(It’s coming out on DVD this year. Not that I’m going to buy it, because I’m really not one of those people who buys old cartoon series on DVD purely for nostalgia value. But it makes me feel better knowing it’s available.)

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The Bush Administration has rightfully taken a lot of flak for being absolutely terrible at diplomacy, but via Mark Kleiman, one is reminded that it is very possible to be worse.

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WHY JUNO WILL WIN BEST PICTURE: Because it’s funny. Because it manages the difficult trick of being funny and serious and heartbreaking all at once, and sometimes simultaneously. Because Diablo Cody is a hot young talent and people want to reward her. Because it’s a comedy and comedies tend to pick up undecided Academy voters […]

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Yesterday, from comments: Why are they hanging the dog? In response, I present two panels from The Cigars of the Pharaoh: The answer is, of course, that people in the Tintinverse just really fucking hate Snowy.

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Sherlock Holmes does not get enough movie love, these days. I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point Sherlock Holmes, one of the most fantastically cinematic characters there is, got relegated to television. The lengthy Jeremy Brett series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes likely had something to do with it, simply because it […]

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Previously, Tintin showed up in America and then there were racist depictions of Native Americans. With those wacky Injuns out of the way, Tintin turns his head back to a powerful conundrum. As we have previously mentioned: Tintin? Is lucky. So Tintin gives chase to Bobby Smiles! And how does he gives chase? Why, only […]

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The world’s largest music collection is for sale. Over three million 45s and LPs, plus three hundred thousand CDs, a hundred grand’s worth of musical memorabilia, proprietary ownership of eight independent record labels and a patented vinyl LP cleaning system. Only three million dollars opening bid! (Keep in mind that if you apply for an […]

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Good romantic comedies are genuinely rare. (This comes from someone who has tried to write a couple, and they both flat-out sucked.) The reason good romantic comedies are rare is because they’re modern-day fairytales, with all that the metaphor implies. Think for a second on the number of terrible revisionist/”original” fairytales you’ve read. (There are […]

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For a mere ten thousand dollars, I will take a polygraph test which will completely prove that John McCain had his gay mansexual way with me and an illegal immigrant in a torrid homo-pervert three-way. Then, he spat on the Bible and affirmed his dual loyalties to the Democratic Party and Osama Bin Laden. Ten […]

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I consider energy issues to be awfully important, so here are some links that you can all read and then you can share with the rest of us your interesting thoughts on this global-emergency-level problem. Firstly: this blog comment: ten reasons why nuclear power is a bad idea. Meltdowns and waste removal are barely even […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist, as usual.

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Condom wrappers from the 1940s.

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“Low-oxygen” areas of ocean off the Pacific Northwest coast are “the new norm.” Caused by global warming, you see – but pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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