Child’s Play Directed: Tom Holland Starring: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, and Brad Dourif 82 mins, R Child’s Play isn’t about Christmas, but it is a wintry movie about the perils of gift-giving, and it was on constant television rotation during the holidays when I was younger. The movie is therefore inextricably linked to Christmas and…
R/W: The Gauntlet Thrown Down
Writing Tips The challenge, should you choose to accept it, you must include at least one of the words on this Buzzfeed list of “old-timey” words in your next conversation. Does that sound like a bunch of stultiloquence to you? Well, whoever said a little tommyrot was ever bad for you? So get your monkeyshine on…
Multifarious: Space Art and GIF Technology
Welcome back to Multifarious, our weekend arts linkblog. What’s new in our own personal art worlds? What’s new in unusual art? PasteDesign has discovered the best thing. The best thing! There is now a giphoscope! The Giphoscope looks a bit like a haunted rolodex, with a moment from a film playing forever inside. It’s a low tech creation…
Gift Guide: Donations
It’s Winter in the Northern hemisphere, now. That means snow for some of us, and a lot of it. Where there isn’t snow, there’s rain, wind, and colder temperatures. It’s a good time to give, but giving shouldn’t be done without careful consideration or out of habit. It’s important to be informed about the charities, NGOs,…
Wearing the Flag: Chuck Wendig and Adam Christopher on their Reboot of Archie’s The Shield
The Shield, like all of Dark Circle’s upcoming comics line, is a reboot — of sorts. The first Shield debuted in Pep Comics #1 jn January of 1940, only months before Captain America’s debut in December of that year. The character was the first patriotic superhero but many followed: Captain America and Minute Man in…
Love Is Far, You Can Wait for It: Carmen, by em est Reviewed
My friend Melissa is a professional singer and a lover of opera. I’m not a professional singer, but I am a liker of opera. A few years ago I saw the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Carmen. It was my first time and I was transported. When I told her about my experience, Melissa sighed. Carmen,…
R/W: Write, Translate, Fantasize
Welcome back to R/W, our weekend linkblog on writing, reading, language, and literacy. This week we’re thinking about writing mechanics, reading mechanics, and the politics of translation. I am always happy to find great articles and sites from industry experts that can help me improve my skills as a writer. I especially like articles that…
Sunday Art Gala: Dressing for the Hunger Games
I asked the women of WWAC to suit up for Panem. Here’s how they’re dressing for the Hunger games. Claire: What if [the worst]? If I have to go to the woods to play at murders, I don’t want rocks dropped on me, I don’t want to get cold or stay wet. Luxury & laughs…
Multifarious: Welcome to the Future
Famous Avant Garde Painting Discovered…in Stuart Little’s Living Room? Discovery of famous lost pieces of art aren’t completely unknown, but you don’t exactly expect to see them in the house of a CGI mouse voiced by Michael J. Fox. A work by Hungarian avant-garde artist Róbert Berény was recently unearthed when an art historian spotted…
Shopping for the Lesbian Superhero in Your Life? Autostraddle’s Got You Covered
Autostraddle covers comics? Why yes it does, and quite nicely if you ask me. This morning they published the most important gift guide they’ll put out during this holiday season: Lesbian Superheroes (And Other Comic Stuff for Queer Lady-Types). Yesss, yesss, more of this. In a strange coincidence, (diversity makes for good comics? NO WAY!)…
[TW] Belief Is Radical: Believe Shia LaBeouf
During an interview with Dazed Digital earlier this week, actor Shia LaBeouf shared the knowledge that he was raped during a performance art project. We believe him. General response to the news was familiar: you don’t need me to tell you how people reacted to a man, a famous man, saying that he was raped. Abused…
Recommended Listening: James Baldwin, The Fire This Time
The Sunday Edition is a long-running CBC Radio program. This morning, host Michael Enright interviewed famed American dancer and coreographer, now the executive artistic director of New York Live Arts, Bill T. Jones. The group staged a performance this year called James Baldwin, This Time! based on the writer and critic’s work. Enright and Jones had a…