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The Cultural Gutter

Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

Going South of 125th Street: The Wiz (1978)

By Michelle on November 6, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Peter Lorre Conquers Mad Love

By Carol on October 22, 2026 • ( 2 Comments )

Death Riders

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on October 15, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

Welcome to Potters Bluff: Death, Resurrection, and the Horror of Small-Town America

By Michelle on October 8, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Best of the Best Is Pretty Good!

By Beth Watkins on October 1, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Carol Goes to Fantastic Fest 2026!

By Carol on September 24, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

The Ocean’s Secret Paths

By Guttersnipe on September 21, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

An interactive map of fiber-optic cables running beneath the world’s oceans (and seas). (via etsy)

The Periodic Table of Exploitation

By Guttersnipe on September 18, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

One man laboring in obscurity in  has finally done what scientists working for vast think tanks  have struggled for decades to accomplish. Behold, the “Periodic Table of Exploitation!“

Conan the Barbarian becomes a university lecturer

By Carol on September 17, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

That’s a great hack: adding Dr. Conan T. Barbarian to a faculty listing. His thesis is of course: “To Hear the Lamentations of Their Women: Constructions in Masculinity in Contemporary Zamoran Literature”

More Tin-Tin and Lovecraft

By Carol on September 17, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

We posted some of these before, but here’s an expanded gallery of Lovecraftian Tin-Tin book covers by Murray Groat. (via Forbidden Planet International).

The Art of Horror Movie Music

By Carol on September 17, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

Stephen Thrower writes a retrospective soundtracks and composers for horror movies spanning from Psycho to the present, and ends with a call for more innovation and “a neat draft of madness.” (via @AwesomeBMovies_)

Prepping for Talk Like a Pirate Day

By Carol on September 16, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

Savage Chickens has been pulling out all the stops in the run-up to Talk Like a Pirate Day… Also, Mundane Spider-Man!

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The Cultural Gutter is a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. The site is updated every Thursday afternoon. Carol Borden, Sachin Hingoo, Alex MacFadyen, Beth Watkins, and Michelle Kisner probe science fiction, draw out the best in comics, stare deeply into the screen, sink their fangs into horror, dally with romance, speedrun their brains on videogames, grapple with wrestling, and explore so much more. Our Guest Stars shine here. Thanks to Gutter aesthetic director Brian Kirby for all his swank art. Thanks to EJ Lee for providing the fantastic art we used in the Cultural Gutter book. The Cultural Gutter's signature nail polishes, "Disreputable," and, "Disreputable 2: Hellcat," were created by Andrea Evans of MPZ Cosmetics. MPZ Cosmetics also teamed up with Dill McKinley to recreate the classic fragrance, Cornichon by Dill McKinley for Gutterthon 2021. Follow us on Bluesky, Facebook, and Mastodon. We do not accept unsolicited pitches.

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