LIKED – Tales From Monkey Island Chapter One: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal is the first Telltale games adventure “episode” ever that I felt really lived up to the promise of the point-and-click-and-grab-things genre. Most of their previous offerings have been marked by puzzles that fell somewhere in between “unintuitive” and “nonsensical.” But Tales‘ puzzles […]

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In a thread over at Metafilter about Tim Horton’s expanding into New York, someone notes: As a new immigrant to Canada (Toronto in particular), I still don’t understand the Tim Hortons thing. There’s a reason Timmie’s is so universal an element of Canadian culture: it’s particularly Canadian in that it transcends class. Tim’s coffee isn’t […]

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“What are all these black kids doing here?”

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Poor Firebug. Out of all the characters to get boned by Crisis On Infinite Earths, he may have gotten it the worst. Now, sure, he didn’t die or anything. But so what? Supergirl came back. Barry Allen came back. The Anti-Monitor came back. Pretty much the only person who died in Crisis now is Prince […]

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Cat has short (or seriously tied-up) hair this week and she looks awesome! Your guest judge is Tasty Oreo, and that is… less awesome, but not as bad as one might think. Melissa and Ade: disco and waltz. Well, I was kind of waiting for Melissa and Ade to have a bad week, and this […]

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There are cosmic horrors – idiotic, ravenous, indestructible things – lurking on the fringes of the universe. They adore the taste of sentient life; it attracts them to the cracks in reality, and then they force their way through for a time, destroy/eat everything in sight, and retreat back to the madness-worlds that they call […]

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Ryan Reynolds promises that in the Deadpool movie, Deadpool will break the fourth wall. That is about the most perfect thing imaginable.

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Via Jaime, proof of both Betty’s delusional character and the fact that Jughead is aware of how deadly she is: That would be Betty, imagining Jughead to be Archie, and trying to fuck-strangle him to death.

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My weekly TV column is now up at Torontoist.

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NCallahan asked about my ideal design for a reality show. The problem with this sort of question is that most of the ground has already been staked out. Consider reality television, as a genre, along two axes. The first axis is amount of specific talent required. On the one hand, you have a show like […]

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They’re awfully pricey, but damned if I don’t want one of these bamboo-frame bikes.

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LIKED – Finally got around to seeing The Quiet Earth, the mid-80s New Zealand sci-fi movie about a guy who discovers that, as a result of a scientific experiment he worked upon, every person on Earth has disappeared. It’s flawed: needs better actors, and the tail third kinda drags a bit – but it’s still […]

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I was gonna do a sarcastic thing about Sally Kern blaming economic strife on teh gays, but Karen beat me to it.

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Bitch is crazy.

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