Trash Culture

I've had myself another fill of old trash culture recently, some films, some books, although I've not been doing a lot of video gaming of late, so there's no computer games for you this time. Format is the same as ever: I don't get out much to do anything besides drink beer or play games, so I'm never up on recent cultural milestones in our particular trashy oeuvre. I've not seen Watchmen, nor am I likely to until it turns up on satellite TV. So instead I'm picking over the older stuff, the more obscure stuff, the stuff you might...

I've made no secret of the fact that I'm a bit of a Tolkien nerd. Not so much of a Tolkien nerd that I have researched extensively what a greater obsessive once described to me as "the external textual history" or to have learned to speak or write in Elvish, but enough of one to know that there's more than one Elvish language, and to be aware that that's not the sort of titbit which goes down well in polite conversation. But here, in the midst of people who pin their fan badges to any number of...

  It finally happened.   They said it couldn't be done, but fans have finally been treated to a film adaptation of Alan Moore's legendary graphic novel, "Watchmen." Did director Zak Snyder nail this one, or was the conventional wisdom true?   ...

I first came across Zalgo early last week whilst browsing my favourite humour site b3ta. A little delving later and I found myself hooked on a small but intriguing internet phenomenon. It seemed like the sort of material that the audeince here would appreciate, so I thought I'd collect some of my favourite examples together for you in one thread. Besides which I didn't have a proper article lined up in time for this week and this represents a great stopgap for the lazy - none of the cartoons...