COMMENT OF THE THREAD: Is it normal for people in England to watch porn without masturbating? — RobotKeaton

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Once upon a time, there was a band of kiddie heroes in the Golden Age. And that was all right! Okay, so maybe there being the presence of a fat kid in tights named “Tubby” is the sort of thing that now seems ludicrous. As does a pretty girl – hell, any girl – voluntarily […]

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Meet… Machine-Gun Maggie! She’s a tough-talking lady with eyes of steel and the heat to back it up! A post-feminist icon for the ages! She’s unstoppable! A wrecking machine in stiletto heels! There’s nothing she can’t – Oh. Never mind. Comment that wins the thread: Think of how her life might have changed if only […]

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thisguyvx, on the Ethan Van Sciver thread from Sunday: Incidentally, I love how ANYTHING that echoes the non-screaming liberal viewpoint gets AUTOMATICALLY decried. Honestly, it’s not EVS’s politics that bug me nearly so much as his debating style. Summarizing his behaviour on the thread in question: EVS: “The United States has a great degree of […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Chocolate could be as rare as caviar in twenty years, due in part to climate change.

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ONE ME: So they’re stuntmen who double for children. FLAPJACKS: They’re being totally dismissive when they say it’s a niche market. ME: Really. How else can they apply it? FLAPJACKS: They could stunt double for Michael J. Fox. ME: Right. FLAPJACKS: Because he’s short. ME: I got it. FLAPJACKS: Although they’d have to wiggle around […]

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A friend forwarded me the link to this Comic Book Resources forum thread, wherein Ethan Van Sciver, best known for extremely detailed drawings in comical books and for deciding that Green Lanterns all have a little Lantern logo made out of energy floating in front of their chests, pontificates on matters political and economical. It […]

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Although I find a lot of the new non-club-improv-comedy-anywhere scene to be kind of sickly attention-seeking, I have to concede that sometimes they are really quite awfully clever.

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WHY BRAD PITT WILL WIN BEST ACTOR FOR THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON: Because he had to find the essence of his character buried under pounds of old-age makeup – while the character itself was a young one, and Pitt had to portray that essential contradiction and did so very well. Because he is […]

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WHY ANGELINA JOLIE WILL WIN BEST ACTRESS FOR CHANGELING: Because she gave a good performance. Because she gave a good performance outside of her comfort zone, playing in a period piece that didn’t lend itself to her natural strengths. Because she’s one of the few relatively bankable actresses in Hollywood and people want to reward […]

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