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A bookstore inside a preserved church.

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1.) Wolfie’s forehead is frigging enormous. Is he a Klingon? Does the store manager loathe Trekkies? Is this anti-nerd discrimination?
2.) FUN AT HOME PROJECTS: Guess what ethnic group Wolfie is supposed to represent! Pick one of: Jewish, Italian, Hispanic, or “Asian.” Is it not shameful how lazy Wolfie is compared to the heroically Aryan Buzzy? [...]

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Sometimes I wonder what I feel like writing about and I draw a bit of a blank. This is why I am thankful for Republicans. Give them a couple days, and inevitably they will produce a howler. For example, this one, from a mid-to-high-level organizer in the Rudy Guiliani campaign:
“I’ve been very concerned about this [...]

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1.) Yes, the next parody is almost entirely finished. I merely have to dot the Is (in Photoshop) and cross the Ts (in a second window I opened – that is how dedicated I am).
2.) I’m not going to post it until after the new year, though, so everybody can see it if they are [...]

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With the Iowa caucuses for Presidential candidacy less than a week away, I’ve gotten one or two emails asking me which candidate I prefer. I can see where my opinion – being a foreign national who does not vote in American elections and all – is dramatically important, of course.
Now, it’s important to preface that [...]

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Many things in 2007 were good. These, unfortunately, are not some of them.
Balls of Fury
On paper, I can understand how this might have been appealing: a combination sports comeback parody/kung fu epic, Enter The Dragon as applied to ping-pong. It even had Christopher Walken, for crying out loud. Unfortunately, it only had Christopher Walken With [...]

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…despite it being the holidays, I do in fact have my weekly TV column up at Torontoist.

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Remember to keep your holidays dope.

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One of two in a series.
Many things in 2007 were good. These are some of the most good bits.
Ratatouille
As has been said elsewhere, it’s really nice that once a year, Pixar puts out a movie, and the best case scenario is that it’s a timeless classic and the worst case scenario is that it’s just [...]

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Via Norman Wilner, I see that Future Shop has released its Boxing Day flyers online, and – cheap jumbo flatscreen televisions aside – he’s right: the real story of the Boxing Day sale is the prices on the next-gen DVD players.
If you’ve been following the news on next-gen DVD technology, you know that right now [...]

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THE MUSIC CRITICISM DIET
Go through any newspaper’s “top (X) albums of the year.” Count how many of them are hip-hop. Do not count Kanye West’s most recent album (it’s too obvious a selection). Then compare to the number of records to which the phrase “indie rock” could be applied. If there’s anything other than the [...]

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The last time I posted something from Craigslist, it was, ahem, not so nice.
This is on the opposite end of the spectrum.

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Everybody I’ve ever known in military service (or who is a gun nut) mostly agrees that the M16 (and its variants, like the Colt C7, which is the Canadian equivalent) is a piece of crap and that the AK47 is a much better rifle, mostly because the latter is the most reliable gun ever made [...]

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The Films Of Will Smith
Will Smith Versus The Prosperous White People
Will Smith Versus The Drug Dealers
Will Smith Versus The Aliens
Will Smith Versus The Other Aliens
Will Smith Versus The Shadowy Conspiracy That Secretly Runs Everything
Will Smith Versus The Giant Steampunk Metal Spider
Will Smith Versus The Crippling Depression Of A Golfer
Will Smith Versus Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier, [...]

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I periodically have to go delete spam comments that show up on old posts (it’s the blog equivalent of dusting, really), and most of these comments are of course porn. However, I just deleted an obvious spam comment which was about Joe Biden receiving the endorsement of a Delaware union.
Firstly, I’m kind of amused that [...]

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The Lakota have cancelled their treaties and seceded from the United States.
The first question that comes to mind, of course, is “can they legally do this under the treaties they have established.” To answer that with any level of competence, I’d actually need to see the treaties in question and particularly the part about withdrawal [...]

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In this week’s issue of Countdown To Final Crisis (official motto: “Redefining “Worse” For Twenty-Three Issues And Counting”), Jimmy Olsen makes out with the second Forager.
Forager is, lest we forget, a humanoid bug. She doesn’t even look particularly sexy in a human way. Not even in a sexy alien way.
Thus, I eagerly await a solicitation [...]

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Faith Erin Hicks, creator of Zombies Calling.
Short story: I stopped in at The Beguiling to check to see what the price for Legion of Super-Heroes: An Eye For An Eye was (and of course ended up buying it), and Faith Erin Hicks was there doing a signing (along with the creator of Dramacon, but [...]

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