So I’m at my friend’s place and her daughter is showing off her candy haul to me excitedly and explaining how much she got of each type of candy (including an ungodly number of Coffee Crisps, but if you’re going to get a lot of one type of fun-sized bar, you might as well get […]

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So on the Twitters, people are reacting to news of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries’ divorce rather predictably: e.g. they are following the example of George Takei and snarking about how brief marriages such as these demean the institution of marriage way more than letting gay people marry does. (Memo to George Takei: Whenever Perez […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. (And how come Curtis Armstrong isn’t more in demand as a character actor, anyway?)

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On thinking about it, I think that part of the fun I have with fandom is coming up with crazy theories. I don’t mean just crazy speculation. I know some people get a charge out of watching the first two episodes of Season Six and thinking,  “Hmm, I wonder if River Song is going to […]

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Wolverine and the X-Men #1 is a good comic. It is in many ways close to the verge of being a great comic. But it isn’t great. What works about the comic? The school as fantastical setting: the Jean Grey School For Higher Learning (a nice touch on the name, incidentally) is very plainly the […]

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NOTE: This was the third of these, written back for my Livejournal back when I was still on Livejournal. However, it does not appear to have been web-archived, and besides, I might as well rewrite it now. So this is a revamped version of the original article. Have you ever jacked in? Have you ever […]

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MGK: So it turns out that the people who are putting out Anonymous are also encouraging teachers to run lessons about how Shakespeare did not, in fact, write Shakespeare. FLAPJACKS: I have no idea what that sentence is about. MGK: Okay. So, you know Roland Emmerich? FLAPJACKS: Yes. MGK: He has directed a movie called […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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So apparently Joss Whedon directed an adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing while nobody was looking, and stuffed it, unsurprisingly, with Whedon alumni. Could be good, could be not; with Whedon I always reserve judgement until I see it, because Whedon’s stuff swings wildly along the quality arc for me. I also tend to reserve […]

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So Chris Sims was going around Twitter asking for people who wanted to interview him about his new comic, Dracula the Unconquered, for which Sims has decided you should all pay actual money to read. And I thought, “well, if Sims wants people to spend money on his comic, then it is only proper that […]

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And so with a bit of sorrow, tempered by immense joy and constant anticipation, we bid a fond adieu to another season of Doctor Who. The plots have been duly twisted, the revelations duly revealed, the jokes laughed at and the scares screamed at. (Well, not literally. Unless you’re my five-year-old daughter, who has gotten […]

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