Sex and SF/F
Kate Elliott asks, “How much sex is too much sex in your science fiction and fantasy?” (Thanks, James!)
Adventure Time on NPR
NPR’s Monkey See blog shares a look at Adventure Time. “Adventure Time insists on emotional honesty.” (via @profmdwhite)
Shenanigans
Recent shenanigans The Cultural Gutter has been involved in: The lost Drive-In Mob Movie S.P.E.C.T.R.E. on Monster Island; a transcript of the Shaitani Dracula tweetalong organized by The Mysterious Order of the Skeleton Suit; and the ongoing Twitter game/story, “Tonight On Mad Men.”
Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Claude Van Damme
At Vern Reviews The Films Of Cinema, Outlaw Vern offers “one Seagalologist’s perspective on the ‘vulgar auteurism’ debate”: “The practitioners are trying to bring recognition to artists who they think are marginalized, but they’re accidentally creating a ranking of ‘vulgar auteur’ beneath ‘actual auteur.’ And that also shines […]
“Essential Epic Fantasies: Wrap-Up”
Pornokitsch finishes determining essential epic fantasy, with statistics, graphs and lists of their selections. Nice to see Homer in there.
“We a drunkass pair of meta motherfuckers right now.”
David Simon shares the best deleted scene from the fifth season of The Wire. (via @pornokitsch)
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