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The Cultural Gutter

Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

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 )

Fantastic Fest 2026: Terms & Conditions (USA, 2026)

By Carol on September 23, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Fantastic Fest 2026: Kung Fu Deadly

By Carol on September 22, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Fantastic Fest 2026: Girl In The Night!

By Carol on September 21, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Before Bruce’s Fists of Fury, There Was Ip Man

By Carol on January 20, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

Donnie Yen plays Wing Chun master–and Bruce Lee’s sifu–Ip Man in the eponymous movie.  Asses are kicked, regretfully. But not so regretfully there won’t be a sequel where more asses are kicked in Hong Kong. Wong Kar-Wai’s Grandmaster Ip Man might show up, well, sometime. You can bet […]

Fold Yourself a Crustacean

By Carol on January 19, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

Recreate crustaceans, cephalopods and even angler fish with pdf origami patterns. If you don’t read Japanese, just click on the critter and get going.(Thanks again, Steven!)

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello

By Carol on January 18, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

Airships, mysterious islands, satanic scientists, vampiric creatures, tragedy.  All in silhouette in The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello. (Thanks, Steven!)

What’d I miss?

By Carol on January 16, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

And further to the subject of analyses of opening credits sequences, The Art of the Title is a repository of, well, just that. 

By hook or by crook

By Carol on January 16, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

We want information! Further to the remembrance of Patrick McGoohan, here’s a 12-minute and 19-second analysis of The Prisoner’s one-minute, 47-second opening credits sequence. Be seeing you.

Galleries of Destruction and Awesomeness

By Carol on January 15, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

“Giant monsters attack Flickr!” and Kung Fu Fridays is there to capture it with links anatomical drawings of kaiju and links to other galleries of monsters, Irwin Allen, architecture, 60s pop styles and all kinds of goodness.

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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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