The Voice of Night Vale
The Daily Dot interviews Cecil Baldwin, the voice of the eerie podcast, Welcome To Night Vale.
“How Homestar Runner Changed Web Series For The Better”
At The AV Club, Todd VanDerWerff writes about the influence of Homestar Runner: “The stuff on Homestarrunner.com was really funny, and even if the site hasn’t been updated in years, its surprisingly elaborate mythology and characters still pop up in online discussions from time to time. It also […]
RIP, Tom Clancy
Author Tom Clancy has died. Clancy is best known for The Hunt for Red October and his Jack Ryan series, but he also worked on videogames like Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell. The New York Times has an obituary. Dean Takahashi remembers Clancy at Venture Beat and Lynn […]
Demanding Better Representation
At XOJane, Chaka Cumberbath demands better representation for Black girl nerds in geek culture: “We can be spunky. We can be vivacious. We can be complicated and beautiful and emotional and flawed and we might be all of those things or none of those things at all, but […]
An Oral History of Evil Dead II
“I think I can speak for all of us: We’d rather be doing slapstick comedy. But because we were so concerned, at the time, with getting our work into theaters, we thought: ‘Eh, horror films. That’s a good way in.’” More history of Evil Dead II at The […]
The Shrieking Horror of Castle Lemongrab
“Sometimes I tried to imitate the pleasant songs of the birds but was unable. Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again” (Frankenstein, 110). “He raised her and smiled with […]
The Cultural Gutter 