Grady Hendrix wrote a story for Strange Horizons, “The Bright and Shining Parasites of Guiyu,” and realized he’d ended it too soon: “In the story, the trash pickers of Guiyu work for local Chinese companies who exploit them to the hilt in order to squeeze every cent from […]
Kotaku has a column Harris O’Malley aka, Dr. Nerdlove, has written on geeks and male privilege. Meanwhile, Dr. Nerdlove takes another whack at the hornets’ nest on his own blog.
Megan Rosalarian Gedris draws some nice comparisons to illustrate a point about how the ladies are drawn in many superhero comics. My favorite? Man Canary with his “come hither look.”
“[A]t the age of 41, at about 94 minutes into The Divide,” Drew McWeeny writes, “I reached a breaking point, and I realized that I am pretty much incapable of sitting through one more cheap, pointless, exploitative rape in a movie.”
Comic artist and novelist Lynda Barry is interviewed by Jennifer Smith at The Isthmus.
Here’s an Indonesian trailer for The Raid, not that it matters because the titles are in English and asskickery is an universal language. (The Raid played at–and won the People’s Choice Award–at TIFF’s 2011 Midnight Madness Programme, see more trailers from that programme here and here).
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