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So the nominations for the 2009 Bloggies have begun, and although I think the odds of winning anything are relatively low, I’d certainly like to try getting nominated in any of the following categories:
Best Canadian
Most Humourous
Best Written
Best Kept-Secret
So if you’re willing to go to the trouble of nominating me (and at least two other blogs, […]

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So I’ve gotten a bit of mail about CUPE Ontario’s decision to recommend a “ban” on Israeli academics in Canadian universities, most likely because I’m currently attending Osgoode Hall Law School, which is at York, which is the subject of a prolonged strike on the part of CUPE.
And… well, what is there to say, really? […]

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John McCain
Smoothies that come in a bottle
Skrulls
Youtube videos where the editor takes a metal or gangsta rap song and has animated characters or Muppets “sing” the words
Pretending to care about Jennifer Aniston
“TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!”
Heidi and Spencer
Pomengranate anything
Scarlett Johannson’s musical ambitions
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Critical analysis of Grand […]

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…thing that was awesome about 2008: “Propane Nightmares” by Pendulum.

The thing I like about this - well. Obviously it’s a great song, but on top of that…
See, when I originally went into film a long time ago, part of it was because I loved - and was good at - constructing trailers in my head. […]

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“Pork and Beans” by Weezer and “So What” by Pink. 2008 was a really great year for “fuck you” songs, as the general frustration of the world with stupid bullshit finally hit its boiling point, and these were two of the best. Weezer’s song was “Fuck you, I’m a nerd” and Pink’s was “Fuck you, […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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2008 was a year that produced many singular and outstanding creative works. These were not those.
Waltz with Bashir. One of the most overrated films of the year, the recipient of far too many movie-critic blowjobs to count. Admittedly, the idea of a documentary presented entirely in rotoscopic animation is novel, but one novel idea doesn’t […]

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So Matt Smith is the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who.
Does anybody else, upon watching the BBC video, think that producers wanted to/were told to get someone “David Tennant-y”? Because that’s what Matt Smith seems like - a low-rent version of David Tennant, and worse one who doesn’t seem to innately understand the […]

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EVEN WHEN BATMAN IS A MOUSE, HE WILL STILL HAVE A PLAN TO KICK YOUR ASS.

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JANINE (a friend): So, FYI: Down’s Syndrome jokes? Not the new hotness.
ME: I had heard.
JANINE: Man, did I ever get burned by that fad.
ME: That’s what you get for thinking Dane Cook is funny.
JANINE: Cystic fibrosis? Not funny either.
ME: Lupus, on the other hand, is always funny. Say it with me. Luuuuuuuuuupus.
JANINE: You know what’s […]

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SUV sales as share of total auto market are rising.
Because gas prices will never be high again!

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Igor Panarin’s breakup scenario for the United States has been getting play in the media lately. It’s not particularly new; I remember reading about Panarin’s crackpot bullshit a couple of years ago. But it’s still extremely stupid. Seriously, take a look at this map:

That is some seriously stupid crap right there.
Okay, first off - the […]

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Duke Nukem Forever tops Wired’s Annual Vaporware List this year again, and seriously, I have to ask: who gives a shit about Duke Nukem? I mean, really?
I’m not just talking about “giving a shit about Duke Nukem” in the sense that it has been years and a lot since Duke Nukem 3D came out (what […]

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My weekly TV column is up at not-quite-dead-yet Torontoist, which is also undergoing a site reformat. And lemme tell you, this week was a doozy.

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BEST PICTURE:
In order of likelihood:
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Milk
The Dark Knight
Wall-E
I think Slumdog and Button are locks - they both have a shitload of critical acclaim, a lot of awards and award nominations, and most importantly they’re getting award nominations at the right time (the Golden Globe and Screen Actors’ Guild award noms […]

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…I can’t help but get oogy when I read something like “scientists plan to ignite a tiny, man-made star.”
Look, I know how fusion energy theoretically is supposed to work and I know that the “star” will be tiny and not innately self-sustaining. But even so, scientists really have to come up with a better way […]

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Super Mario 63. Quite possibly the best Flash version of a Mario game I have ever seen.
(Seriously, I will never be able to understand Flash game developers working at this level of intrinsic detail. “I am going to spend two years of my life coding a game that can be played for weeks straight, but […]

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And I was wondering, “man, why don’t they just call this show Gold-Digging Whores and be done with it?”
Seriously - when the one girl started complaining that the “millionaire” with the perfectly nice apartment didn’t “live like a millionaire” because he wasn’t spending all his money on, I don’t know, gold-plated sofas or some shit […]

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