So here’s my deep, dark, horrible secret: Despite posing as someone who’s extremely conversant with the history of superhero comics, I had never read the Chris Claremont/John Byrne Dark Phoenix Saga before this week. I had just never really been able to track down a TPB or reprints before. Understand, between summaries and secondhand sources, […]

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This week: A Wish For Wings That Work, the only Berke Breathed TV special ever. Part two. Part three.

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So I am looking at the World Cup draws and MGK was complaining about how “fucking Italy gets a walk to the semis,” and he doesn’t like Italy because he thinks they play the game like dicks somehow. I’m not up on soccer beyond the basics, but I assume they try to bribe referees or […]

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Hoo boy. Kathryn and Ryan: disco and cha cha. Wow, Ryan really got lucky this week: a good partner and two dances firmly in his wheelhouse. The disco was fine; Ryan’s skill at partnering combined with Kathryn’s general skill period made for a perfectly good disco. Not a great one, but that’s more on Doriana […]

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I’m a big fan of K’naan, so to hear that Wavin’ Flag is the official anthem of the 2010 World Cup makes me happy.

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…when you are not sure if the exam you just had was “easy” or “deceptively easy.”

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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(Posting will be light the next week or so – exams in full swing, etc.)

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Well, I have to say that as comic con costumes go, these two are not bad. I mean, Stargirl looks kind of… directly translated from the comic, but it’s okay because it’s a con costume and you expect people to be literal. And Dr. Fate – well, fake muscles in the costume aside, that sure […]

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Rankin-Bass’ The Life And Adventures of Santa Claus, probably the best one they ever did. Parts 2-5 are on Youtube as well.

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FLAPJACKS: So why aren’t you nominated for this year’s Canadian blog awards? ME: I’m not? FLAPJACKS: Nope. ME: Are you sure? FLAPJACKS: I used your computer and everything. ME: Which reminds me, you owe me half a dozen bagels. FLAPJACKS: I got you bagels. ME: You got me circular bread from Loblaws. Do we have […]

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My friend Gemma Files recently finished her novel A Book of Tongues, which I am not sure what it is about offhand, but I know the following things: 1.) It has cowboys shootin’ people in violent bloody gunfights 2.) It has mean badass magic in violent bloody ways 3.) It has gay sex, which may […]

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Aries (20 March – 19 April). Beware of the following things: cats painted blue, books with “vol. 41” on the spine, speakerphones, Maalox, those little styrofoam packing peanuts, tinned salmon, the Seven of Clubs, toy lightsabers, flavoured gin, the country of Malawi, covered wagons (like the pioneers used), Katie Couric, vitamin water, the cinematic works […]

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Top ten week! New partnerships! No new judges! Mollee still inexplicably present! Noelle and Ryan: hip-hop and smooth waltz. And once again, Tabitha and Napoleon choreograph what’s pretty blatantly a jazz routine, throw in a couple of chest-pumps and HEY IT’S HIP-HOP NOW. It not being hip-hop aside, both Ryan and Noelle danced this quite […]

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