So I don’t know if the non-Canadians have been paying attention, but this latest bit of Stephen Harper’s fuckery should probably merit it. Remember this story the next time you complain about your country’s politicians, because there simply isn’t a more pathetic political class in any first-world country than Canada’s. See, the thing is that […]

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Hey. while those of you eligible are nominating Matt’s story for the Aurora Awards, why don’t you nominate that Beatles thing I did? Win-win. Here, I’ll even set up a copypasta for you: “Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer” By Christopher Bird (https://mightygodking.com/index.php/2009/11/10/scenes-from-an-alternate-universe-where-the-beatles-accepted-lorne-michaels-generous-offer) See? Easy-peasy. Nominate me in […]

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In an act of shameless self-promotion, I’ve posted my short story “The Coldest War” (which originally appeared in the February 2009 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction) online here. If you’re a Canadian citizen (not necessarily living in Canada) or a permanent resident, you can follow the handy-dandy links to the Aurora Awards nomination page once […]

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– DC putting the Milestone-verse into basic DC continuity not as an alternate universe but instead deciding to have Dakota be Yet Another Fictional City, like Metropolis and Gotham. This does not work. It doesn’t work on any conceivable level; Icon would not show up in the standard DC universe. The Blood Syndicate would be […]

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I once described myself as an “Artists and Models junkie,” which is not a description you hear very much outside France. We all can name movies that somehow manage to bring together a lot of the things we like, and this 1955 film by Frank Tashlin, which I watched again recently, has always been the […]

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Really clever way to work around Heath Ledger’s death and amazing visuals don’t stop you from noticing that the plot goes all over the place and the movie tends to feel longer than it should; also, Mini-Me gets all the good lines.

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Weekly TV column.

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By my count there were 299 pairs dances amongst the second seasons of the Canadian and Australian So You Think You Can Dance plus the fifth and sixth seasons of the American version. (I also saw a good chunk of So You Think You Can Dance Netherlands, but nothing from it was going to make […]

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I’ve seen this sentiment before, mostly recently expressed here: Now, yes, it’s James Cameron. You’re not there for stellar dialogue, intricate storytelling, or nuance. And you’re not going to get it. But this is exactly why Avatar disappoints so on this score: because James Cameron movies traditionally have all of those things. I mean, The […]

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Fairly irritating editing from director who has done demonstrably better work in this area overcome by excellent performances and dialogue from principal cast; also, Kurrgan!

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(I am busy openin’ presents and eatin’ turkey and so forth.)

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…this fellow over at Boardgamegeek has a son who was born premature, and who has to undergo a fifth (!) surgery, and his insurance isn’t covering everything and he’s out of work. He’s already sold games, but a bunch of other people on BGG – including me – have listed games with proceeds going to […]

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Christmas movies mostly suck. Miracle on 34th Street gives me hives. It’s A Wonderful Life is a depressing story told the wrong way. About half of the Christmas Carol adaptations completely miss the point (the exceptions: Muppet, Disney, Sim and the recent Zemeckis). Even a A Christmas Story gets more treacly and unbearable every year. […]

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Paul O’Brien routinely discusses the vagaries of the British pop charts at his blogging environs (so you see that I am not the only theoretically-a-comics-blogger who indulges in other areas of pop culture some might consider lowbrow), but I thought his synopsis of Rage Against The Machine becoming this year’s Christmas single was especially well-written […]

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I’ve tried many, many times to increase my juggling ability beyond “three balls for about forty seconds” and never been able to manage it.

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