Due to a personal emergency, Romance Editor Chris Szego won’t be able to post a new article this week. She will be back next month. Enjoy this timely piece, originally published in 2009. I’ve put it off long enough. Thought, ‘We can get into that later’, and ‘I […]
At the excellent Bookview Cafe, Ursula K. LeGuin writes a fairytale of unemployment. My favorite line? “The Works Fairies are not functioning at present.”
A pretty funny Retail comic (about novelty songs) gets a handwritten note in reply from the creator of Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer!
R.I.P, Anne McCaffrey (lots of great tributes online today: at Whatever, Io9, and Tor among them). Update: everyone seems to be using those fantastic Michael Whelan covers, but McCaffrey had her share of not-so-wonderful covers.
My favorite part of Aliens on Ice? Jones the cat.
Wondermark is running a contest, and the first batch of entries recreate classic Wondermark comics, live-action style (“Stop Fighting” is still one of my favourites, but the Leopold one is pretty good here).
Find t-shirts, mugs, totes and more at our new Guttermart location at Teepublic!
The Cultural Gutter 