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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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