At Smart Bitches Trashy Books, Carrie S. has some thoughts about the depiction of rape in fiction and how George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road gets it right. “If ever a movie seemed tailor-made to include a rape scene, it’s this one, an R-rated movie with rape at […]
A side by side comparison of Michael Ploog’s storyboards and shots from John Carpenter’s The Thing.
John Reppion continues his discussion of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell at The Daily Grail, “pluck[ing] out some of the more easily disentangled fragments of folklore, magic, and the like from the book (and the show) and takes a closer look at them.” This time, he considers fairies […]
I’ve read plenty of good “first contact” stories, and a few great ones. A personal favorite, The Mote in God’s Eye, goes some distance to portraying the tragically insurmountable gulf that might appear when two very different species encounter one another. But no one has realized that gulf […]
Calvin Kasulke explains the role of object permanence–or the lack thereof–among wrestlers in the WWE.
A gallery of Rogan Brown’s handcut paper microbes and pathogens. (Thanks, Ceil!)
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The Cultural Gutter 