“Cover Snark: What if a Disco Ball were a Man?”
At Smart Bitches Trashy Books, Sneezy, Amanda, Sarah and Elyse, consider some questionable decisions in book cover design. Do your rubbernecking here.
On His Chaotic Majesty, King Ghidorah
Happy Year of the Dragon, everyone! The Year of the Dragon only comes once every 12 years and I have let it slip by before without writing about my favorite dragon, well, favorite space dragon, His Chaotic Majesty, King Ghidorah. As the Year of the Dragon commences, and […]
“The Impossible Task of Costuming Time Travel”
Bernadette Banner considers how Doctor Who handles “the challenge of costuming every time and place in the universe.” Watch here.
Is it possible to have too much fun?
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first essay ever published on the Cultural Gutter. Read Jim Munroe’s first piece at the Cultural Gutter, all the way from May 22, 2003! ~~~ Is it possible to have a pleasure circuit overload? “Girls are to be kept away from […]
Building the Glass Onion
Want to know how Rick Heinrichs created the Glass Onion in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)? Read all about it here!
“1985: Making Text Adventure Games”
The BBC Archive has a 1985 piece on Infocom. “Fred Harris goes behind the scenes at Boston software company Infocom. The developer has enjoyed great success with its line of text adventure games–the likes of Zork, Planetfall, Enchanter, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy–which eschew graphics in […]
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