“You mean Ernie’s got a bus?”
Just in time for Ernest Borgnine’s birthday, Ernest Borgnine on the Bus, a documentary following Ernest Borgnine on a road trip through the Midwest.
Interview with Lynda Barry
Comic artist and novelist Lynda Barry is interviewed by Jennifer Smith at The Isthmus.
On the value of frightening small children
I remember seeing Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away in the theatre, and I think it holds the record, in my experience, for the fastest time in making a small child cry. I have no idea what movie the child’s parents thought they were taking her to, but I don’t […]
Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition
At Wired, GeekDad takes a look at the impending launch of a fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons so soon after a fourth: “For the past few years, starting with the very announcement of 4E and the Virtual Tabletop debacle, Wizards has been very poor at communicating honestly […]
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.
RIP, Bob Anderson
Olympic fencer, sword master, stunt choreographer, performer and actor, Bob Anderson has died. Anderson performed Darth Vader’s lightsaber battles in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Her served as sword master, fight coordinator and stunt performer in films such as 1953’s The Master of Ballantrae […]
The Cultural Gutter 