Somebody wrote a stupid, stupid column, and Torontoist asked me to tear it apart, because that is what I does.

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Yesterday, esteemed Pajiboverlord Dustin Rowles put together his list of 80s movies that have aged badly. Unfortunately, due to trolling the readership including The Goonies on that list, it is my sad duty to report that Dustin is in critical condition at Our Pajiba of Mercy Hospital, due to wounds that, according to his doctors, […]

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Your guest judges are Blake and Luther, which just feels less special somehow. Tonight we have one hour of show, because CTV sucks ass in ways I cannot begin to describe. Melanie and Vincent: paso doble. This was extremely strong: Melanie is really good at just about everything and so is Vincent and predictably they […]

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Rotten Tomatoes’ “100 Worst Films of the Decade.” The ones I have seen are bolded. The ones I have seen and don’t think deserve to be in the bottom 100 are also italicized. 100 Whiteout (2009) 99 Glitter (2001) 98 Cheaper By the Dozen 2 (2005) 97 Boat Trip (2003) 96 All About Steve (2009) […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. I’ve also done another of those “hey look at these comments” posts , this time about David Miller announcing he won’t run for a third term as Mayor of Toronto. And if you haven’t read this Leonard Pierce special, you should.

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Not too long ago, I jokingly argued in favour of politicians being killed before they reach their natural expiration date. It might not have been a particularly good joke–that was certainly the opinion of a number of commenters–but it was a joke. I’d hope anyone reading it would be able to divine the post’s humourous […]

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ONE ME: And we have teams! FLAPJACKS: Harlem Globetrotters! ME: Christian country singers! FLAPJACKS: Christian gay brothers! ME: Christians dating since they were little kids! FLAPJACKS: Did they say they were Christians? ME: They met during a game of tetherball. Jesus played tetherball. FLAPJACKS: I don’t think that’s quite right. ME: I was raised Catholic. […]

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LIKED – Glee continues to impress, but here is the weird thing: in the United States it is doing slightly sub-average numbers, but in Canada it is a runaway hit getting a boffo huge audience. Someone has to explain how that works, beyond the simple and obvious truth that we clearly have better taste in […]

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According to the BBC, we can expect more spiders than usual this autumn. “It is this time of year that people become more aware of them – it is the silly season for spiders. The garden spiders are getting fatter for laying eggs and bundles of tiny spiders start hatching.”  — John Partridge, secretary of […]

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So I am watching The Good Wife which is a TV show that is all “what if a cheating politician’s wife had to be a lawyer and defend innocent people from the electric chair?” (Except that that’s not quite right because she is not defending from the electric chair. If lawyers had to do that […]

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Why has DC not thrown whatever money is necessary to get Garth Ennis to write an ongoing Sgt. Rock series?

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Your guest judges are Mia “America’s Stacey Tookey” Michaels and Rex Harrington. Tara-Jean and Everett: musical theatre (but actually tap). As impressed as I am that a tap routine – and really, this was just about entirely a tap routine – made it onto a So You Think You Can Dance stage, the partnering portions […]

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