The Gotham Times
It’s The Gotham Times, promotional but still neat.
Love and Change-bots
Comic artist Jeffrey Brown’s badly cropped on SexTV, but the interview is still worth seeing. And while we’re at it, see him transform like an Incredible Change-bot in a Washington Post interview at the 2007 Small Press Book Expo.
An Engineer and a Dreamer
Sad news: Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer and inventor/scientist, died recently – at the age of 90, he had a full life, but it’s still a great loss. To mark his passing, I picked up my favourite of his books, Childhood’s End, and gave it a re-read. […]
“The Easter Bunny Is Eating My Candy”
Is it ever too late for a horror short about the Easter Bunny? (An alternate link)
“Secret Skin: An essay in unitard theory”
Michael Chabon traces the secret origins of the superhero costume in Secret Skin: An essay in unitard theory, in which he proposes “a fundamental truth: like the being who wears it, the superhero costume is, by definition, an impossible object. It cannot exist.”
It Was A Dark And Stormy Night
There’s a scene at the end of the film of Jane Austen’s Persuasion (the Ciaran Hines version, natch) that I love. In it, the hero holds out his hand, and the heroine takes it. That’s it, just two people holding hands. What makes it so powerful is what […]
The Cultural Gutter 