“The History of SPAM”
On Tasting History, Max Miller makes a spam ribbon loaf from a 1950s recipe and discusses the history of spam. Watch here.
“Godzilla’s Greatest Battles!”
TokuSHOUTsu has a 24 hour live stream of Godzilla’s greatest battles. Though it’s really all kinds of kaiju battles including fights from War of The Gargantuas (1966). Watch here!
“Here’s the Thing: Fantastic Four #1 (1961)!”
Friend of the Gutter Mark White delves into the first issue of The Fantastic Four at his new blog, Here’s The Thing… Read it here.
Podcast On Fire on the Lee Rock Crime Saga!
At Podcast On Fire, “Today is episode one of our two-part look at Lee Rock and Lee Rock II, a four-hour crime saga based on the life of Lui Lok, a real Hong Kong police officer whose career took him from cadet to high-ranking power broker within a […]
Just One More Thing… Or Two or Three: Some Thoughts on The Residence, Elsbeth, and Poker Face
Sometimes you just want to watch a quirky investigator irritate people—especially wealthy and powerful people—into revealing they’ve committed crimes. Especially murder. I’ve been enjoying some new and new-ish mysteries lately, Poker Face, Elsbeth and The Residence. All three feature women investigating murders. All are series produced after Rian […]
Queer Histories and the Secret Language of Queer Art
The National Galleries has a pair of videos on Queer art. The first is “The Secret Languages of Queer Art,” which talks about identification and coding in Queer art and can be watched here. And “The Hidden Histories of Queer Art,” which discusses Queer art and the suppression […]
The Cultural Gutter 