Feb

Whoa

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Strippery

User Friendly creator Illiad caught plagiarizing his punchlines from Metafilter comments. This cannot end well. Top comment: To make so many people outraged, it must be worse than that Mohammad thing! — nickshogun

13 comments

Feb

Blast from the past present

Posted by MGK Published in My Readers Got Comments

Most people don’t get to see recent comments to much older posts for obvious reasons, but I thought this, from Nina, on this post, was hilarious: I could really do with a “fuck this shit” button on my browser. You know, one I could click every time I come across something so mediocre that I […]

18 comments

Feb

Don’t Get Too Cocky, Canada

Posted by MGK Published in Law

Recently, in discussing the proposed bill before Congress to require ISP and wifi providers to keep records of all user access, several commenters made smug “not in Canada” comments. I didn’t have time to mention it then, but this is not the case, as an Ontario Superior Court judge recently ruled that no warrant is […]

6 comments

Feb

The week begins with me!

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. Also, to answer a question a bunch of people have asked in email: because the Deep Space Nine and Voyager covers are, respectively, boring and boring plus ugly.

6 comments

Feb

And The Circle Is Complete

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Books, Here's A Lot Of Photoshops, Photoshopp'd

FLAPJACKS: So first you did those Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. ME: Yes. FLAPJACKS: And then you did all that nerd-lit from years gone by. ME: Yes. FLAPJACKS: You realize there remains only one true realm of nerd-bookery left to you. ME: Unfortunately. FLAPJACKS: A final frontier, if you will. ME: Yes, very clever.

66 comments

Feb

MGK Liveblogs The Oscars

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

8:14: We are informed that nobody will ever forget the name of Viola Davis for her performance in Doubt. I would suggest that just maybe this is optimistic and that in three months’ time Viola Davis will be a hard-to-answer trivia question. 8:15: Some schmuck kisses Miley Cyrus’ ass. How much self-worth does one lose […]

42 comments

Feb

Oscar Prognosticatin’

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

WHY THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON WILL WIN BEST PICTURE: Because it’s finally the big-swing Best Picture contender directed by David Fincher with Brad Pitt in it that a generation has been waiting for. Because it made the most money out of all the contenders. Because people genuinely like it. Because people think Cate […]

10 comments

Feb

Presumably They Read “Little Brother” And Were Worried That Kids Might Subvert The DHS, So…

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

Republicans introduce bill that would require all ISPs and Wifi providers to keep two-year logs of all use. Comment of the thread: The Republicans said that if the Democrats got elected, the government would take away everyone’s rights, but I had assumed they meant the other party would be responsible. — plus C

13 comments

Feb

Friday manstrokewoman

Posted by MGK Published in It's The Youtube, TV

COMMENT OF THE THREAD: Is it normal for people in England to watch porn without masturbating? — RobotKeaton

7 comments

Feb

Thursday WHO’S WHO: Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys (Mk. I and Mk. II)

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Who's Who

Once upon a time, there was a band of kiddie heroes in the Golden Age. And that was all right! Okay, so maybe there being the presence of a fat kid in tights named “Tubby” is the sort of thing that now seems ludicrous. As does a pretty girl – hell, any girl – voluntarily […]

26 comments

Feb

The Sensational New Character Find Of 1949!

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

Meet… Machine-Gun Maggie! She’s a tough-talking lady with eyes of steel and the heat to back it up! A post-feminist icon for the ages! She’s unstoppable! A wrecking machine in stiletto heels! There’s nothing she can’t – Oh. Never mind. Comment that wins the thread: Think of how her life might have changed if only […]

21 comments

Feb

My Commenters Got Comments, Ethan Van Sciver Edition

Posted by MGK Published in The Site

thisguyvx, on the Ethan Van Sciver thread from Sunday: Incidentally, I love how ANYTHING that echoes the non-screaming liberal viewpoint gets AUTOMATICALLY decried. Honestly, it’s not EVS’s politics that bug me nearly so much as his debating style. Summarizing his behaviour on the thread in question: EVS: “The United States has a great degree of […]

50 comments

Feb