EDIT TO ADD: You know, I am horribly shocked that nobody here seems to know about Best Of Craigslist, which is how you find about things like this guy, or the guy who wants to lease out his banana slugs, or especially the guy who wants to fuck a girl while she plays Super Mario […]

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I am about to invent a new drink, or possibly bake a very oddly shaped cake. I shall call it “Death by Saturn”. Fudge will be involved somewhere, although where I shall procure it on a Friday night in the middle of the crime-ridden ghetto I call home I am uncertain. Part of my job […]

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A LAWYER: (noticing my nametag) Hey, are you the Christopher Bird who writes for thecourt.ca? ME: Yes, I am. A LAWYER: Yeah, I was reading your analysis of… uh… damn, what was the case? ME: Hydro-Quebec? A LAWYER: No, it was about crown liability issues? Policy versus operational? ME: Right, I was talking about the […]

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Because it debuted before The Dark Knight, which, this past weekend, became the single most successful movie to open ever, the trailer for Zach Snyder’s Watchmen garnered a lot of attention. Lots of (well deserved) drooling, lots of controversy. My particular favorite note came from Galleycat, which said: “Remember earlier this week, when a well-placed […]

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Because there aren’t enough webcomics capable of totally breaking your heart in twelve pages. (found via the slog)

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If you read comics blogs at all (I do not quite qualify this here site as a “comics blog” because it is so, so much more than that, he said modestly) you know that this upcoming weekend is the San Diego Comic Convention, nerdvana for the masses, and that every comics blogger who is any […]

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Shorter Climbing Out Of The Dark: Alleging something and saying something are two very different things, and this proves that the Globe and Mail is a dirty Commie rag. Shorter Matthew Siscoe: Since Al-Qaeda is Sunni and Saddam Hussein was Sunni, it therefore stands to reason that a small, disorganized and mostly loathed band of […]

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Jesus Christ are purity balls creepy.

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Finally, there’s enough information available to make an informed decision on the US Presidential election! Or, at least, there will be soon. IDW is publishing Presidential Comics, a flip-book biography of Barack Obama and John McCain, in October. The Obama side is written by Jeff Mariotte, who will presumably not indulge his tendency to have […]

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(Seriously, I have like the worst cold ever, I’ve been all ugh for like two days now and the only thing I have in the hopper is this. I usually wait three or four weeks to post a new one of these because I like to space them out but I want to get some […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Things That Are Good About Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog: – Neil Patrick Harris. The fact that Doogie has become a nerd phenomenon and a legitimate comic lead really just tickles me endless, but you can’t say it’s anything but deserved; NPH has screen presence coming out the ass, the acting chops to back it up […]

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…Tata Motors developed the world’s first commercially mass-produced car run off compressed air.

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