Hellboy and the Hobbit
Guillermo del Toro has a lot to say about Hellboy and hobbits at the L.A. Film Festival. (Really, it’s an hour interview).
Chad Vader Trains His Staff
In honor of the Gutter’s trip to Madison, we present, Chad Vader Training Videos here and here. If you haven’t seen the Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager episodes, looky here. (And yes, I saw the food co-op where it’s shot).
Afrofuturism
Preserved from usenet, Mark Dery’s 1994 essay on Afrofuturism: “Hack this: Why do so few African-Americans write science fiction, a genre whose close encounters with the Other—the stranger in a strange land—would seem uniquely suited to the concerns of African-American novelists? …. This is especially perplexing in light […]
Mothership Connection
It’s a history of Afronauts in music, from Rev. A.W. Nix to Sun Ra to Lil Wayne.
MK vs DCU screenshots: Dark Knight vs Ninja!
Always wanted to see the Dark Knight go ninja a ninja with Scorpion? Newsarama has screenshots from the Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe game.
Red Eye
15 hours on the road and I was my own red-eye on I-94’s corridor of stripclubs, fireworks and roadkill, racing past dead deer in Michigan, then Gary, Indiana’s steel mills and through Chicagoland, the Sears Tower in the distance waiting for its evil eye, till the highway gave […]
The Cultural Gutter 