So this is a song by Foster the People called “Houdini.” It’s a perfectly good song. I wouldn’t call it “great,” but as indie rockers go it’s solid enough: good beat, tuneful, distinctive. See? Not bad at all, really. But this is the same song as re-envisioned by Remix Artist Collective: RAC turn the song […]

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Recently, the political interwoobs have coalesced into two distinct camps of thought with respect to the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination campaign. These thoughts are “Mitt Romney is going to win it eventually because nobody else can” and “Mitt Romney cannot win it because the base hates him.” The pro-Romney argument (inasmuch as any of these […]

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…the answer to the riddle from the Riddler comic I posted last week. Click on thumb to see full

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Click on thumb to see full Art of course by my partner in crime, the dynamite Davinder Brar.

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So some ad agency had the Muller people come in and say: “Okay, so KITT is driving down the street and he parks all-awesome like, but a cop gives him a ticket, so this Muller truck nearby is actually a Transformer and it turns into a robot and it eats the cop, but then it […]

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Recently there’s been a lot saying of things like “Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party have a lot in common because they’re both angry at how society has been declining and they are both frustrated by their increased inability to effect real change, so they should get together and talk stuff over.” I consider […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Maybe twenty minutes too long, but otherwise manages to make a story that is, at its heart, about statistics filmic in a way that is a deeply impressive piece of writing.

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A few years back, I had cause to buy the novelization of ‘Infinite Crisis’, by Greg Cox. (I was working on a book project that has since fallen through on account of being terminally over-ambitious and unfinishable, and it involved reading a lot of crossovers.) I didn’t get around to reading it…see “unfinishable and over-ambitious, […]

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My election post-mortem is up at Torontoist, along with the election liveblog from last night.

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Torontoist’s provincial election endorsement – most of which I wrote – is up for you to read. It is, perhaps, somewhat predictable, but you have to admit that Torontoist didn’t just let me write “FUCK TIM HUDAK” one thousand times in a row. Which was tempting.

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Click on thumb to see full Why, yes, there is a riddle (and an answer) contained within the strip. I mean, how can you do a Riddler introduction without a riddle? And let’s make it interesting: the first comment to give the exact answer to Riddler’s challenge (which of course demands that you first figure […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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