The Nanny Art
Behold this Instagram gallery which pairs stills from the sit-com The Nanny with contemporary art.
Interview with Jane Curtin
Jane Curtin talks about improv, Saturday Night Live, sit-coms and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2019) at The New Yorker. “I loved doing improv, and I was really good at it. I would come from an area that nobody else would come from. One of the things that […]
Lord of the Rings as a game of Dungeons & Dragons
Lord of the Rings‘ plot is clarified as a transcript of a bunch of people playing Dungeons and Dragons. “Starts with a long, low-level adventure of just getting out of The Shire and getting the ring to Rivendell. DM originally prepped a low-level hobbit campaign for their roommates […]
“If literature’s ‘complicated men’ were on Tinder.”
At McSweeney’s, Sarah Chevalier shares the Tinder profiles of literature’s “complicated men.” “I’m just a better-than-regular guy looking for an almost angelically good woman with a tragic story who will for no good reason dedicate herself to my redemption and is really into listening to me reciting my […]
“Cinema of Fire: The Top 5 Films of Director Ringo Lam”
Friend of the Gutter Colin Geddes shares his 5 favorite Ringo Lam films. “Lam originally started out with hopes of being an actor, but ended up studying filmmaking at Toronto’s York University. When he returned to Hong Kong he was steered into directing comedies that were trendy at […]
“The Lady Hero’s Journey”
Kathleen O’Mara charts “The Lady Hero’s Journey” at McSweeney’s. “A woman tries to set out on The Hero’s Journey only to find that Joseph Campbell didn’t believe that women take The Hero’s Journey. She must instead embark on The Lady Hero’s Journey.”
The Cultural Gutter 