No One Can Stop Machete
Austin 360 reports on a letter-writing campaign to deny Robert Rodriguez’ Machete Texas state incentive funding.
Commodification is Inevitable
Joe Steckart has an interesting response to Patton Oswalt’s “Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die“: “Reading Watchmen does not make you cool. Being able to talk about it intelligently does. The counterculture, the ineffable ‘cool,’ will always be manifesting itself in something. Right now it’s manifesting at least […]
Thing One and Thing Two
The Thing is coming for you! But you don’t know which one of your friends is The Thing! Paranoia… gore… body horror… and all of the above recently retold from The Thing’s point of view.
5 Sci Fi Children’s Books
Kirk And Spock Are Friends and other science fiction children’s books…
Most Anticipated Asian Films of 2011
Wildgrounds breaks down their most anticipated films of 2011.
Twilight of the Geeks
Patton Oswalt wants to save geekery by destroying it: “In order to save pop culture future, we’ve got to make the present pop culture suck, at least for a little while.” It reminds me of Jim Munroe’s question at WisCon 2008: “Does it have to get boring before […]
The Cultural Gutter 