Oct

That’s Brisk, Baby

Posted by MGK Published in Economics, Politics, The Internets

For those of you wanting a cold-as-ice pessimistic geopolitical and economic analysis of current U.S. economic policy – and I’m sure there’s ever so many of you! – I would direct you to this screed the Cunning Realist posted last week. Well worth reading. Also, somewhat depressing.

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Oct

Another Week, Another Blogwhoring

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

…and another edition of my TV column at Torontoist.

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Oct

More On That Bad Webcomics Site

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, Writering

Someone forwarded me this link because, I dunno, having posted once about Your Webcomic Is Bad makes me an authority on it or something, I don’t know. (Memo to entire world: if you want a ton of unsolicited email from total strangers asking your opinion about practically everything under the sun? Start a blog. It […]

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Oct

The Obscure Legislative Analysis Post That Is Necessary And Quite Possibly Dull

Posted by MGK Published in Politics

This Wednesday, Ontarians are going to the polls to decide whether Dalton McGuinty or John Tory is the least depressing fuckup. However, this particular election is of interest because in addition to the usual festival of dull that is a provincial election, there’s also a referendum to change our entire system of legislative government. This […]

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Oct

Is It Cavetastic?

Posted by MGK Published in TV

Over at Dead Things on Sticks, they wanna know why everybody hates Cavemen. They rather liked the “new” version of the pilot, apparently, which changed a whole lot from the unaired pilot (it was a complete reshoot), and think it to be much better than most of the season’s other new sitcom offerings. (This is […]

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Oct

T-U-N-E-S-B-L-O-G, Find Out What It Means To Me

Posted by MGK Published in It's The Youtube, Muzak

This week, I am in a bit of a trashy Eurodancish mood again, so here is “You’re A Superstar,” by Love Inc., the band formed by two of Canada’s most obnoxious deejays.

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Oct

When In Doubt

Posted by MGK Published in Politics

So, if you follow American political news, Hillary Clinton is at this point all but decided as the Democratic nominee for the 2008 presidential election, once again proving that there is no election that the Democrats cannot do their level best to fuck up. However, there is still, I would argue, one last move that […]

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Oct

When You Go Looking For WTF…

Posted by MGK Published in TV, WTF

I’ve been trying to find myself a copy of the three volumes of Japanarama by Too Far East Productions for quite some time now. They have a site, of course, but it’s been more or less incommunicado for a couple of years. This is a shame, because sitting around with Baldguy and Jon and Toby […]

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Oct

Look! Crap You Don’t Need!

Posted by MGK Published in Nothing Else Fit

The Shenis, a 12″ long golden phallus not meant for use as a sex toy but instead so that women can pee standing up. The Shenis costs $27.45 USD, including shipping and handling. Alternately, if you are a woman and really, really feel the need to pee standing up, you could always go to your […]

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Oct

Terrible Stock Characters, #1 (in a series)

Posted by MGK Published in Writering

THE RETAIL MANAGER/ASSISTANT MANAGER WHO IS WAY TOO INTO HIS JOB Hey! Are you a screenwriter, struggling to emphasize how Important your protagonist is in the grand scheme of things? Then you need a gung-ho retail manager (or assistant manager). Nothing illustrates importance like somebody who’s really into retail, because retail, as we all know, […]

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Oct