Aug

John Hughes, 1950-2009

Posted by MGK Published in Auf Wiedersehen Goodbye

Aug

Buffy, the zombie Slayer

Posted by Matthew Johnson Published in Comics, General Nerd Crap, TV

It’s an odd feeling to realize you’ve been reading a comic for more than twenty issues based entirely on inertia. As I flipped open Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight #27 yesterday it occurred to me that I had no real memory of what had happened in the last issue, or much genuine interest in […]

43 comments

Aug

Thursday WHO’S WHO: The Phantom Stranger

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Who's Who

I don’t really need to introduce the Phantom Stranger to most of you, I think, so I just want to say something about him. The reason the Phantom Stranger is great is because he is the elemental expression of something we all, deep down, want to believe is true (even if we don’t), and that […]

48 comments

Aug

SYTYCD Bloggin’

Posted by MGK Published in Nothing Else Fit

Before we get started, Dan asked: …the few times I’ve tried to watch it I had to change the channel immediately when Mary Murphy starts talking. And I know more people who don’t watch the show because of her than watch it despite her. What are your thoughts on her presence and what she brings […]

14 comments

Aug

The kids are all right

Posted by MGK Published in TV

The annual Jeopardy Teen Tournament is on before SYTYCD and I’m watching it, both because i like Jeopardy and because I’m eating my dinner (which is a salad today) and I am pleased to report that these kids – who were effortlessly nailing all the answers and generally doing everything but wearing signs saying “One […]

18 comments

Aug

When you are feeling optimistic about the world and need it to stop, there is always Yahoo Answers

Posted by MGK Published in WTF

11 comments

Aug

Year three.

Posted by MGK Published in The Site

Today marks the second anniversary of my really having started blogging on this new site in earnest after being booted off Livejournal. (Which probably only sped matters up somewhat as at the time I’d been planning to move to a more independent platform anyway, but still, my thanks to LJ for giving me primo outlaw […]

12 comments

Aug

Daaaamn

Posted by MGK Published in The Miscellaneous Sciences And Crap Like That

This is the type of utopian thinking I can get behind.

9 comments

Aug

More about my eating habits than you need to know

Posted by MGK Published in Om Nom Nom Nom

My homie Karen asks: What do you normally eat for dinner when you cook for yourself? I really like to bake, but I don’t bake myself food for dinner because most of what I bake is desserts and I’m not so far abased as to eat strawberry rhubarb pie for a meal and I am […]

15 comments

Aug

STAGGERING REVELATION

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Photoshopp'd, Politics

Top comment: Guys, you’re not grasping the ramifications of this! Not only was President Obama born in a foreign country, he was born IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE in which Kenya achieved independence several years earlier! Who knows what other horrifying properties this alternate timeline has? CAN YOU PROVE IT IS NOT ONE OF THOSE UNIVERSES […]

44 comments

Aug

Answers to questions

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, My Readers Got Comments

Lister Sage asks: The Jason Todd post had me thinking: Does this DC Universe need a Punisher? Not really. The DC Universe has had Punishers before: Mad Dog, the second Vigilante, the latest iteration of Manhunter to an extent, and you can even make a case for Tommy Monoghan. Almost universally they just don’t work […]

29 comments

Aug

This as usual

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

7 comments

Aug

It’s fine.

Posted by MGK Published in Health Care

Mike asked: ’d rather hear what you think of the bashing Canada’s health care system has been getting all summer long in the American media. Has anyone gotten anything right about it in the US? Anything particularly egregiously twisted out of shape, or even outright made up? Face it: in the world of comics geeks, […]

41 comments

Aug

Things I Liked This Week And Things I Didn’t

Posted by MGK Published in Books, Comics, Gaming, Muzak

LIKED – Someone in the requests post asked for a general investigation into what I like and don’t like in music, and that’s coming later this week, but for the meantime? I really got into listening to Orishas this week. I really like hip-hop combined with traditional musical forms and Orishas do it very well, […]

17 comments

Aug