A Case of Mesmerism
Mesmerism, the mystery beyond the veil and bodily decay are all rendered in delightfully cartoony style in Bahij Jaroudi’s “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar.” Cartoon Brew has an interview as well as the short.
The Cultural Gutter Is Now A Book!
The Cultural Gutter book is now available! Enjoy the Gutter as a hardcopy (hooray for the codex!), on your e-reader or as an e-book online! And if you like it, please vote it up on Boing Boing’s Submitterator! Thanks, Drew, artist EJ Lee and everyone at Carnegie-Mellon University’s […]
“Tomorrow Never Say Never” Starring George Lazenby
The Random James Bond Movie generator gives you a title, a plot and a particular Bond. (Also provides book titles).
“Core Concepts: Superman”
Adam Knave writes, “Superman is everything we could be, if we felt deep enough and trusted in ourselves and one another enough. He can save you with a kind word as well as stopping bullets. You can do the same, he tells us. You can all do the […]
Second Place Ain’t Second Best
Previously, I wrote a column about Meredith Duran, who got her start in publishing when her first novel, the astonishingly good Duke of Shadows, won the Gather.com First Chapters Romance Writing Competition. I liked the interesting and collaborative nature of the online contest. Entrants posted their first chapters […]
Johnny Knoxville in the D
Johnny Knoxville made a documentary in Detroit. And he didn’t shoot a bunch of ruin porn, either.
The Cultural Gutter 