Your guest judges this week are Sean Cheeseman and Melissa Williams, bringing the Cancon and the actually capable judging. Kim and Emanuel: jazz/funk./ I am coming to understand that “jazz/funk” as a genre actually means “Blake McGrath is a pervert.” This is the sort of routine that really serves Emanuel well: heavy on character, so […]

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this is probably the closest we will get to a Rex The Wonder Dog teevee show any time soon.

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I was trying to figure out when to do this post, and then I realized, based on an Ancestry.com search, that Harry Lucey died in August 1984. I don’t know the exact date (like I said before, there was no obituary), but even though I’ve missed the 25th anniversary of his death, this might be […]

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Now maybe you go to a big convention and you see someone in an unfamiliar costume and you are all “gosh I wish I knew who that was, but I can’t say that out loud or I will lose valuable nerd cred, and nerd cred is the only cred I have since I came to […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. Also, now that I am the Managing Editor and Big Chief Hoo-Hah at thecourt.ca, I don’t really write posts there any more so much as I run the place. That having been said, this post about the Prime Minister’s office appealing the Khadr case to the Supreme […]

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What do Citizen Kane, The Matrix, and Meet the Spartans have in common? What do War & Peace, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and The Destroyer Volume 11: Kill or CURE have in common? What do Persepolis, Jack Staff, and Tyrese Gibson’s MAYHEM! have in common? I imagine the answer to the first two […]

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Deep-fried butter.

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LIKED – Extract isn’t quite on the level of Mike Judge’s other brilliant comedies, but it’s still damn funny; Jason Bateman, JK Simmons, Kirsten Wiig, and Clifton Collins Jr. are all fantastic (and Beth Grant deserves a shout-out for creating the most hilariously annoying character ever; seriously, you will wish she would get run over […]

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Because, come on. Naked, sweaty Hitler?

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In Andrew’s Michelle Bachman post, Andre started a discussion about what rich get out of taxation versus poor people, and concludes: I’m simply arguing that it is a difficult proposition to prove, one way or another, who the greatest beneficiary is of that system. Here’s the thing, though: it really isn’t difficult at all. Wealth […]

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–EC reprints are hellaciously expensive. The Amazon discount takes the edge off it quite a bit, but I still feel it’s pretty steep. Part of the magic of EC Comics (and this extends to a great deal more classic comics material) is that they were delivered in cheap, disposal packaging, but the content itself transcended […]

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I really want to punch Tim Trench in the face. Sadly, he is fictional, so I cannot do this. It’s not because of his association with the nonpowered era of Wonder Woman comics. Which, incidentally were bad comics, and the attempt in recent years to rehabilitate these bad comics as being good or at least […]

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I almost fell out of my chair yesterday when I read that, while addressing a “free  market think tank,” US Representative and Joker impersonator Michele Bachmann said something I agreed with. Fortunately, she reverted to form, finishing the almost reasonable sentence with talk about becoming blood brothers, before really making with the crazy. My shaken […]

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