Hola, amigos! It is once again that time of the week where I, El Tyrano Magnifico, the greatest of all luchador lawyers, will read and examine your pleas and questions with the detail demanded of a true champion. Much as the time I fought El Hijo del Santo in a Five-Way Mexican Dance of Death, […]

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Serious question: does anybody actually like Major Force? I mean, yes, I get he’s a villain, but everybody has their favorite villains. Mine is Lex Luthor. Lots of people love the Joker or Dr. Doom. And there’s always going to be one or two holdouts for the lesser lights, somebody who really loves the Gambler […]

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People talk about Golden Age Wonder Woman panels being disturbing, but really, those are nothing. This just makes me feel unclean. (from Dixie Dugan #2)

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Your guest judge is an empty chair with “Paula Abdul” on it. The new stage sucks. There’s no voting this week. HOW MANY MORE WAYS CAN THEY FIND TO BE WRONG? Channing and Philip: jive. This was mediocre leaning towards bad, particularly in the case of Philip, who frankly should be better at jive: he […]

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I don’t generally go posting pictures of myself on this blog, but I am making an exception in this case because Karen gives good photo.

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ME: What now? FLAPJACKS: Did you see this? Some crazy guy put together a replica of a vintage first class airplane cabin in his garage. ME: Because he’s crazy? FLAPJACKS: You just spent actual money on old board games from the 1960s like, last week. ME: You can play those. FLAPJACKS: And he can play […]

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THREE EXAMPLES OF SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE‘S BRILLIANT “FIX WHAT ISN”T BROKEN” STRATEGY 1.) The new stage, which is large, impersonal, with a dark background so the dancers tend to fade into the background if not lit exactly right (and it’s hard to light constantly moving people exactly right) and difficult for the […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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A pretty strong effort from Terry Pratchett this go-around, in part because he’s mostly left his usual formula behind in a way. Which is appropriate for what’s an interesting combination of sports novel and nontraditional hero’s journey, while still part of Pratchett’s overall continuing Discworld metastory of a fantasy-world Industrial Revolution. Unseen Academicals has no […]

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Blake and Luther, unsurprisingly, are judges for top 4 night. All four: cabaret. Bland Tony-n-Mel ™ routine that was pretty straightforward and therefore should have been pretty easy for the dancers to execute, which makes Everett’s weak performance here all the more glaring. Vincent and Everett: hip-hop. Everett kicked it up a notch towards the […]

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Okay, so Santa Claus is a trucker, and he asked Spidey for help. This is because Trucker Santa wants to make sure that kids everywhere get the chance to buy a fishing rod (and it has to be the right fishing rod, so the kids need their dad’s help, because no way would Mom know […]

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