A few whiles back I did a list of “reasons I will love comics forever,” which were mostly awesome panels. I haven’t had a lot of those lately; there just aren’t as many moments in comics these days that make me sit up and go “yeeeEEAAAAAAH!” I don’t know if it’s because they’ve changed or [...]

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1.) FanExpo is growing so fast it’s honestly hard to believe. Five years ago this was just another shitty corp-con where James Marsters was the headliner. This year? Stan Lee. Nimoy and Shatner. Full editorial presence from DC and Marvel (and promises from both that next year FanExpo will have full portfolio review as per [...]

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Your guest hosts are Luther (again – is he permanent now? I hope not) and Mia Michaels. Enough with the Americans already! Bring back Karen Kain! Bree and Edgar: dancehall. Second week Bree and Edgar have gotten an urban style, second week it’s been very good, second week Bree has gotten a lot of praise [...]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Yesterday, I was busy with this. This weekend I will be at Fan Expo here in Toronto. I’ll mostly be demonstrating board games (in the gaming area, natch) as a volunteer all weekend, because I don’t really care about panels and don’t need that much time to go shopping. If anybody wants to drop by [...]

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BunnyM asks: I’d love to hear your thoughts on assorted nerd musicians, who you think works, who doesn’t, and perhaps why. I’m sure we’ve all heard of Jonothan Coulton, and most will have heard of MC Frontalot, but what other performers/bands are out there that might be good? This is big in my mind at [...]

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So far too many people have asked me to do a post about the “ground zero mosque” controversy, and using that phrase just makes me feel irritated because it’s not at ground zero and it’s not a mosque, but using the phrase at least means everybody knows what you’re talking about. Here’s my problem: I [...]

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I know this season has a buttload of contemporary dancers (nine girls and seven guys out of 22), and this is something I have complained about previously when discussing SYTCYD. On the bright side, though, Canadian dancers crosstrain more than average. So there is that, at least. Kirsten and Jera: contemporary. This was a perfectly [...]

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…well, the ones that weren’t to music by Warner Music Group, anyway. which is a shame because Warner’s Youtube boycott kills most of the great ballroom and also Justin Johnson’s mindblowing tap solo. (That having been said: trust me, watch to the end. The last one in particular is mindblowingly awesome.) JR (second) reminds me [...]

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LazyCustomizer: I’d like to read your opinion of how the Penguin would fit in the Nolan Batman films, and whether you believe Nolan’s determination not to use the Penguin is wise or closing himself off from a potentially interesting story. Yes and no. On the one hand, I share Tim O’ Neil’s opinion that the [...]

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So here is the thing. I have never owned a smartphone, mostly on the basis that they are fairly expensive, and although the apps and so forth are appealing, I previously could not in good conscience say that I desperately needed one. This is why my cellphone is a cheap little Nokia that looks like [...]

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