LIKED – Pixar films, at this point, are either an A+ (Wall-E), an A (Ratatouille) or an A- (Cars). On this scale, Up is a solid A – not quite reaching the peaks of Pixar but definitely not one of their “lesser” efforts (where “lesser” is something just about any other filmmakers would kill for). […]

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The SmartFish plane.

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I never, ever want to see dancin’ Sex on my television ever again. Hey, remember season two? When you said you didn’t want psycho fame-whores on your dancing show? What happened to that? Why do I now have to watch not only Sex, but also a subpar Dmitri the Lover wannabe jumping up and down? […]

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Flash Comics #1 was an auspicious comic. Of course, it was the very first appearance of Jay Garrick as the Flash, but it was also the first appearance of Hawkman. That’s a heckuva comic right there: the Flash and Hawkman, both appearing for the first time. But wait! On top of that, it was also […]

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When I was seven my mom started sending me to day camp. Day camp was like the for-cheapies version of summer camp – and my mother, who was a zen master of thrift, loved a good deal. She liked it because you could send one’s kids to day camp on a selected set of weeks, […]

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…Andrew Wheeler wrote this particularly vicious bit of satire.

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…the American Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that police may question a defendant without a lawyer present. Naturally, the freedom-loving conservatives on the Court saw no worry about the fears of the tyrannical state this time around (in a police powers case? Shocking). Antonin Scalia, well-known as that brilliant jurisprudential mind,1 wrote in his decision that […]

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FLAPJACKS: Hey, log on to your internet. I want to show you something. ME: Why do you never just use the internet at your house? Is it wolves again? FLAPJACKS: Sadly, my house has become the primary conflict site for a very small but extremely intense ethnic conflict. If I surfed the net there, I […]

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Top comment: Elfen Inferno, Princess of Incineration, locked in combat with her archnemesis, Esophagus Violator. His dyed eyebrows are the source of his unholy power. –KDBryan Also: I was going to go with Reverse Gravit-hair-a and her husband, Sir No Longer Appearing in this Comic. — Zifnab

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1.) My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. 2.) My article this week for The Court is about R. v. Middleton, a sentencing case. Be forewarned the topic matter is so dry I nearly fell asleep twice while writing it. 3.) Finally, I made a rare PODCASTING APPEARANCE on Hour 42 yesterday, wherein I […]

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Top comment: How do you masturbate poorly? Do you just not finish? After you fail to masturbate would you look at yourself in the mirror and say “You’re just a fucking tease.” Can I take 20 to masturbate? — Lister Sage

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– This collection of business cards of 1980s Chicago street gangs is pretty cool: – “Upcycling” wooden pallets into furniture (and even a house). – “He-men flee instead of pee” is probably the best headline of the week. – And this article about the legal ramifications of porn parodies is certainly interesting (and mostly SFW). […]

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LIKED – The “sneak preview” of Glee. Although I think airing the premiere episode of a series Fox doesn’t plan to air for another three months is, how shall I say this, idiotic and a programming strategy that only Fox could come up with, this was one of the best pilots I’ve seen in a […]

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Up at Torontoist, I engage in a debate about road investment versus transit investment. The winner? Anybody who cares about such issues! And also me.

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SYTYCD has gotten more adventurous with genre during its evolution as a show, verging out tentatively into various “world” and cultural areas of dance. Of course, these are mostly just dips of big toe in the proverbial water compared to the prevalence of the “big three” genres, and there have been as many missteps as […]

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