So here’s a question I’ve been pondering for a while now: If you were to find someone in the early stages of geekery…a “proto-geek”, if you will, with an interest in cult fiction but no knowledge of it to speak of, what would you feel like they’d need to know to develop a useful cultural […]

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Dec

Single-sentence review of Les Miserables

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

I can safely say without making any allusions to the film’s quality (which I thought was quite good overall) that this movie is going to win all the Academy Awards, and possibly some of next year’s if they can figure out a way to give the filmmakers those.

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Dec

The Responsibility To Ignore

Posted by John Seavey Published in Comics, Film/TV, Flicks, General Nerd Crap, General Nerd Shit

When I wrote last week’s post, about how it it’s okay to form opinions on things you haven’t seen yet, and even to not change those opinions in the face of opposition from people who have seen those things, many people pointed out the perilous downside to this. Which is that, just as we have […]

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Dec

Single-Sentence Review of This Is 40

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

I really wish Django Unchained hadn’t been sold out because really, This Is 40 When You Are Stupidly Well-Off would have been a much better title for the latest from Judd Apatow’s Wildly Uneven Movie Factory.

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Dec

Our holiday tradition

Posted by MGK Published in It's The Youtube, Muzak

I know some of you readers might choose to celebrate Vandalhkah rather than No Doubtmas, and we celebrate diversity of course, but this is how we do things here:

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Dec

And miles to go before I open presents

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Dec

part five, page twenty-six

Posted by MGK Published in Al'Rashad, Comics

Click on thumb to see full As always, you can also go to the dedicated Al’Rashad site.

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Dec

The Right To Ignore

Posted by John Seavey Published in Film/TV, General Nerd Crap, General Nerd Shit

I still haven’t seen ‘Revolution’. Honestly, I don’t even know if it’s been picked up for a second season, or whether it’s going to be another one of those post-‘Lost’ series that the networks poured money into hoping to catch lightning in a bottle a second time only to see it die a quick and […]

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Dec

Shorter National Review Online

Posted by MGK Published in Politics, WTF

“Newtown Answers” Charlotte Allen: This massacre might not have happened if some manly men were working at the school rather than weak, helpless women. Jim Daly: The massacre was horrible, but it’s Christmas! Anthony Daniels: The problem is that people think they deserve to be happy. Also, psychology is bullshit. Charles A. Donovan: It was […]

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Dec

Boo for predictability

Posted by MGK Published in Canadian Politics, Politics, The Internets

And my Villain for Torontoist this year is the same as it is every year. There is a longstanding theory that people learn from experience, but Rob Ford seems dedicated to demonstrating that this theory does not have to be universal.

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Dec

Hooray for social justice

Posted by MGK Published in Canadian Politics, I Really Should Have A Sociology Category, The Internets

Torontoist does its yearly Heroes and Villains at the end of every year, and my hero was the Toronto Marlies, for their equality pledge. (My Villain is still forthcoming. Regulars can, uh, probably guess.)

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Dec

Not kosher

Posted by MGK Published in It's The Youtube

Sex House was pretty brilliant, but The Onion’s new serial Youtube comedy is probably even darker than it was: (Total runtime of all the episodes is about an hour and change.)

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Dec