Two Interviews with Divine
Two interviews with Divine from a 1981 documentary and on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
Two Reviews
Malvasia Bianca on Legend of Korra (“But what’s interesting to me is the way that I experience removal of bending differently from death”) and Val’s Random Comments on Blue Mars (“It is special to me, partly because it is the first novel by Robinson I’ve read. The book […]
Vice Interviews ICP
“Ah shit, man, being a Juggalo is a hard thing. But at the same time, it’s the closest love you’re ever gonna have.” More from Jason Webber’s interview with Insane Clown Posse’s Shaggy 2 Dope here. (via Matt Staggs)
Biceps and Glasses
Move over Ryan Gosling, Beth Loves Bollywood has a gallery of filmi actors wearing spectacles and flashing their biceps.
“The Shy, Elusive Rape Particle”
“One of the unlovely things that has been happening in Anglophone SF/F … is the resurrection of unapologetic – nay, triumphant – misogyny beyond the already low bar in the genre. The churners of both grittygrotty ‘epic’ fantasy and post/cyberpunk dystopias are trying to pass rape-rife pornkitsch as […]
Prometheus, Netflix, and Le Guin’s Hypothesis
Abigail Nussbaum over at Asking the Wrong Questions examines why everyone hates Prometheus so much (including this great line “Shaw… seems more like Aliens‘s Burke than a Ripley”). Here’s Shamus Young at Twenty-Sided on The Slow Death of Netflix: “I have money to spend and movies I want […]
The Cultural Gutter 