Feb

I’m sick

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Cough Cough Wheeze Wheeze

So in lieu of content that takes me a while to write, here is the only commentary I will give on Siege:

Feb

“Playback.”

Posted by MGK Published in Obligatory So You Think You Can Dance Category, TV

I’ve given a fair bit of thought as to what makes So You Think You Can Dance Australia so much better than its other English-speaking cousins – it’s easily better than any of them, which is somewhat quizzical given that of all the English SYTYCDs it takes place in the country with the smallest population. […]

17 comments

Feb

People who need to be kicked in the nuts

Posted by MGK Published in Politics

Peter Sprigg, of the Family Research Council: And I’m talking repeatedly.

35 comments

Feb

John Baird, outed on national radio

Posted by MGK Published in Canadian Politics

It’s never been an actual secret that John Baird, Canada’s current Minister for the Environment, is gay. He’s just not openly gay; he doesn’t advertise it because, well. Tory. Anyway, the Tory candidate running in a Toronto MP by-election was asked about the Tories’ record on gay issues, and was challenged to name one openly […]

9 comments

Feb

What Lost can learn from Battlestar Galactica

Posted by Matthew Johnson Published in TV, Writering

As we await the airing of the first episode of Lost’s final season, our minds naturally drift back to other, similar experiences… other times we’ve seen the final seasons and episodes of complex, episodic shows… final episodes which often sucked. Like Battlestar Galactica. Shows like Lost and BSG (my fingers are getting tired) have a […]

29 comments

Feb

Oscar Reactions

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

BEST PICTURE: Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, Precious, The Hurt Locker, Inglorious Basterds, A Serious Man, Up, Up In The Air. Well, first off the new game everybody has to play is “which five of these wouldn’t have gotten nominated if the Oscars hadn’t decided to super-size this category?” My guess is […]

32 comments

Feb

Bleg

Posted by MGK Published in Books, Shameless Begging

When I was a kid, there was this awesome picture book I read, one of the sort where the writer/artist had put in all sorts of diagrams and little details and so on, and it was about this race of tiny, fuzzy hippopotamus-like people divided into two kingdoms which were at war. But I can’t […]

14 comments

Feb