Half-Life 3
“What’s Up with Half-Life 3?” Insofar as there are any answers, the Wertzone provides a nice overview.
Looking at Lavinia
Torque Control has started a series of Le Guin’s Lavinia.
Cover Art Followup
Sherwood Smith over at Book View Cafe has a fun followup on the matter of cover art brought up by Jim C Hines recently.
Breaking Point
“[A]t the age of 41, at about 94 minutes into The Divide,” Drew McWeeny writes, “I reached a breaking point, and I realized that I am pretty much incapable of sitting through one more cheap, pointless, exploitative rape in a movie.”
Interview with Lynda Barry
Comic artist and novelist Lynda Barry is interviewed by Jennifer Smith at The Isthmus.
The Raid Trailer
Here’s an Indonesian trailer for The Raid, not that it matters because the titles are in English and asskickery is an universal language. (The Raid played at–and won the People’s Choice Award–at TIFF’s 2011 Midnight Madness Programme, see more trailers from that programme here and here).
The Cultural Gutter 