31
Oct
Contest of Champions, the first Marvel miniseries, celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary late last year. So I felt it only appropriate to take a look back at it, and see how it might… differ… if published today.
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30
Oct
If you’ve been looking for a good summary of scholarly opinion on the political future of Iraq, you could do a lot worse than this post by Marc Lynch.
Warning: the conclusions derived are, for the most part, not good. But they’re thorough and well-written.
UPDATE: Also, this thorough explanation of whywaterboarding is torture and therefore both [...]
30
Oct
30
Oct
The Frighteners. Six years or so ago, it was slightly more obscure, but those movies with the hobbits in them mean that Peter Jackson’s earlier movies have received more attention. Of course, most of that attention went to Heavenly Creatures, which is excellent and deserves it and that’s all right, but The Frighteners is a [...]
29
Oct
Dozens of lobsters escape a supermarket in Germany.
29
Oct
After a skip week due to dental pain issues (like “being high on codeine for most of a week”), my TV column at Torontoist is once again up and running.
29
Oct
What the fucking hell is up with PvP?
Look, I’m not so naive as to think that the strip is as good as it was three or four years ago, when Kurtz was arguably at his peak, and when the comic was genuinely good. The art’s gotten worse, Kurtz has gotten lazier, and nowadays it’s actually [...]
26
Oct
Your daily “life is getting more like Paranoia all the damn time” link of the day:
FEMA sets up fake press conference where all the “reporters” were in fact FEMA staffers asking pre-planned questions.
(I’m not even kidding a little. This is exactly the sort of thing you would expect to find in a Paranoia supplement, except [...]
26
Oct
#32 in an increasingly-innumerate series of thirty:
One of the things that fascinates me about Legion as a concept is that it is one thousand years in the future, and the variance and similarity with which the DC Universe of “today” would reflect upon its future one millennium later would by necessity at least reflect the [...]
25
Oct
From JLA/Hitman:
One of the things I like about Garth Ennis is that, as a writer, he steadfastly refuses to write slow, lazy arcs around potentially offensive subtopics. What we have here is a fairly subtle and just simply well-written example of this.
The subtopic in question here is “Superman is a Christian.” (And, given that [...]
25
Oct
McDonald’s foods as pizza toppings.
The horrific thing is that, even though I do valiantly try and usually manage to eat in a healthy manner, I found myself wondering what this would be like with A&W or Wendy’s.
24
Oct
Sorry for the dead-time on the site; in between extremely major dental issues, not one but indeed both computers flaming out and requiring repairs, and everything else I normally have to deal with, this past week has been hectic. I’ve got a lot of stuff hopefully getting this site back up to speed in the [...]
19
Oct
Wisdom teeth being removed. Back in operation hopefully by Tuesday.
18
Oct
No, seriously: Turkey invading Kurdish Iraq is very, very, very bad.
On a scale of 1 to 10, it is Bad. It is a recipe for Bad Sandwich, preceded by Bad Salad and finishing with Bad Cobbler. It’s not Strong Bad, it’s just Bad Bad. It’s Baddosity-level is plus-twelve. Cinematically speaking, this is a Gigli-equivalent [...]
18
Oct
Blame Church.
17
Oct
So let me get this straight:
1.) we have discovered another, Earth-like planet, potentially capable of supporting life;
2.) it orbits a red sun;
3.) it’s a larger planet, and the gravity there is stronger than it is here;
4.) it is twenty light years away, so it could have exploded nineteen years ago and we would only know [...]
17
Oct
Americans shouldn’t cosplay.
17
Oct
Mike Smith will no doubt groan because he thinks I’m obsessed with health care policy, but I actually received this email this morning. (Admittedly, from someone who wanted to know how true it was.)
And the bit about family doctors is probably more true than the debunker gives credit for – twenty percent of the population [...]
16
Oct
I have taken, in my time, a lot of grief for unapologetically loving Posse. I am not sure as to why.
It certainly can’t be because the movie isn’t entertaining. With a wealth of excellent performances from Mario Van Peebles, Big Daddy Kane, Tiny Lister, Billy Zane (as the crazy evil white dude) and Stephen [...]
16
Oct
The smallest house in Toronto is up for sale. If you’ve got $179,000 handy, it could be yours!
In all seriousness, one can joke about the size of it, but it’s roughly equivalent in size to a small condo, and you get a front yard and a back yard. It’s not even a starter home, but [...]
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