My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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A RANKING OF ALL TWENTY “TREEHOUSE OF HORROR” SIMPSONS EPISODES BY QUALITY 20.) Treehouse of Horror XVIII. “E.T. Go Home” is one of the least impressive Kang/Kodos stories; it’s forced and relies a lot on the fact that everybody loves Kang and Kodos (or, in this case, pretty much just Kodos). “Mr. and Mrs. Simpson” […]

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Can anybody recommend a good organizer application into which I can enter upcoming dates and get reminders that I have to do stuff on those upcoming dates, preferably a week in advance? Not for a phone, because I don’t have a smartphone and won’t for some time. Just a straight PC app.

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Once again, Sarah Palin writes a column saying that the secret to American energy independence is drilling for oil. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the fact that Palin claims energy issues as her particular sphere of expertise just amazes me, and similarly it amazes me that nobody important bothers to point […]

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Hey, you know that thing I do where I make fun of internet commenters? Yeah, that again, this time about the constitutional challenge being mounted against prostitution laws.

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You can read an interview I did with Larry Gonick, author of (among many other books) The Cartoon History of the Universe, over at the Talk Media Blog.

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I always felt Warp got a bit of a raw deal getting killed off in Salvation Run (which has numerous flaws as a story, not least the idea that half of the supervillains would willingly say “sure thing, Joker can be the leader!”). I mean, yeah, he’s a teleporter and all so he can come […]

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This is probably the sharpest bit of poetic satire I’ve seen in a very long time.

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When I was ten, McDonald’s Monopoly came to Canada for the first time. First off, when you’re ten, McDonald’s has a major impact on your entire life. Our local McDonald’s – the one just down the street from my school, St. Clement’s – got a drive-thru when I was eight, and for all of us […]

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Your guest hosts are Mary Murphy and Rex “FEEL THE GLAM” Harrington. Tara-Jean and Vincent: salsa and contemporary. The salsa was probably the strongest single ballroom performance Tara-Jean’s done, which makes it… pretty good. Seriously, I’m glad Tara-Jean improved and all, but she was oversold hella strong during the first half of the season with […]

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“Sylvester Stallone in a comedy” should rightly raise warning bells. Warning sirens. Some loud noise of some kind, indicating danger. After all, Stallone’s track record for comedies is dismal, to say the least. (Six words: Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!) But every so often, the stars align just so, and what should be a […]

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…my weekly TV column for Torontoist does not pause.

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(cover of Justice Traps the Guilty #50)

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LIKED – Zombieland is exactly as good as you were hoping it would be: it’s not Citizen Kane or anything, but it’s a consistently fun horror/comedy with the emphasis on the latter half of the equation and some very solid action sequences as well, plus a number of clever visual tricks that help keep the […]

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