JCVD is Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Van Damme is Jean-Claude Van Damme in JCVD. Watch the trailer. Seriously.
Why Is Miike Smirking?
Takashi Miike smirks, and I shudder.
World Domination is Fun
Dr. Steel builds the robots, creates propaganda and issues manifestos. Plus, he has a band.
Shutting Down the Obvious
Rudy Rucker, on his excellent photoblog / scifi-stream- of-consciousness, talks about virtual reality (with responses): “My whole point is to wake people up to the fact that the physical, daily world is inconceivably rich.”
“Cured of Being a Tomboy”
Sleestak explores those strange girls in comics, tomboys from Romance comics to Disney.
Visible Pantylines
If there’s anything I learned from 1970s underwear commercials, it’s that nothing ruins a woman’s day like visible pantylines. Back then I didn’t know exactly what visible pantylines were or why they were so embarrassing, but after reading Terra Obscura, I do and they’ve ruined my day.
The Cultural Gutter 