Maurice Sendak talks about his work and the art he loves, “My work has always been considered inappropriate, but the ones that I love, the ones that I think work as works of art and books are inappropriate.” There are also glimpses of his workspace and his dog. […]
Shamus Young over at Twenty Sided takes a look at the odd Thieves’ Guild quest in Skyrim: “The Player is railroaded into accepting this idiotic sequence of actions, is prevented from asking reasonable questions, and is forced to ask stupid ones.”
100 pages of Blade Runner glory, out of print, but online and free. (Thanks, @matt_kay) (Fixed link!)
Foreshadowing is tough: too subtle and the author’s effort is wasted, too obvious and the readers will figure out the setup way too early. Patrick Lee’s The Breach is a master-class in taking the obvious setup and blasting your face off with the thing you thought you were […]
Kenichi Matsuyama, who played L in Death Note, Masura Kato in Gantz: Light in the Dark and who Midnight Madness fans might remember as Negishi/Johannes Krauser from Detroit Metal City, is playing the 12th Century/Heian Era, Taira no Kiyomori, in an eponymous 50 episode NHK television series. The […]
Le Crabe aux Pinces d’Or is a 1947 Tintin film directed by Claude Misson. It is in French. (via @beatonna)
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The Cultural Gutter 