MGK: So we’re back, watching Animalympics again. FLAPJACKS: …I know that. Why are you saying that? MGK: I’m setting the scene for my readers. FLAPJACKS: It’s really annoying. MGK: Anyway – so slalom star Kurt Wuffner is missing. FLAPJACKS: Why is the entire search party looking for him composed of elephants? I mean, if you’re […]

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FLAPJACKS: So what are we watching? MGK: “We?” FLAPJACKS: Well, I brought back your wok, so I figure I might as well hang out. MGK: That’s not my wok. That’s a frying pan. FLAPJACKS: So? MGK: You had my wok for three years. FLAPJACKS: Yes, and now we’re watching something. Keep up! What are we […]

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Your guest judges are Luther, Blake and Mary Murphy, who I assume is now present for the rest of the season with the American show over (oh goody). Lindsay and Christian: salsa. Lindsay and Christian have already demonstrated that they are an insanely capable pairing when it comes to salsa, and this was basically their […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Kevin Drum is enthused that California has joined the National Popular Vote movement, and my question is: why? I’m not asking “why does he support the National Popular Vote.” I agree with him that a national popular vote, assigning each state’s electors by percentage of votes to each party, is a much better and fairer […]

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Night Slayer is one of the many examples of the school of Batman villain that’s more old-school 70s-style Batman than modern Batman: the guy who wants to be as good as Batman at being Batmannish, but evil. There are others, of course: Black Spider, the Wrath,1 KGBeast and Prometheus are all from this “hey let’s […]

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Your guest judges are Kenny Ortega and Katie Holmes, who is a human wasteland. Damn, is that a whole season without Adam Shankman? Shame. Adam’s nice, and usually tries to give reasonably good criticism. The final episode of the season is usually pretty weak because the dancers are exhausted, but let’s see what happens. Melanie […]

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Over at Torontoist, I dueled with Patrick Metzger over the issue of allowing corporate advertising inside of schools.

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Image blatantly looted from the always excellent flashboy It’s been a while since I exercised my guest-blogger privileges here. I figured that since I was on the scene, I might write a bit about the shit that’s currently going down in my town– although my neighbourhood, Lambeth, is fairly quiet so far. I am only […]

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Your guest judges are Rex Harrington, Melissa Williams and Dan Karaty, and while I’m happy to see Dan two weeks in a row this show doesn’t need five judges. Jean-Marc pimps his new line of ballroom dance shoes, which actually look pretty damn nifty. Jordan and Francois: samba. Absolutely insanely difficult choreography from Gustavo MOTHERFUCKING […]

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Hey, it could happen. The DCU is big, it’s got magical, and the Big Two comics companies have a long and stories tradition of incorporating their tie-in comics wholesale into their fictional universe so that they can get the cheap sales hit of crossing over their established heroes with the new corporate icon on the […]

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