Jane Austen, Master Game Theorist
Jane Austen responds to Michael Chwe naming her a master of Game Theory.
LEGO Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad as a Lego Adventure Game.
Superman and Transcending Reality
“Words like ‘realism’ and ‘dark’ and ‘gritty’ get bandied about Hollywood as if the only merit a story can have is in its verisimilitude, but that’s a lie. Emotional honesty transcends reality; it’s what allows disbelief to be suspended, and yet what makes a story stay true.” Writer […]
Venture Bros. Season 5 Promo
New clip promoting Venture Bros. season 5.
My New Weapon of Choice
<!– P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } –> In April, the Guttersnipes like to mix it up a little. This month, Comics Editor Carol Borden writes about romance. “You hit him with a frying pan,” he said to her. “How come you didn’t grab a knife?” “The […]
The Writer Who Had Done A Stint In The Secret World
“The merit of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, then – or its offence, depending where you stood – was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible. The bad dream turned out to be one that a lot of people in the world […]
The Cultural Gutter 