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This site is updated Thursday afternoon with a new article about an artistic pursuit generally considered to be beneath consideration. James Schellenberg probes science-fiction, Carol Borden draws out the best in comics, Chris Szego dallies with romance and Ian Driscoll stares deeply into the screen. Click here for their bios and individual takes on the gutter. Our Guest Stars shine here

While the writers have considerable enthusiasm for their subjects, they don't let it numb their critical faculties. Tossing away the shield of journalistic objectivity and refusing the shovel of fannish boosterism, they write in the hopes of starting honest and intelligent discussions about these oft-enjoyed but rarely examined artforms. Contact us here.


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Disconnected Viewing

sita brahmin.jpegI don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James revisited his favorite childhood books. And it's true—he did inspire me. But it's also true that I don't have cable.

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Hammering Away at the Here and Now

mapinternet-small.jpgLet's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about the real world outside your electronic realm?

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Pilgrim's Progress

Pilgrim 80.jpgFormer Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005.  Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."


There’s a girl sitting on the subway. She’s 16 or so, in a brown corduroy jacket and a pair of faded sneakers, her feet propped on the seat across from her. She’s absently brushing on lipstick, absorbed by Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life: Volume 1.

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By Any Other Name

heart of gold 80.jpegDespite being the largest piece of the trade publishing pie, there’s a lot of good stuff to read out there that isn’t Romance.  And I try to get through as much of it as possible*.  Funnily enough, though, much of the other fiction I read tends to have some sort of romance in it somewhere.  Sometimes it might be between secondary characters.  Sometimes it’s in the background.  Occasionally the relationship doesn’t work out.

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Klingon opera has finally happened. Get an earful at Cinematical. (The musical part begins at about 2:15).
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Trock On!

Trock on, Chameleon Circuit, with your songs about Daleks and angelic statues who only move in the dark.
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Gary Kurtz Strikes Back (by Saying Things)

Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back producer Gary Kurtz is profiled at the L.A. Times. He has some things to say about the franchise and toys.
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Old Timeyness

Travel through pop culture history a premake of Marvel's Avengers (sneak peek of Emma Peel included), faux 1911 silent animated shorts from Red Dead Redemption and Lando Calrissian as Blackstar Warrior--a Blaxploitation film set in the Star Wars universe.
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More from Hometree Wisconsin

Hometree Wisconsin tries to reach you through Chat Roulette.
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L.A.R.P. (Live Avatar Role Playing)

Video footage of the Na'vi People of Hometree, Wisconsin.
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Don't Let The Sheepinator Fool You

sheepinator sheep.JPGDoes being amused by turning non-ovine creatures into sheep make you a bad person? It doesn’t seem like a serious question, but appearances can fool you. Especially, according to Plato, if you are a fool. I think it’s safe to say that there would have been no video games in the Republic.

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Chewbacca's Fierce Mount

Chewbacca rides a squirrel into battle against the Nazis. It's a painting. Really.
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Sharktopus Trailer

Sharktopus is now a film, but my heart is still with Bearsharktopus.
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Comically Vintage

"Meanwhile... a hideous group of subversive paleocomicologists plotted plotted schemes in the dark!!" Those schemes come to fruition in panels scanned at Comically Vintage!!!
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The Greatest Summer Movie of All Time

The Empire Strikes Back vs. Raiders of the Lost Ark--which is the greatest summer movie of all time?  Make your voice heard.
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NES Groove

Do you enjoy the music of NES games? Well, there's a show just for you. This time, the music of "Fester's Quest."

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Alien vs. Ninja

400 years ago ninjas fought an alien, or possibly aliens. Alien vs. Ninja.
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"And I don't understand all your references / like what a TARDIS is..."

"I Have Never Watched An Episode of Doctor Who In My Life," a hip hop confession by Adam WarRock / Eugene Ahn.
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Gutter Art!

You know there's a Cultural Gutter book coming out, right? Well, there is. And artist EJ Lee is illustrating. You can see her section overview illustrations at our Facebook page.  They're infographtastic!
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AT-AT, Aw...

Always clean up after your AT-AT.
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Another Interview with Ray Harryhausen

The BBC has a nice interview with Ray Harryhausen, Stop-Motion and SFX Overlord!
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Collect'em All!

Ed Wood, Jr. trading cards. Includes starlet Dolores Fuller, Bunny Breckenridge, Lyle Talbot, Vampira and Tor Johnson!
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Technotise

Technotise looks like Japanese anime, but it's Serbian. And it's getting a live action remake. Here's hoping Tecnhotise survives and we all get to see the animated version.
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Of Note Elsewhere
Wicked posters for Raleigh, North Carolina's Cinema Overdrive film series.
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Here are some pictures of the ladies reading comics for Read Comics in Public Day. As Gail Simone writes, "Take note everybody in comics!"  (For the record, Carol read Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service 5 on a sidewalk bench, but there's no photo).
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48 vs. 61 in Rintaro and Katsushiro Otomo's excellent bicycle racing short where the racers look kinda like Rintaro and Otomo. Also, damn fine music and possible steampunkery.
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Klingon opera has finally happened. Get an earful at Cinematical. (The musical part begins at about 2:15).
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Makiko Itoh has translated Satoshi Kon's farewell.
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