“The Origin Stories Behind the Villains of Black Panther”
At Black Girl Nerds, Kai Charles looks at some of the villains of Black Panther. Part One covers Ulysses Klaw and Erik Killmonger.
So Many Musicals!
The Vulture has a list of fifty swell-looking non-Holllywood, non-English musicals for your perusal!
The Cosmic Horror of John Carpenter’s The Thing
At Nerdist, Kyle Anderson writes about the cosmic horror of The Thing (1982). “Lovecraft would often not describe his sinister entities, choosing instead to say simply “the indescribable horror” or the like, and allow the reader to come up with their own visuals. The inability of humans to […]
A Report on My Experience with Kabi Nagata’s Lesbian Experience With Loneliness.
I stayed up too late reading Kabi Nagata’s My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness (Los Angeles: Seven Seas Press, 2017). It’s one of those books. It moves fast and covers more ground than it seems to. I thought I’d just take a look at it before going to sleep […]
Creeping Obsolescence
At the Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance writes about the creeping obsolescence of CDs (and DVDs) as well as the ways they deteriorate physically. “Recordable CDs—the kind you can burn or rewrite—tend to have more complicated degradation issues than their professionally-recorded counterparts. That’s partly because they’re made from organic dyes […]
BGN Podcast Extra: “Bryan Fuller Gets Bloody at Vulture Festival”
The Black Girl Nerds Podcast shares a panel discussion with Bryan Fuller, creator of Hannibal and American Gods, and New York Magazine and Vulture TV’s Matt Zoller Seitz at the Vulture Festival. They discuss “notable bloody scenes that inspired [Fuller] over his career.”
