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

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Liked it well enough (caveat: saw it in non-3D, non-48-frames-per-second-vision), but I have no idea how they think they get three movies out of this when the movie ends, unsurprisingly, about halfway through the damn book, and that is with all the extra stuff from the Indexes to LOTR thrown in and more besides.

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Over at Torontoist, I participated in a roundtable discussion about the Toronto Raptors. And then, of course, the Raptors promptly won a game, presumably out of spite.

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Quick question: Am I the only one who wants to see Star Trek Into Darkness that doesn’t care what villain Benedict Cumberbatch is playing?  Because sometimes it feels like I am. More and more it seems to me like the rebooted Trek franchise is being treated like a superhero movie series, where fandom thinks the […]

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Contemplation on the responsibility of power, check. Massive earth-shattering action, check. Superman’s faith in the common man, check. About the only thing I’m not sold on is Lois Lane as a non-brunette, but other than that, yeah, I’ll be lining up like fuck for this one.

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So occasionally I tweet something about a board game I have played recently and I got a few emails asking for more comprehensive run-downs, so why not. The Great Zimbabwe is Splotter Spellen‘s latest game – it was introduced in September at the Essen games fair, and shipped shortly thereafter. (As an addendum to the […]

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Click on thumb to see full Apologies for the lateness, but Technical Difficulties. You know how it is, right? Right. As always, you can also go to the dedicated Al’Rashad site.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Unfortunately, my internet at home is down because I made the mistake of thinking that maybe I should upgrade my internet to something that wouldn’t require me to pre-cache a lousy YouTube video and would actually make me consider subscribing to Netflix. The punchline here is I live in Canada and expecting the internet people […]

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Hey, this is the Tech Guy. We’ve got a new social network widget here. The old one wasn’t working reliably with Facebook, due to something on their end. To use the new widget, just mouse over or click on the placeholder graphic below the post – below the older sharing buttons. Compared to using the […]

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ROM’s been in the news lately; Hasbro filed once again for the trademark on the property, prompting speculation that we may be in for a revival of the character. Personally, I don’t care so much about seeing future adventures as I do about getting reprints; if Marvel does get the rights back, the smart thing […]

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Pleased to announce that mgkdotcom is now the sort-of-official tabulation site for the 2012 rec.sport.pro-wrestling Awards, the oldest and awesomest wrestling fan-awards tradition going on the internet. Nominations have started now and we are open for business there; voting begins January 1. DECEMBER 8 UPDATE: Due to overwhelming response, we are publishing the first iteration […]

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EDIT: of course I typo the image URL the day I’m in court for five hours. Fixed.

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So this teaser poster for Man of Steel is making the rounds: And of course there is nerd rage because nerds are all “why is Superman letting them put him in cuffs” and “this is so stupid, Superman can bust out of the handcuffs whenever he wants” and “this better not be some stupid thing […]

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MGK’S BROTHER JEFF: Hey, did you watch Saturday Night Live last night? MGK: No, I was out. JEFF: I meant “did you watch it later, like Sunday afternoon or something.” MGK: Oh. No. JEFF: I wouldn’t want to suggest you aren’t a social dervish. MGK: Of course not. JEFF: Out at the clubs. Working the […]

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