http://theculturalgutter.com/ en-us everyone@theculturalgutter.com 2007-10-25T11:15:31-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://theculturalgutter.com/guest_star/would_you_let_your_daughter_marry_godzilla.html When Godzilla first waded out of the ocean to trample Odo Island in 1954, he was a monster for the times, serious as radiation poisoning. Japan was still rebuilding in the wake of WWII. Wartime traumas were still fresh. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were only nine years past, and there was a new social class in Japan: the hibakusha.... 962@http://theculturalgutter.com/ Guest Star 2007-10-25T11:15:31-05:00 http://theculturalgutter.com/notes/gothtober.html Gothtober is a sort of online Halloween advent calendar. Click on the S.S. Gothtober and see a new short everyday.... 961@http://theculturalgutter.com/ Notes 2007-10-24T13:06:41-05:00 http://theculturalgutter.com/comics/posthuman_throwdown_zombies_vs_robots.html Humanity has long been interested in both zombies and robots, in looking at zombies and robots, and in seeing zombies and robots fight. Writer Chris Ryall and artist Ashley Wood know these basic truths to be self-evident. So am I being pandered to with their Zombies vs. Robots hardcover, collecting the 2007 IDW miniseries with some additional origin material?... 959@http://theculturalgutter.com/ Comics 2007-10-17T14:40:14-05:00 http://theculturalgutter.com/notes/nutcracker_suite.html Ever wanted a comprehensive collection of comic book "nadshots"? Ah, the good old internet. (Thanks Ezra).... 958@http://theculturalgutter.com/ Notes 2007-10-16T12:08:44-05:00 http://theculturalgutter.com/notes/nonlinear_theater.html Make your own space opera with Nonlinear Theater, the random movie generator at Chinese Jet Pilot.... 957@http://theculturalgutter.com/ Notes 2007-10-15T19:32:59-05:00 http://theculturalgutter.com/notes/hip_hop_grue.html You are likely to be eaten by a Grue. Don't say we didn't warn you. Nerdcore hip hop visionary MC Frontalot is on tour and soon to be in the documentary, Nerdcore Rising.... 956@http://theculturalgutter.com/ Notes 2007-10-15T19:22:32-05:00 http://theculturalgutter.com/sciencefiction/a_locked_room.html Here's a mission: write a series for young adults that is six books long, competes with all the digital distractions of current life, and keeps the kids coming back for each new entry. Sounds hard! A lot of series break down just on the issue of writing sequels that don't suck. Timothy Zahn is five books into his Dragonback series; I've read four, and Zahn comes pretty close to pulling off what sounds like an impossible mission.... 955@http://theculturalgutter.com/ Science-Fiction 2007-10-11T15:10:38-05:00 http://theculturalgutter.com/notes/robert_jordan_remembered.html Some words for Robert Jordan's passing, and on the series he left unfinished: "Jordan stretched his ambitious tale even further, to a dozen books, until it was not just a Dark Tower but a literary Tower of Babel possessing all of the attendant frenzied hubris such an analogy demands."... 954@http://theculturalgutter.com/ Notes 2007-10-05T09:22:00-05:00 http://theculturalgutter.com/guest_star/_games_through_a_comix_lens.html The book Understanding Comics, published in 1993, was comic writer and artist Scott McCloud’s attempt to deconstruct, demystify, and lay out the magic of the sequential art form. Written in the form of a comic itself, it was one mechanism by which comics rose from the shadows of culture to become a more accepted art form. What McCloud didn’t anticipate was that video-game developers would adopt Understanding Comics as an instruction manual for their industry.... 953@http://theculturalgutter.com/ Guest Star 2007-10-04T11:54:21-05:00 http://theculturalgutter.com/notes/mc_chris_retrospective.html With MC Chris (aka, "MC Pee Pants" from Aqua Teen Hunger Force) about to go on tour, now seems like a good time to revisit his Kingdom Hearts/Resident Evil 4 rant. And, well, how about Baddd Spellah's "Fett's Vette" remix, too?... 951@http://theculturalgutter.com/ Notes 2007-09-28T19:49:36-05:00