I’ve occasionally wondered if the MGK.com audience is interested in professional wrestling analysis, and I suppose there’s no better reason to test the waters than what Dave Meltzer calls “the biggest money-drawing pro-wrestling show of the last 130 years.”  (It is a little known fact that the Earp brothers and the Clanton gang actually settled […]

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A lot of people have emailed me asking me for my take on the Trayvon Martin killing, and although I’ve kind of wanted to write about it at the same time I have not wanted to touch it with a ten-foot pole. Mostly this is because I am A) white and B) not American, so […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Every time I hear about Geraldo Rivera’s comments on the Trayvon Martin shootings, I always picture him talking to the victim’s family. I picture him sitting there, an expression of Sincere Concern on his face (the one he’s practiced over years of TV “journalism”), perhaps putting a hand on one family member’s knee in a […]

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Only serious flaw is that without Katniss’ internal monologue, the moments where Katniss is acting badly will come across as Jennifer Lawrence acting badly to those unfamiliar to the source material.

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Yesterday on Twitter, Tim O’Neill wrote that the best Twitter bot name he had seen yet was “Charsky Troublefield.” This is, no question, a great name. However, I pointed out that in real life, about a decade ago when Columbia House was still a thing, my roommates and I received more than a few pieces […]

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So I have maintained for quite some time now that Jonathan Hickman’s Fantastic Four run is, increasingly, one of the truly definitive runs on the title. To my mind it’s surpassed Walt Simonson’s run and John Byrne’s1 and is quietly creeping up on Waid/Ringo, which while a great run certainly had a few rough patches […]

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No, I am not blegging for a tablet. I am looking for advice re: e-readers and tablets. I know I want to get one, but I’m trying to figure out what I want to get. I’ve considered e-readers because of the battery life and e-ink: I need something that will read PDFs but will give […]

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Some time ago – I can’t find it now, it may be gone – some enterprising person designed a website that would auto-mail a letter for you via snailmail to your Member of Parliament. You would write the letter as if it were an email, choose your MP, and it would do the rest. It […]

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