GREEN LANTERN PROBLEM: Really stupid costume nobody would actually want to wear in real life. SOLUTION: “The Jack T. Chance”: Green Lantern symbol (which is cool) as badge on regular clothing. CAPTAIN AMERICA PROBLEM: Getting international audiences to watch movie without sneering. SOLUTION: Plot features Captain America finding out about dastardly plot within American government […]

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I theatre-hopped to see it and still feel like I should ask for my money back.

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I’m working on a long-form project which involves gorillas (I’m not really able to say more at this point), and during my research I was reminded of this. Gorillas are gentle, shy creatures who would almost always rather run than fight, and they’re some of our closest relatives in the world; we know they’re intelligent, […]

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…although volunteer-driven CG movies have a long history of not succeeding, I can’t help but hope that Iron Sky manages to make a go of it.

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Someone on Ezra Klein’s blog recently linked to this post by a Hillary Clinton supporter, detailing why Hillary supporters should not support Barack Obama. And, well. Here we go.

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Every Thursday, mightygodking.com returns to the pages of Who’s Who, the classic 1980s DC comic book encyclopedia of their characters. Every week, a character shall be judged on the only scale scientific enough that matters: the Rex The Wonder Dog scale of fantasticosity. There honestly isn’t that much to say about Carapax, because there’s sort […]

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Professional photographers recreate children’s drawings.

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I continue to spawn and recreate myself elsewhere on the internets; now and for the foreseeable future, I’m a senior contributing editor at TheCourt.ca, Osgoode Hall Law School’s group blog covering the decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada, where I’ll be posting once a week (at least for the summer). Granted, my writing there […]

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At the tail end of my last I Should Write The Legion, I promised that this one would feature the “biggest badass” in the Legion, and the guesses were predictable: Brainiac Five, of course, but also Superboy and Star Boy, plus a couple of emails betting it was Wildfire. All of them are cool, mind […]

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Via Karen, this is a pretty concise – and amusing – background and explanation of the recent transit strike in Toronto.

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Cool is elusive. We all know that. Pursuing cool is difficult because true cool is only achieved by fearlessness without purpose. Arnold Schwarzenegger action movies are not cool; they are loud and stupid and enjoyable at times, but not cool because they are designed to make Arnold look cooler, and as such fail. Chow Yun-Fat […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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In no particular order: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF AMERICAN EMPIRE BY HOWARD ZINN: I haven’t seen anybody on the comical interwebs really discuss this at all, but I picked it up yesterday and it’s really very good; it’s meant to be a more easily read and accessible version of Zinn’s A People’s History of the […]

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