“100 Great Sci-Fi Stories By Women Writers”
Ian Sales has created a list of one hundred great science fiction stories written by women. Open Culture has links to twenty of them for your (free) online reading pleasure. (Via Broad Universe)
The Tiniest of Sweaters
Althea Crome makes amazing and tiny, tiny knit art. Check out her website for galleries of her work and to watch her knit clothing for the puppets in the animated film, Coraline. Indiana Public media profiles Crome here. and see her brain cozy and all the other brains […]
RIP, Michael Ansara
Actor Michael Ansara has died. While Ansara had countless television and movie roles, he is probably best known now for his roles as Kang in Star Trek and the Technomage Elric in Babylon 5, the voice of Mr. Freeze in Batman: The Animated Series and Cochise in the […]
“That’s Not A Plot Hole. Allow Me To Explain”
Scott Nye writes about plot holes, deflection, and characters explaining for the audience at Ebert.com‘s “Balder & Dash” blog: “Characters must constantly address questions on behalf of a too-curious audience awash in complexly-plotted mega-stories. The movies are trying to plug leaks in a boat before the whole thing […]
RIP, Dennis Farina
Actor Dennis Farina has died. The Chicago Tribune and WGN TV remember Farina. The New York Times and The Guardian have obituaries. Here’s Farina as Jimmy Serrano in Midnight Run, as Henry DeSalvo in Big Trouble and as Mike Torello in Crime Story.
“The Best of Baldur’s Gate”
James Long shares his “top five memorable Baldur’s Gate characters” at Pornokitsch.
The Cultural Gutter 