A scientific examination of stuff white people like.

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When last we left Tintin, he was being ushered into a gangster den that he thought was very possibly a police station, because Tintin is a fucking idiot. Anyway, the gangster, Bobby Smiles (the “number two gangster in America”), offers Tintin a lot of money to kill Al Capone. Tintin says “heavens no, I came […]

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As this site has recently gotten StumbledUpon and Dugg a bit in the last week or so, I felt it apropos to put up a sort of semi-site-index page in my Klassics bar, available here. Regular readers: this probably affects you very little, unless you want to go back through the archives and see if […]

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So people sometimes get on me for being too critical. “You critic,” they say, “you don’t like anything and you hate all things and your soul is a black void, incapable of feeling joy.” And this is just not true! For example, I love funnel cake. Funnel cake is delicious, especially with whipped cream and […]

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Obama: “Hey, guess what: I’m a liberal, and you fucking love it, don’t you, you independent voters and crossover Republicans. Oh, yes you do. You know it. That’s right, cheer me as I promise to be explicitly pro-labour. Cheer for daddy. Uh huh.” McCain: “It doesn’t matter whether the Democrats choose Clinton or Obama, because […]

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This is the most awesome thing in god knows how long.

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I recently got a couple of the new collected editions of the Tintin books that Little, Brown are putting out – nice thick hardcovers, three Tintin books collected per volume. They’re a bit smaller than normal Tintin books, but Herge’s art is still gorgeous and easy to appreciate even at the slightly reduced size. But, […]

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Number of times “fuck” normally uttered during morning wakeup ritual: 0-1. Number of times “fuck” normally uttered during morning wakeup ritual when it is really really cold and the building’s radiators are doing an inadequate job of warming it and the hot water isn’t working properly so you have to have a lukewarm shower: 237.

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It’s not often I come across any creative work of which I am immediately jealous – most times I just admire things that I think are good intensely, rather than actually wishing I had created them because they are just that good. The last time, I think, was “Holiday” by Green Day, for which I […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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From a political blog’s comments after the Maine caucuses tonight: Any word on the percent of african-americans voting for obama? In Maine? I’m guessing Fred and Brenda voted for Obama, and Joe voted for Clinton.

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Well, it turns out the combination of global warming and human decimation of fish populations has led to a population explosion of the deadliest creature on the planet. Oh, and they’re migrating towards land masses. See also: the “rise of slime,” AKA the toxic fireweed thriving under warmer-water conditions. This would be great news except […]

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