Timothy Hanson, Commander of the 43rd Space Regiment in the 52nd Battalion on board the USAOPAC (United Space Alliance Of Planets Attack Carrier) and second in command to Admiral L. R. Morris of the USAOP Space Command, awoke early for breakfast. The 2008 Bulwer-Lytton award winners are up.

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Aug

Why I don’t go to cons, 2.

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

Because I don’t want to be associated with shit like this. I’m going to take a different tack from Kevin and Sims and others here, and say “fuck yes, discuss it here.” I’m not sure what there is to discuss, really, beyond “this is bad and should not happen and Di Bello is completely right.” […]

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Aug

Nothing To Do With Anthony Michael Hall, Unfortunately

Posted by MGK Published in David Suzuki Says You're Bad

Remember a while back I mentioned how there was this big “dead zone” of oxygen-depleted water off the Pacific Coast? There’s a lot more of them, and they’re growing very fast.

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Aug

Friday Bugs N’ Daffy

Posted by MGK Published in It's The Youtube, TV

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Aug

Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit.

Posted by Dan Solomon Published in Books

(this post by Non-MGK author Dan Solomon) Hey, you know who’s still a douchebag? That James Frey asshole who wrote A Milion Little Pieces. I read a Vanity Fair article about the guy a month or two ago and thought, you know, maybe he’s not so bad, he probably deserves a second chance. And then […]

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Aug

Rare Appearance Of Meme

Posted by MGK Published in Om Nom Nom Nom

I do this meme mostly because I want to give a shout out to Andrew Wheeler’s excellent foodie blog, Very Good Taste. Wheeler and his cowriters are funny and intelligent and frequently make me hungry, so if you like food – and who doesn’t like food, other than anorexics – give it a looksee. Anyhow: […]

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Aug

Thursday WHO’S WHO: Valda (The Iron Maiden)

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Who's Who

You know, it can’t be said often enough: despite the fact that these days DC’s fantasy characters from the late 70s and early 80s generally sell worse than Firestorm on its worst day, they’re all still pretty neat characters. Valda was the main supporting character-slash-love interest in Arak, Son Of Thunder, which itself was a […]

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Aug

Stealing Warren Ellis’ Schtick

Posted by MGK Published in Politics

So rumour has it that Senator Evan Bayh is the hot pick for Barack Obama’s vice-presidential candidate. And hoo boy is this a bad idea. It’s a bad idea for so many reasons: his wishy-washy DLC conservatism, his singleminded hawkishness on foreign policy, his essentially boring nature, the potential for depressing Obama’s activist base by […]

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Aug

Legally Yours

Posted by MGK Published in Law, The Internets

Up at theCourt.ca from me: an argument against the recent bill in Parliament that would require Supreme Court justices to be bilingual.

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Aug

COMIC TALKING POST: A Bunch Of Stuff

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

– Went into the Beguiling last week to see what was what and saw that The Apocalipstix was out, so I figured why not give it a try as everybody seems to be rather hyped about it. Aaaaand – well, it’s certainly high concept (“riot grrrl band tours America after nuclear Armageddon”), but despite that […]

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Aug

The Week In Bad Ideas.

Posted by Dan Solomon Published in Comics, Film/TV, The Internets, WTF

1. Expecting that the follow-up to The Dark Knight is going to be a film adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns. Michael Doran had a piece on Newsarama that started some of conversation about how the logical sequel to The Dark Knight would have to be an adaptation of Miller’s mini-series, in order to complete […]

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Aug

Corporations ruin everything

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Comics, Photoshopp'd, TV

Those of us who are TV critics are getting the press advance copy for the fall season right now, and I just thought I’d warn everybody in advance: From the copy: Get ready to laugh… like you’re crazy! Reba McEntire (Reba) stars as Harleen Quinzel, a single mom and psychiatrist working in Gotham City. Sparks […]

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Aug