Last night I went to see the greatest movie of all time, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, in a movie theatre. Well, it’s the most current number one in Sight and Sound’s poll of critics worldwide. It’s certainly my favourite movie though I’ve always felt weirdly uncertain that it deserves that top spot more than Citizen…

HELP! I need to tap into the wider hive mind if it is still there.

Handmade by a Ukrainian craftswoman Lyubov Babak:

One can take deep pleasure in observing the beauty of human life in its myriad and extraordinary forms, or one can have the sensual pleasure of experiencing them first hand, but it’s impossible to experience both at the same time. Having one means sacrificing the other in Wim Wender’s 1987 film Der Himmel über Berlin…

The stakes seem to be getting higher on Twin Peaks as several characters seem to be trapped, unable to move forward. I identified last week a theme of victimised children and that’s certainly become even more prominent this week. Along with this, issues of identity and the line between innocence and guilt are being…

Advanced Muggle Studies is back, and we’re punnier than ever! This week, we discuss: poor misdirected Ginny; magical hucksters; new and improved criminal Hermione; bad swelling puns; What the Fuck, Hogwarts?; Dueling Clubs are useless; no one in this school did any student teaching; pointless spell fights; Snape is a…

April is National Poetry Month, and that leads to a really fun thought experiment: What great poets are the best analogues for great comic book artists, and vice versa? I began with a simple question—Who are some of the most awesome, recognizable comic book artists? You know, creators with legendary portfolios that…

We’re back on Advanced Muggle Studies! This week, we discuss: more monomyth; disapproving McGonagall; positive social policing; What the Fuck, Hogwarts?! After Hours edition; sexy My Little Ponies; virgins LOVE THEM SOME UNICORNS; magical boobs; poorly conceived Jesus metaphors; stop killing animals for their phallus…

Part 2, where we dig into some feminist theory/history in a very NSFW way. This episode, we discuss: obsession with surnames; why witches fly on brooms; why ONLY witches fly on brooms; lady ointment and phallic symbols; sanitizing and co-opting feminist history; What the Fuck, Hogwarts?; Oliver Wood is a hottie; Star…

This is another take on a Phil Noto variant for Ms. Marvel. The original has the picture of Carol Danvers a.k.a. Captain Marvel from the Civil War II storyline which he altered himself, but after the last week of attacks on brown people by Orange Face, this version is The Statement of the Week.

I’ve been working on some drawings for a while. These are complete. For the most part. I have more but those are in different stages of completion.

is like Ukraine itself — covered with flowers and inhabited by sirens:

Tonight marks 350 years since London (or at least a large section of it) was reduced to ash in the Great Fire taking with it 13,000 building but, remarkably, claiming only six lives.

...reenacted shot for shot without a budget.

Like thousands of other kids watching PBS in the early 80s, Secret City opened my eyes to art. Now as an adult, I’ve become friends with the man from the TV screen, and I helped him reconnect with another friend he hasn’t seen in almost 30 years.

The world-famous Getty Museum in Los Angeles hosted a talk today with Game of Thrones costume designer Michele Clapton to discuss the influences medieval art has on her costumes and to share some secrets behind her clothes (such as the Night’s Watch fur capes being made of IKEA rugs).

Guess what! April 15 piles on the days this year. It is Take A Wild Guess Day, supposedly poking those intuitive skills dulled by the pressure of Tax Day. Maybe That Sucks Day sums up the mood, but it is also World Art Day and Universal Day of Culture.

These adorable creatures, each with a name and a calling, come out of hands of Kharkiv-based artist Mariana Kopylova.

Exciting news! I applied to the Hubba Hubba review in the Bay, and they are interested in having me perform in July or August! I am so very excited to do this! One of my fellow performers and her husband are performing there in June, so I didn’t want to step on their debut, but I am very excited to get to do this…

March is going to be a busy month for our group, with two separate gigs and workshops on the horizon. This particular post is going to be all about the first weekend of March that we spent in Tucson, Arizona, with the steampunks of Wild Wild West Con! At this convention, our troupe, consisting of Nikolai de la Muerte, …