This week’s kitty is from the ’80s horror classic Night of the Creeps, which gave us Tom Atkins as a zombie-killing cop with an unforgettable catchphrase (“Thrill me”). If you’ve seen the movie—or, really, any horror movie—you know that misfortune awaits this kitty. So let’s just appreciate its brief, non-undead appearance here. And then appreciate some links:
- Oh, thank you, Brad Pike of Thought Catalog, for narrating the inner monologue of a kid on Legends of the Hidden Temple. So many memories.
- In light of Starfire’s sexed-up reboot, there’s been a lot of talk of the continual sexification and objectification of women in superhero comics. Here are two especially powerful accounts: Michele Lee asks her (Starfire-loving) 7-year-old daughter for a response to her new look/personality and Laura Hudson breaks down how super hero comics use “sexual liberation” against us.
- From Dr. Seuss to the Holy Bible, Salon lists off 10 American institutions that would shock today’s Right.
- Jean-Baptiste Thoret asks, “What does the cinema think about when it dreams of Baudrillard?” (A long read, but with some fascinating nuggets.)
- Need a good sci-fi/fantasy book suggestion? SF Signal’s got you covered with this handy flowchart.
- The Dancing Image’s Joel Bocko is back with “The Big Picture: The Movies and Me,” a very personal and passionate genealogy of cinephilia.
- Ted Hope’s “99 Recommended Steps For Making Good Movies.” A little utopian, but still a lot of good points to consider.
We had one outstandingly weird search term this week: “Чарли Кауфман пьессы,” Russian for “Charlie Kaufman pessy.” Yeahhh. I don’t know what to make of that. But it’s weird.
Starfire is magnificent the way she was, that 7-year-old girl speaks truth.
And to think, Red Hood and the Outlaws sounded so cool when it was first announced.
Our “weird search term of the week that specifically comes from having Pussy Goes Grr in our blogroll”: “voyager of the squirth pusy,” Reformulate that to “voyage of the squirt pussy,” and it still doesn’t make any sense!