Ghosts With Shit Jobs Site
The website for Jim Munroe’s new lo-fi, sci-fi flick, Ghosts With Shit Jobs, is now up with video clips from the film. (Full disclosure: Jim was a co-founding editor and video games editor for the Cultural Gutter).
Normal People and Women
At Slacktivist, Fred Clark discusses a Ms. Blog post dedicated to products “marketed to people and also women.” He notes the relation of this kind of marketing and this assumption of “male” as “neutral” to Disqus’ default icon for users who haven’t chosen one and to video game […]
Customer Support FTW
Videogame developer Ross Mills was concerned that a British educational toy store was selling Anakin Skywalker toys figures, given that Anakin had massacred a village of sand people, tried to kill his teacher and slaughtered a school of Jedi younglings. The Early Learning Centre responded with an excellent […]
Parsing Tom Brevoort
The Mary Sue parses Marvel VP Tom Brevoort’s response to a fan asking about Marvel’s responsibility to its female characters.
“Flip a Switch, a Fairy Dies”
Pornokitsch writer (and Kitschies judge) Jared Shurin writes about fairies as fuel and the vast potential of Steampunk as a resource for discussing industrialization.
A Defense of the Silly Godzilla Movies
At TCM’s Movie Morlocks, David Kalat writes a passionate defense of silly Godzilla movies and how Godzilla vs. Megalon conquired the world in “The Importance of Being Godzilla (Part 1).”
The Cultural Gutter 