Livestreams of Kung Fu, Karate, Kaiju, Jackie Chan, Kamen Rider, and Sonny Chiba!
Shout Factory is hosting a crazy number of livestreams on YouTube right now via TokuSHOUTsu! Pick your poison here.
“The Unravelling of an Expert on Serial Killers”
Lauren Collins considers the curious case of Stéphane Bourgoin. “Stéphane Bourgoin became famous through his jailhouse interviews with murderers. Then an anonymous collective of true-crime fans began investigating his own story.” Read more here.
“Pluralistic: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification”
Cory Doctorow has more to say about enshittification. “So what’s enshittification and why did it catch fire? It’s my theory explaining how the internet was colonized by platforms, and why all those platforms are degrading so quickly and thoroughly, and why it matters – and what we can […]
Filmi Ladies: “Dimple Kapadia”
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins continue their series on Bollywood’s female superstars with a look at Dimple Kapadia! “Some may argue that Dimple Kapadia doesn’t quite count as a superstar of Hindi cinema, but she’s so interesting that we couldn’t resist! […]
Dimension 20: Dungeons and Drag Queens!
“Watch as Bob the Drag Queen, Monét X Change, Alaska, and Jujubee join Brennan in the Dome for a wild, chaotic, and heartfelt adventure into the underworld in the premiere episode of Dungeons and Drag Queens.” Watch here.
The Legend Of My House
“It watches,” he added suddenly. “The house. It watches every move you make.” “We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind might fight wildly to preserve its own familiar stable patterns against all evidence that it […]
The Cultural Gutter 