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May
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May
So the media are abuzz about new poll showing the NDP screeching ahead of the Tories in the hypothetical “if an election were held today” scenario, with the NDP in this fantasy scenario forming a minority federal government for the first time in the polling history of Canada. The NDP, polling-wise, now essentially own the […]
28
May
My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.
28
May
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27
May
Recently…well, probably not recently because it’s a very old debate but here’s another recent iteration of it…the discussion once again came up regarding slash fiction. In this particular case, for those of you not clicking the link, it’s a woman stating that she has just as much of a right to remix canon as anyone […]
27
May
I’m not a movie guy. I’m the guy who would watch Avengers at home, alone, on my 36″ TV if I didn’t have to wait four months to do it. So I mostly only read movie reviews to see if some movie that actively annoys me is being panned. Usually movies that annoy me are […]
23
May
Dustin Harbin wrote a very good post about yesterday’s Scott Kurtz dustup and I wanted to respond to it, because Harbin constructs a reasonable argument and I try to respond to reasonable arguments with honest dialogue. And, in fairness, Dustin is not the only one to take issue with the tone I used in writing […]
23
May
So I was watching The Avengers again over the weekend and during one of the fight sequences, there is of course a Wilhelm Scream. This was not something I failed to miss the first time I watched the movie. More precisely, when I watched The Avengers the first time through and the Wilhelm Scream happened, […]
22
May
So yesterday Scott Kurtz posted a typically Kurtzian post about how those who were arguing that: 1.) Jack Kirby’s estate is not getting the share of funds derived from the various properties Kirby helped create for Marvel, and 2.) this is wrong, are, basically, self-important assholes. Of course, because this is Scott Kurtz, it’s not […]
21
May
My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.
21
May
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19
May
The first thought: It’s tricky. Obviously, Marvel has provided a blueprint on how to create a blockbuster film that acts both as a standalone film and as a sequel to numerous other standalone films featuring the origins of the cast of your current movie (so that you don’t have to spend the first ten hours […]
18
May
Torontoist asked me to review the OIRPD’s report on police overreaction during the G20 summit here in Toronto, so I did.
17
May
Zach Butler, a while back, asked: So how’s being a lawyer going? Well. I work here. The thing about family law that the casual reader may not understand is that in law school, I’m pretty sure there isn’t another branch of law where you will hear more horror stories – many of them from former […]
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