VIA THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE Lausanne, Switzerland January 7, 2012 TO: Mr. Flap Jacks FROM: G. Elkington, Personal Assistant to Danny Boyle Dear Mr. Jacks: Thank you for your recent correspondence and suggestions regarding the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England. Mr. Boyle was quite pleased to receive your letters (all […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Earlier this week, I posted my thoughts for where to go with another Batman movie, now that Christopher Nolan seems to have wrapped up his “Dark Knight” trilogy. Little did I know that Newsarama and io9 were both planning to rip me off, albeit with more actual speculation about where to go next and fewer […]

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Your guest judge this week is Christina Applegate, which – okay. She was much better than many other celebrity guest judges. Tiffany and George: hip-hop. This was quite good and reasonably hard-hitting, and weirdly Nigel complains that the hip-hop routines aren’t “grungy” enough on the show, which – well, that’s quite true, but come on, […]

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My friend Jonathan Balofsky wanted to comment on something re: the internet and WWE, and it ties into a longer post I’ve been wanting to write, so take it away, Jon: Recently, New York Post sportswriter Phil Mushnick once again took aim at the WWE and Vince McMahon over the large number of wrestlers to […]

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Let’s face it, we all know that ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ is likely to be the end of the Christopher Nolan Batman continuity. He did two good movies and one truly excellent one (I’ll leave it to you to decide which one you think was the excellent one, but hint: It had the Joker in […]

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We here at mightygodking dot com have, in recent days, seen a lot of nerds complaining about The Dark Knight Rises, which is the latest movie starring Batman and therefore something which will be controversial among nerds. In an attempt to placate those more outraged nerds out there, we offer up the following list of […]

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Things have been a little light here this week because Torontoist asked me to review the latest report into the events at the G20 Summit here in Toronto back in 2010, and it took me a while to plow through it. But if you want my take on this one, it is here.

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FLAPJACKS: So your problem is that nobody likes you and everybody hates you? Is that more or less the problem? It sounds like the problem. MITT ROMNEY: Well, I wouldn’t necessarily say – FLAPJACKS: Right, so nobody likes you and everybody hates you. That’s not a problem. We can work with this. So… hm. There’s […]

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Starting when I was nine or so, during the summer and on weekends I would try to stay up as late as possible. This is not unusual for kids, of course, but I was moderately creative about it: I would read in bed with a flashlight, and then, when I heard my mom go to […]

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My weely TV column is up at Torontoist.

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