I don’t often pass along my work at TheCourt.ca here, but now that I am Managing Editor of the site and therefore incredibly important it seems only proper to pass along my commentary on that case where the young Jehovah’s Witness sued the government for not being allowed to die and that case where the […]

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Holy shit that’s awesome.

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The Dummy isn’t handicapped – he’s handi-capable! Or possibly handi-killifying. I don’t care what anybody says: you have to admire a deformed midget who takes a look in the mirror and says “I think I can make this work for me,” and then doesn’t go into a life of circus work. The Dummy figured out […]

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Your judges this week are Nigel, Mary, and L’il C, and dare I say all the jokes made at the expense of L’il C’s vocabulary are really annoying and pretty patronizing to boot? Top three guys: contemporary. Sonya’s routine here was clever and danced well by all three; I think Shorty got a little more […]

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Now, four years later, the fact that Jason Todd sucks has once again become a fact of nigh-universal agreement. His apparent death in Batman: Battle For The Cowl was widely cheered: whatever time in the sun the character might have had was long since past. Jason Todd sucks. Everybody knows this. But they didn’t have […]

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Hey, remember when I did that thing making fun of people commenting on the Internet about a given bit of news? Torontoist asked me to do it again after the end of the Toronto city strike. So I did.

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When you need a photographer, you can’t just settle for some down-on-his-luck freelancer. You need the best: someone with the composition skill of Ansel Adams and the balls and timing of Eddie Adams. You know who you go to when you need the best, don’t you? Damn straight – you hire Rex the motherfucking Wonder […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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ITEM! Marvel Comics have the rights to Marvelman! Oh my god, how amazing is that? Marvel, Marvelman, it’s like God intended this to be! Okay, so maybe Marvel doesn’t necessarily yet have the rights to the Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman stories that are the only reason anybody other than the most devoted of British […]

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LIKED – The Hurt Locker is really, really good; tense action sequences combined with an outstanding performance by Jeremy Renner make for a goddamn fantastic movie. (Of course, the movie’s best sequence is the sniper battle – not in small part because that is when Ralph Fiennes and Guy Pearce and David Morse show up […]

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“Along with showing several clips from the first episode, the voice actors did a reading of a scene written just for the panel. It surrounds Doom’s quest to acquire a convention-exclusive ‘My Little Pony’ collectible at Comic-Con.”

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A nifty essay about people and toilets.

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(From a 1985 issue of Ebony. Looks kind of like Billy Dee Williams, doesn’t he?) Top comment: I wonder if they thought popped collars would still be in style or if they thought they’d be back in style. — dan

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