RIP, Mike Vraney
Found of Something Weird Video, Mike Vraney has died. Our friends at Daily Grindhouse remember Vraney. The AV Club has an obituary. Seattle Weekly has a statement from Something Weird Video.
Best Korean Movies of 2013
At Modern Korean Cinema, Pierce Conran shares his list of top ten Korean movies in 2013.
Operation Scraping Netflix’s Data
“This database probing told me three things: 1) Netflix had an absurdly large number of genres, an order of magnitude or two more than I had thought, 2) it was organized in a way that I didn’t understand, and 3) there was no way I could go through […]
“The Fallen Astronaut”
At Slate, Corey S. Powell and Laure Gwen Shapiro write about a small sculpture placed on the moon by astronaut David Scott in 1971.
Fanzines and Doctor Who’s Regeneration
At The Atlantic, Nolan Feeny writes a piece on the impact of zines, fan writers (including Steven Moffat, Paul Cornell and the new Doctor, Peter Capaldi) and fandom on Doctor Who. “If you had an opinion and wrote well, you aspired to write for the best zines, and […]
“Bilbo was definitely a girl”
“[M]y daughter was determined. She liked the story pretty well so far, but Bilbo was definitely a girl. So would I please start reading the book the right way?” Michelle Nijhuis reads The Hobbit to her daughter and ponders the possibilities of switching characters’ gender in stories.
The Cultural Gutter 