“The Most Impressive Costumes from Star Trek: TNG’s First Three Seasons”
io9 has Charlie Jane Anders’ list of amazing costumes from Star Trek: The Next Generation’s first three seasons.
Mordor on the Western Front
At the New York Times, Joseph Loconte discusses “How J. R. R. Tolkien found Mordor on the Western Front.”
Farewell, The Toast! We’ll miss you.
It’s the last day at The Toast and we’re going to miss them. Make sure to read all their things! (And if this is your first visit to The Toast, don’t worry, they’re keeping up all their pieces and all their comments. The comments are worth your while).
Better Left Unsaid: the Unspoken and the Unexplained in Hush
As an English student and aspiring Clive Barker, no feedback made me want to shove things in places more than that hoary old chestnut “show, don’t tell.” It was glib, it was unspecific, and worst of all, it was annoyingly valid. So, yay, no one has to say […]
Read Weird Tales Now!
Open Culture has issues of Weird Tales for your reading pleasure! “Debuting in 1923, Weird Tales, writes The Pulp Magazines Project, provided “a venue for fiction, poetry and non-fiction on topics ranging from ghost stories to alien invasions to the occult.” The magazine introduced its readers to past masters […]
“On The Death of James Rhodes–War Machine”
Thaddeus Howze writes about the death of superhero James Rhodes/War Machine. “James Rhodes as a character, was part of the iconic roster of characters who guided my choices growing up, a part of the ideals I aspired to being a child of the late 70s when his character […]
The Cultural Gutter 