A guide to how this season’s competing crews on America’s Best Dance Crew will be eliminated. Ninth place: The Crew That Gets Eliminated By The Judges To Demonstrate That Quality And Talent Will Not Necessarily Save Your Ass Eighth place: The Crew That Should Have Been Eliminated Ninth But Got A Chance To Prove They […]

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For those interested, this week at The Court I wrote about the failure of an objective reasonable person standard to take race into account. So, you know: thrills!

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It’s rare that you find a historical hero who is instantly anachronistic, but Miss Liberty is that hero. Count the stars on her top (which, at the time, would have probably only have been suitable for a really, really weird prostitute, but never mind that now). At a bare minimum she has sewn 24 into […]

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When I got the word that I was admitted to the MGK Legion of Super-Bloggers (Check it out! Shiny new flight ring!), I thought long and hard about what I could bring to this mightiest of blogs that it didn’t already have. It was while adjusting my knickers in the lift on the way back […]

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…and it is eleven-year-old girls who ask questions at Presidential town hall meetings. Clearly, the next step for this eleven-year-old girl is that she will become a Muslim terrorist. She must be stopped before she kills again for the first time!

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Bullseye. I ranted about this on a podcast a while back but fuck it, he’s still here so let me say it again: I do not know when Bullseye became the new Joker and I don’t care, because Bullseye fucking sucks. Bullseye was always perfectly decent in times of yore, and it wasn’t because the […]

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There was a time when a kid could walk into pretty much any North American drugstore or supermarket and find themselves exposed to a wide range of Top 21 Lists. The reasons for the current absence of Lists (Top 21 or otherwise) in such outlets are far too complicated, to say nothing of depressing, to […]

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Holy shit, the season premiere of So You Think You Can Dance Canada is one of the best audition episodes I’ve ever seen. Melanie, that eighteen-year-old “first-time auditioner” dancing like a female version of Brandon? Only two “funny” bad auditions in two hours, and both over with relatively quickly? More sick auditions in one episode […]

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If you have ever thought “The one thing that would improve Montreal is more people in Starfleet uniforms,” you would have been mightily pleased by this year’s Worldcon. Possibly the funniest thing about the con was that it was held in a really staid part of town, at a convention centre that normally hosts business […]

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I CAN MAKE LISTS TOO YOU KNOW 1.) Jerry Siegel. For superheroes in general, but also the idea of superhero “families,” lifespan histories (remember: he invented Superboy as well, not to mention tons of the Superman mythos) and the idea if not the rigorous application of continuity, which has extended beyond superheroes to all aspects […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Personally, I have only shallow thoughts on the American health care debate. Any attempt on my part to articulate a response to the notion that Paris Hilton could possibly deserve better health care than a factory farm-raised chicken, never mind an actual human being, immediately devolves into a scream of impotent fury. So here’s what […]

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Howdy, MGKommunity. The following is a revised version of a post that first appeared on my blog. Thanks for having me. The Onion AV Club recently compiled a list called Reinventing the pencil: 21 artists who changed mainstream comics (for better or worse). The purpose of any such list in a magazine or website, whether […]

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