This is fucking brilliant.

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(SCENE: a nondescript hotel room, covered with paper, the television tuned to CNN. JOSH, TOBY, SAM, DONNA, and CJ are sitting around the room in various states of concentration.) SAM: (reading aloud) “This election is important, not because it is about change but because it is about choice. As a politician, I choose to present […]

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To all those people emailing me to complain that the political Magic cards post was “too biased for the Democrats,” my response is thus: (image via Weasel King)

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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One of the reasons I think the Waid/Kitson threeboot version of the Legion was fatally flawed from the outset is that its concept of making the Legion an oppositional force was wholly at odds with the core Legion concept, which tends to be utopian and status-quo defending rather than revolutionary and game-changing. Sure, you could […]

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I’ve been seeing this diary start to get passed around the internets as “proof” of the John McCain campaign’s ineptitude – that they didn’t buy McCain Foods’ hyperlink before the campaign. People. McCain Foods is fucking gigantic. They make about six billion dollars a year in revenue and they’re a Canadian company so there isn’t […]

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By now you are probably aware that Tina Fey showed up to play Sarah Palin on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live. (You likely discovered this by reading that great newspaper, The Picayune-San Francisco Unsurprising News Digest Of The World.) And if you haven’t seen it yet, no doubt there is video of it […]

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I’ve said before that I think people who believe Pakistan to be a Musharraf away from Islamic theocracy to be wildly overconcerned, considering that the main conflict in Pakistan is between secular conservatives and secular moderates. This story serves as further evidence for my view.

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– Early favorites: TK the classical-music-breaker (who can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 45 seconds!), Lisa the cocky contemporary dancer, and the trampoliney-guy who mixed some amazing aerials into a reasonably good contemporary routine. – Leah Miller is a black hole where charisma goes to die. – Tre Armstrong looks to be a staggeringly good […]

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Once upon a time, there was Aquaman. And comics fans looked down upon Aquaman, and they saw that he was Good. Well, not good exactly, but tolerable. In that way that, like, Poindexter from Revenge of the Nerds was tolerably entertaining. Sure, Poindexter wasn’t Lewis or Anthony Edwards or Booger or Takashi or the gay […]

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ME: Hey, whose “Equality” brand lemonade is this? ERIC: It’s mine. ME: Can I have some of your off-brand pre-made lemonade? ERIC: Take as much as you want. Please. ME: …is it bad? ERIC: It’s really, really sweet. As lemonade it’s terrible. As a mixer, it’s tolerable. ADAM: I find it goes well with gin. […]

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This time around, congratulations are due to mightybaldking, Matt Morrison, James Farley, Reylance, Pedro e Silva and Michael McGee, as well as myself (who edited their ideas and added a few originals of my own). So yay for them! They are nerds too. FYI: All those appealing to me for a “more [ideologically] balanced” set […]

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And you should read him.

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(yes, I have a Zune now. I got sick of spending money on fixing goddamn iPods.) No actual music video, so I opted for Audiosurf, because Audiosurf is awesome, even if I kind of suck at it. However, since I only heard “Handlebars” by Flobots like, last week, it has become obvious to me that […]

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