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 […]
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.
Cablegate: The Game
Watergate brought us All The President’s Men (in both book and film form). Wikileaks brings us Cablegate: The Game. (via Denis at The Horror?!)
I Double Dog Dare You
Last month I wrote about Jackass as a cultural project, but what I initially intended to write about was how I feel just a little bit better about myself and the world after watching it. And no, it’s not because they’re all more of a jackass than I […]
The Cultural Gutter 