And Tod VanDerWeff talks about the same in reviewing an episode of The Sopranos for The […]
Interview with Tim Gunn
One hour 28 minutes with Project: Runway‘s Tim Gunn at Parsons New School of Design in 2008.
The Cultural Gutter 