RIP, Don Cornelius
Soul Train creator and host Don Cornelius has died. The LA Times has an obituary and YouTube has many, many Soul Train clips.
Filmi Disco
Beth Watkins brings Hindi film disco to the Wall Street Journal’s blog (with plenty of links). “Disco might just be the pop music soul mate of Hindi films, though it’s not like Bollywood ever needs an excuse to bust out the skin-tight shiny costumes, the opulent sets or […]
Interview with Lynda Barry
Comic artist and novelist Lynda Barry is interviewed by Jennifer Smith at The Isthmus.
Pingu’s The Thing
The Thing remade as an episode of Pingu.
Three Decades of David
The Vault of Horror has a very neat series of articles on the 30th anniversary of An American Werewolf in London, “Three Decades of David.”
A Magical Tour of Scary Chinese People
As a follow up to “The Yellow Curse,” Grady Hendrix has posted a gallery of images offering a tour of racist stereotypes of Chinese people from 1881 to the present.
The Cultural Gutter 