My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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I’ve been getting a few emails recently asking me to do a few more character-based I Should Write The Legion bits, which seems fair because I’ve been concentrating a lot on plot ideas lately. But the thing is – most character issues end up being plot ideas anyway, or at least subplot ideas. Character issues […]

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(SCENE: The local multiplex. Enter MYSELF and my ROOMMATE, who has requested anonymity for the purposes of this post, and so shall be known as FLAPJACKS. We sit in anticipation of watching 10,000 BC, which we are certain is going to be very, very bad.) ME: Okay, here we go. FLAPJACKS: I am stoked. ME: […]

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ME: Hi. My phone got smashed up and I need a new phone but I don’t want to spend a lot of money. CUSTOMER SERVICE PERSON (of company that shall go unnamed but which rhymes with “Bodgers”): Certainly. What’s your account status? ME: I’ve been month-to-month with you for a few years now. BODGERS: I […]

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I was arguing about this at law school today with some fellow students, and I am genuinely unsure of the answer, so I am throwing it to the masses. Hello, masses! So we were arguing about taxation to begin with, which in turn led to the various costs of living in the United States and […]

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…there isn’t any problem you can’t solve with arrows! ARROWS!

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The DC: The New Frontier movie is honestly pretty bad. Weak voice acting (Neil Patrick Harris is good; everyone else is mostly not), generic-looking animation that looks more like warmed-over third degree Dini/Timm models than the gorgeous Darwyn Cooke pencils from the comic, and a superhero-heavy storyline (which removes a lot of the charm of […]

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With Hillary Clinton’s victories in Texas and Ohio yesterday, her campaign is trumpeting her “comeback.” Which of course takes a lot of hubris, considering Obama never led in Ohio at all and reduced thirty-point leads in both states to a less-than-ten-point decision in Ohio and a near-statistical tie in Texas’ primary (and a likely victory […]

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Now that I’ve gotten over my initial impulse regarding any death (respectful nothings and maybe a joke to briefly dismiss the lingering fear of one’s own mortality), I wanted to write a little more about Gary Gygax passing. When I was fifteen, I got kicked out of UTS, a private school in downtown Toronto. UTS […]

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Whichever it might be, hopefully Gary Gygax has found his way there.

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Years later, it only really becomes apparent how much of a genius Jim Henson really was, and this from someone who considered him a genius when he was still alive.

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FIVE KEANU REEVES PERFORMANCES WHICH ARE GENUINELY GOOD Keanu Reeves gets way more shit than he deserves, mostly because his acting talents tend to fall within a very specific subset, which he is called upon to exceed with depressing regularity. An early turn in Desperate Liaisons convinced a lot of producers that he was fodder […]

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My weely TV column is up, as usual, at Torontoist.

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I wanted to wrap up my exciting summary of Tintin In America with a flourish, but the problem with the book is that Herge’s plotting – such a strength of the series in the later books, when he neatly worked multiple subplots together into 64-page maxi-comics with ridiculous skill – here is total ass. Immediately […]

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