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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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…is not nearly as bad as the reviews would have you believe, especially when you take into account that seemingly half of all people reviewing this movie do so in the following manner: “where is the singing and the archery versus knights and where are the Merry Men and why isn’t everybody an anthropomorphized fox […]

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I had an interesting experience this weekend at a yard sale on my street. While digging through a bin full of kids’ clothes in hopes of finding some for my two-year-old son, I had a Spider-Man t-shirt thrust into my hands. “Trust me,” said the father of the boy whose old toys and clothes were […]

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Every season I consider doing recap/discussion posts for Survivor and every season I never quite get around to it, mostly because most seasons start out slow with a bunch of people you don’t really know mostly playing blind – which is amusing, but the real meat in watching a season of Survivor arises in the […]

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The one thing Archie Andrews can be thankful for is that Betty Cooper doesn’t (usually) have god-like magical powers that allow her to kill or maim other people on a whim. Harvey… er… No-Last-Name is not so lucky. As revealed in this story from Sabrina # 21 (September 1974), written by Frank Doyle and drawn […]

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Everybody hates gratuitous resurrections, right? It’s just a fanboy thing, like bagging your comics or bickering about who would win in a Batman/Captain America fight. It just sucks that they (Marvel or DC, take your choice) continue to insult our intelligence by giving us unbelievably contrived resurrection storylines. “It wasn’t me who died! A cosmic […]

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The Sorcerer Supreme is of course tasked with the defense of this reality from all others. But the thing about defense, as any diplomat can tell you, is that there’s multiple ways to do it. A massive display of might is always a good option A, but there will always be those too cocky, too […]

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So I been thinking that it’s time I stopped working at the pet store because seriously, the pet store sucks. You’re over by the doggy bins and you’re marking down the puppies because they’re a month old now and they just look at you like “if you drop my price by another two hundred dollars […]

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If I were Barack Obama, and I wanted to convince 73-year-old Anthony Kennedy that, were he to step down, his replacement would be someone similarly moderate in judicial style – well, Obama’s Supreme Court picks make a lot more sense in that regard, don’t they? Granted, it’s probably a moot point until Obama’s possible second […]

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So Barack Obama has gone and nominated Elena Kagan as his next Supreme Court pick, which should surprise absolutely nobody; she was always going the frontrunner for the job once she got some experience in a major government position under her belt first, which was why Sotomayor got nominated last year instead of Kagan – […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Darren Kramble writes to ask: As a Canadian ex-pat, I know that the Tories currently have a minority government, but I have no idea how that is going. Anyway, I live in the UK, and the country seems to be freaking out at our hung parliament, as if it is the end of the political […]

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