Originally written October 9, 2004. SCENE: A STUDIO BIGWIG and THREE JUNIOR EXECUTIVES are sitting at a table. BIGWIG: All righty. Next on the docket – Fat Albert. Why haven’t we made a movie of Fat Albert yet? FIRST JUNIOR: You know, I was just asking myself that the other day. SECOND JUNIOR: I long […]

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KIRK: Why are people still out with their families so late? STEVE: It’s the CNE [Canadian National Exhibition, for those not in the know] – they’re just getting back. KIRK: That started? ME: Yeah, last week. BEN: Man, I should go to that. ME: Ah, the only reason to go is for those little donuts. […]

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Starter triathlon time: 59:32. About ten minutes for the swim, twenty-two for the cycling, twenty-four for the run, the rest was changeover. I was aiming for under an hour, which put me in the bottom half of the middle of the pack. Mostly because of the run. (How do people run for fun? I don’t […]

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Originally written May 5th, 2006. NOTE: This really happened. SCENE: Silver Snail Comics, where it is Free Comic Book Day. Enter CHRIS, bearing a cheapo Stikfas blister pack and a bunch of free comics. THE ASSISTANT SALESPERSON waits patiently. ASSISTANT: And that will be seven dollars. CHRIS: (hands it over generously) ASSISTANT: Would you like […]

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Church documents crimes against humanity.

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SCENE. A bar. With drinks. And law students entering the Osgoode Hall class of 2010. PROSPECTIVE LAW STUDENT: God, I am so sick of being called an “untouchable.” ME: Those Hindus and their castes. Wacky. PROSPECTIVE: No, I mean the Friedman thing. ME (who knows what he’s talking about, but is enjoying his Strongbow, so […]

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Friday is the tunesblogging time, and this week it’s one of the great Kim Mitchell’s last hits, “America.” Which drew a lot of hubbub at the time for being an anti-American screed, when it really isn’t – it’s anti-corruption and definitely a very proletarian song (and video), but it’s not anti-American. “Born In the USA” […]

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A lengthy and well-written apology to/celebration of Michael Turner. It’s good to know that Michael Turner has succeeded in overcoming serious adversity, maintained his personal integrity and remained a decent human being, and become genuinely successful by creating art which I think completely sucks.

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Old news to some of you, no doubt, but there’s a preview of the New Frontier animated movie, for those who care about such things.

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James Joyner’s take on Rudy Guiliani’s foreign policy essay has to be read. (The essay itself is perhaps some of the most amazingly stupid claptrap ever written by any presidential candidate ever. Yes, including Dan Quayle.) EDIT TO ADD: Also, Jim Henley, whose take left me gasping for breath.

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Hannah Llewellyn very kindly emailed me the American Seeds ‘shop after I mentioned yesterday that I’d lost it in the great Livejournal burnup, so I felt it only proper to present it here again. Now, I’d also like to point out that when I lost my Livejournal, with it I lost an Infiniti FX convertible. […]

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Came across somebody on the blogotubes complaining (“No!” you exclaim, “people complain on the Internet?”) about this post, specifically the part where the author rants about stupid made-up fancy-dancy fantasy names like Silvuirielalala Tinyhands and the like. The complaint? “Well, Tolkien did it.” People. J.R.R. Tolkien was a actual honest to god linguist. He invented […]

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Kevin Drum quotes from the Atlantic Monthly‘s current bio-piece on Karl Rove – but it’s really a George Bush anecdote from Dick Armey (no latte-sipping liberal, to say the least): “For all the years he was president,” Armey told me, “Bill Clinton and I had a little thing we’d do where every time I went […]

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I had honestly thought this lost along with many of the other parody images previously shown on the old Livejournal (the loss of the American Seeds advertisement in particular stings), but it’s amazing what turns up sometimes in an anonymous email, so thanks to whoever saved it. (Click for larger version where the small text […]

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