HEY EVERYBODY! I am Flapjacks, the one and only, coming to you LIVE (well this is not live technically) on the internet because MGK doesn’t close his browser windows and I know how to create a new user in WordPress (okay it took me three tries). Now, sure, maybe he’ll delete this post and my […]

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Might want to strip out the commentary-upon-current-action commands there. I’m just saying. Would anybody have noticed that robot stealing those clothes otherwise?

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Okay, so right now there’s only the inaugural post, but you should all bookmark Andrew Wheeler’s new blog because Wheeler is a great writer and funny man and he deserves success. Not as much success as me, obviously, but, you know. Success.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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FLAPJACKS: So did you win a Weblog Award yet? ME: No, I wasn’t even nominated. FLAPJACKS: But I thought you tried to get people to nominate you? ME: No, I tried to get them to nominate me for the Bloggies. FLAPJACKS: But it says here that the Bloggies are the weblog awards. ME: They’re weblog […]

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A collection of Polish movie posters (as in “Polish posters for Hollywood movies”, not “posters for Polish movies”). Seeing these reminds me of an old exhibition of hand-painted African posters for Hollywood movies; the artists took a lot of liberties (I notably remember a poster for The Empire Strikes Back where C-3P0 was wearing a […]

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I recently got into an argument with a friend who is vegetarian about vegetarianism. For the record, I am not one of those people who thinks vegetarianism is stupid or proof of lack of moral character or something. I am similarly not one of those people who fetishizes the act of eating meat. (You know, […]

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The universe may just be a giant hologram.

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“Hey, what would the Justice League be like if they were Nazis?” This is a question that has been posed to the comics reader again and again and again. Frankly by this point it is kind of boring. But luckily, here is one of the earlier iterations of the answer! If Superman was a Nazi […]

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(Come on, you must be sick by now of fine Corinthian leather, Khan and Mr. Roarke clips.)

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CONTROVERSY as this week’s TV column, rather than having the traditional dichotomy of five images, has FOUR images with the American Idol bit taking up two of five slots (because it is on twice during the week). Begin discussing how much Simon Cowell paid me to do this… right now!

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PETA – and just those four letters together should alert most people to the fact that this is gonna be a doozy – has decided that the best way to convince people to stop eating fish is to rename them “sea kittens.” There are Sea Kitten Facts. Many male sea kittens woo potential partners by […]

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