A while back guyincorporated asked: Played any good boardgames lately? And the answer to that is always “of course,” but it’s rare that I come across any that are really mindblowingly good in a way that’s new or exciting. Boardgaming is one of those hobbies where there are constantly new opportunities to acquire new games, […]

Continue reading...

Hello, it’s your old pal Justin (note: it is acceptable if you do not consider us old pals). Something in the world of superhero comics commentary has been gnawing at me for a while, but I sort of missed my original window of opportunity to talk about it. Now that the character is back in […]

Continue reading...

Everyone understands the comic-book reboot, right? A comic (or an entire line of comics) is getting too bogged down in old continuity, making it less accessible to new readers and difficult to get people to try. So, the thinking goes, let’s start everything over again! A new beginning, from square one, looking forward to a […]

Continue reading...

Ivy and Robbie: contemporary and Bollywood. The contemporary was a nice little piece that the two of them danced well and which was both exuberant/joyful and not really surprising – it was exactly what it promised to be and there were no revelations or anything, but it was very fine for all of that. Bonnie […]

Continue reading...

Torontoist asked me to weigh in on whether Toronto should be its own province, so I did that very thing.

Continue reading...

So you may have noticed the immense amount of downtime on the site over the last day and change. Basically, what has happened is this: Google Reader Play got launched, and quite a few images from the Kim Jong-LOL post got added to it, and then a bunch more got added to it, and the […]

Continue reading...

I’ve been enjoying Parenthood thus far, but wasn’t sure how true the portrayal of the kid with Asperger’s Syndrome was, so I asked a friend of mine who has kids with Asperger’s to watch it so I could get her opinion. This is it.

Continue reading...

A few people emailed me after the last time I had an open call for post requests asking me to “rip into” George R.R. Martin for taking such a long-ass time finishing the A Song of Ice and Fire books, which… no. I mean, just no. Even if we could get around the amazing hypocrisy […]

Continue reading...

(and yes, I really did learn the tuba)

Continue reading...

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

Continue reading...

Continue reading...

Hello, everyone! Sorry to detract from the actual entertaining posts, but I wanted to introduce myself so that next week, everyone knows that it was the new guy and not MGK who said that whoever green-lit “Spider-Man: Reign” must have been smoking crack. (Note: This may not actually be the topic of next week’s post. […]

Continue reading...

Some people like to point to that bit in Crisis On Infinite Earths where the Penguin is briefly depicted fighting Firestorm to a standstill as the “waitasec” moment of that series, but it’s not mine. After all, the Penguin is a pretty smart dude and he has umbrellas that shoot people. Plus, Firestorm is traditionally […]

Continue reading...

Your guest host is Kelley Abbey. She is pretty. Top seven boys: Broadway. I was kind of meh on the whole idea of a top seven boys’ performance because there didn’t seem to be any reasonable way to choreo a routine that would showcase all of them equally, so I figured they’d end up just […]

Continue reading...

(inspired by this) — The old man lies back in bed. The nurses call him by a name he barely remembers any more, except when his friends use it. The name is meaningless anyway: calling it a fiction would be too kind. It’s a shoddy lie, and nobody believes it now, and as he nears […]

Continue reading...