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Fat Cactus

This week from the fattest, baddest cactus around:

Death to Humans! Visions of the Apocalypse in Movies and Literature
The triple j Joss Whedon podcast
Variorum of Classic Tracts and Pamphlets by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
Bats in the Bookshelves: The Perils of Literary Social Networking
Ben Eltham shares his thoughts on the two Australia Council arts industry reports
The 1983 Penguin cover of Monkey Grip, with Noni Hazlehurst as Nora
Guilloches – a look at the geometric patterns used on banknote design
Mudmen, folklore and golems
Why ‘[a]dapting a short story is a different animal from novel-to-movie adaptations’
‘And as soon as the winner is announced and it isn’t you … the cameraman just walks away, and you are left there at the table trying to look composed, and you want to die.’ – literary losers
Mic Looby writes the guide on guidebook writing
And, finally, for all the stationary die-hards: first impressions of the new Blackwing pencil