Are you geeky? Geeky enough to enjoy Beowulf in any form? Geeky enough to hear it recited in Old English? Geeky enough to watch Benjamin Bagby accompany his recitation with the Anglo-Saxon lyre? Dang, I’m impressed! Thanks to Greg Kamiya and his Salon essay, Beowulf vs. The Lord […]
Some months back I wrote a column about Georgette Heyer, who re-imagined Jane Austen’s Regency era and popularized it for modern audiences. The Regency period, 1811-1820, refers to the years of King George III’s insanity, when his son, the Prince of Wales, was Regent of England in his […]
“Almost like a crazy person is holding the pencil.” My God, Mike Allred has created a comic featuring Fletcher Hanks’ disturbing and punitive hero Stardust. (Thanks to Again With The Comics)
Ask Cthulhu. Ask Plush Cthulhu; he’s crabbier.
I recently had a conversation with my ten year-old son that I had been longing to have since before he was born, since before I was even sure I really wanted to have kids. We were well into the eleventh hour of a game of Risk that had […]
There can only be one Superest: “Player 1 draws a character with a power. Player 2 then draws a character whose power cancels the power of that previous character. Repeat.”
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The Cultural Gutter 