On the rare occasions I eat at McDonald’s, I almost always get the same thing: two regular hamburgers and a medium fries. It’s what I like at McDonald’s. The bigger hamburgers, I have discovered, after much consumption thereof and time spent actually tasting the food, are nasty and I do not like them. And large […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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The old standby: the movie quote quiz. Full points for guessing movie title, actor, and character, so a possible three points per flick, up till question #34, which is a trick question and therefore worth one point. NO FAIR USING GOOGLE. If I find out you cheated and used Google (I am not sure how […]

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Truck full of fire extinguishers catches fire.

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#2,491,017: Spaniards, when they are excitedly celebrating a football victory, will play impromptu games of “toreadoro” with oncoming bicyclists as the bull, themselves as the matador and the Spanish (or sometimes Canadian) flag as the cape. #2,491,018: If by doing this, a Spaniard causes you to crash your bicycle into something hard and unpleasant when […]

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I’ll just let Emma Donoghue say what needs to be said, as she was so eloquent on the CBC earlier this month: In Ireland, it’s a constant fight for basic civil rights. Chris wouldn’t be recognized as the parent of my children and every day would be a struggle. Here in Canada, though, I can […]

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Everybody else has already said it and probably more eloquently, but: if you have not already done so, go see WALL-E as quickly as humanly possible. It is probably the best picture Pixar have ever made. Let me repeat that to make sure it sinks in: this is the best movie that Pixar Studios have […]

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Was anybody else hoping that Blizzard would, I dunno, release an entirely new game rather than going back to the same old wells again and again and again? I mean, they’ve got some of the best creative staff in gaming, period, both from a design/coding and story/art perspective. Surely they could manage something a bit […]

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People in charge of regulating domains open up a veritable shitload of new domain types.

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So Poptown and Sims and Church are busy competing for the “most 90s comic book cover ever,” and I think I have a contender right here. I would like to make the additional point that DarkChylde more perfectly encapsulates the 90s comic experience than any of their entries, because as a title it lurched from […]

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Dear god: please give Mary Murphy laryngitis forever and ever. Thank you in advance. Kherington and Twitch: hip-hop. Passable, although as usual Kherington’s problems (most notably the Smile That Never Goes Away and more than one or two points where she just wasn’t hitting the beats hard enough) are glossed over in favour of Twitch’s […]

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Okay, I know that Tomahawk is DC’s Revolutionary War hero (complete with vaguely NAMBLAesque sidekick situation, just so you know he’s a DC property), but even so, the idea of a dastardly villain who is a British officer is still kind of comical. It’s totally a mindset thing; you have to initially shake off the […]

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There’s been a recent spate of right-wing blogs all saying the same thing: “Now, I’m not racist, but how come all those small-town Iowans are so much more supportive and self-reliant than those big city New Orleans folks were during their disaster?” Examples range from Tigerhawk’s relatively polite, only implied comparison, to Girl On The […]

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