Robot Opera!
Robots are replacing human tenors and divas. It is Robot Opera and the robot apocalypse is nigh!
Incredibox!
Incredibox: Play the hipsters! In English or Francais!
Monster Cereals
B-Sol at the Vault of Horror writes about General Mills Monster cereals and eating what scares us.
Elementary
“We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.”—Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Case of Identity.” When I wrote about Sherlock Holmes and Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Cry of Thunder, I wrote that […]
RIP, Jane Russell
Actress Jane Russell has died at 89. She starred in films and television in every genre from noirs (Macao with Robert Mitchum) to musicals (Gentleman Prefer Blondes with Marilyn Monroe) to Westerns (The Outlaw). KPBS and The New Yorker have tributes.
Capturing Kinshasa Through Comics
The BBC has a fascinating story on Congolese comics and comic artists in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Includes little interviews with Guy Delisle, Papa Mfumu’eto Premier, Bruno Luya and Stephane Oiry
The Cultural Gutter 