Variety is reporting that Eli Roth, director of such fine films as Hostel and Cabin Fever and Kill Killy McKillerson, has signed on to direct an episode of Heroes. Luckily, due to my massively awesome connections (don’t you wish you had connections?), I have already managed to read the script for his episode, and as […]

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Notmike is right: this truly is the best campaign poster ever.

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Another week, another edition of my TV column at Torontoist.com.

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1944: In nature, there are creatures that can only live at the expense of hosts, from the life of other creatures: Grape vine and vine louse — without a grape vine, it perishes. A tree and mistletoe — without a tree to support it, no mistletoe. The Jew is the parasite among humans. That is […]

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The current issue of Maclean’s features some (cheap) Photoshoppery of Dubya-as-Saddam on the cover, accompanying an article by Patrick Graham about America is now attempting to sign on former Hussein flunkies to smooth into a hopeful era of relatively stable government in Iraq. (Which is not particularly news, but we are on newsmagazine time in […]

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Turns out Stephen Fry just done started hisself up a blog.

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This week: “Incarnate,” a great song by the Watchmen. (No, not those Watchmen, the ones who aren’t the comic book Watchmen.)

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I saw Persepolis a few weeks ago at a press screening for the Toronto International Film Festival, and last night I watched Superman/Doomsday. And really, there are no two works as spiritually akin as these two are: Marjane’s struggle against patriarchal fundamentalism is, dare I say it, exactly like Superman’s struggle against a giant killer […]

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After my law school classes today, I went to four separate comic stores downtown looking for a copy of Dr. Thirteen: Architecture and Morality. Sold out. Everywhere. I even called a couple other stores and they, too, were sold out. One store got ten copies (which, for a trade paperback featuring a… no, not D-list, […]

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I hate International Talk Like A Pirate Day so much it makes my brain want to explode. No, really. I fucking hate it. ITLAP Day is like the equivalent of day camp for people who no longer attend day camp. You remember day camp, right? And you got there, and found a few people you […]

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It’s a commercial for a porn channel in New Zealand. Why would a porn channel need commercials?

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This is quite possibly Sadly, No!’s finest hour.

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This week’s edition of Televisualist, written by me don’t you know, is available for all and sundry to peruse, so peruse away. Yes, I will be doing this every week, now that you ask.

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