So the interrobangonets are abuzz about how Mitt “I Am The Next GOP Presidential Candidate, Really” Romney managed to lose three states in a single night to Rick Santorum of all people. I’ve previously discussed how I’ve long felt that Romney is the weakest “prohibitive favorite” in a long time, but now that the campaign […]

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Feb

A videogame I want to play but can’t

Posted by MGK Published in Gaming

Pro Wrestling Tycoon. Forget the many sports wrestling games out there, where you play a wrestler who is wrestling – those almost never capture the spirit of the thing. It’s always “well, here’s a match, wrestle the match.” But pro wrestling is so much more than that – and the challenge factor of successfully running […]

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Feb

I probably could have been meaner to Kevin Smith

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Feb

part four, page six

Posted by MGK Published in Al'Rashad, Comics

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Feb

Before Watchmen and After Dark Knights

Posted by John Seavey Published in Comics, General Nerd Shit

I suppose someone’s going to have to talk about this, aren’t they? Personally, I can get neither excited nor outraged about this. DC, in response to what they have to believe to be popular demand for this, is publishing a prequel that will be subject to more scrutiny than the ‘Gone With the Wind’ sequel. […]

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Feb

This was probably inevitable

Posted by MGK Published in Politics, WTF

I’m surprised it took anti-same-sex-marriage campaigners so long to ape the common tactic of SSM families to use little kids to speak to their views. Granted, it’s nowhere near as compelling for the anti-SSM crowd as it is for the pro-SSM crowd, because when kids of SSM families say that they grew up just fine […]

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Feb

The one benefit of being sick in bed

Posted by MGK Published in "Original"

…is that you get ideas. Or at least I do. Which, not to belabour the point: anybody out there interested in illustrating an approximately 8-page horror comic I thought of this afternoon (in between bouts of coughing), email me. (The story is not coughing-related.)

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Feb

On the regulation of smut

Posted by MGK Published in Law, Politics

So the L.A. City Council voting to require male pornographic actors to use condoms has been getting play from around the internet, including the nigh-mandatory Reason article that thinks it is much funnier than it in fact is. Seriously, reading that post just made me feel bad. You could tell the writer thought they were […]

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