Jan

A Memory Of Light is Goddamned Fantastic

Posted by MGK Published in Books

(Major spoilers in this post, obviously, for the whole Wheel of Time series, and for the fourteenth book specifically. You have been warned.) So my copy of A Memory of Light arrived on Tuesday and I basically spent the last week reading it, and – as the post title indicates – it is great. Basically […]

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Jan

Alternate Universes Are the Fan Equivalent of Porn

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

When I said that to my wife a bit ago, she looked at me and said, “I have no idea what you mean by that.” I’m kind of assuming you feel the same way, so I’ll explain. A traditional ‘alternate universe’ story, which is something that just about every sci-fi/fantasy series gets to from time […]

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Jan

The 2013 Crashies For Offensiveness In Oscar Nominations

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

BEST PICTURE: Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty Crashie Rating (out of 10): 3. Beasts of the Southern Wild is a giant fucking gimmick of a movie, but it’s harder to get irritated about Best Picture nominations when there are […]

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Jan

Things I really liked in 2012, part one

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks, Gaming, TV

MOVIES: Looper. Rock-solid performances from Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt, a fun turn from Jeff Daniels (including the year’s best movie one-liner), and a plot that, while not scientifically consistent, delivered on the emotional arcs of all concerned while providing a healthy supply of action. Easily my favorite movie of 2012. Chronicle. I […]

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Jan

All The Improvements In The Archie

Posted by MGK Published in Archie (Improved Or Otherwise), Comics, Interactive Fun Time Party

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Jan

Joe Schmo 4 has to be a wedding-themed competitive reality show of some kind

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Jan

part five, page twenty-eight

Posted by MGK Published in Al'Rashad, Comics

Click on thumb to see full And that is how we wrap up issue five of the comic. As always, you can also go to the dedicated Al’Rashad site.

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Jan

The 2012 Rec.sport.pro-wrestling Awards – CALL FOR VOTES

Posted by MGK Published in Interactive Fun Time Party, Wrestling

Voting is now open for the 2012 rec.sport.pro-wrestling awards. Following the nominations period, we have compiled all of the nominations into pulldown menus to make voting faster and easier (since the pulldown menus should include most, if not all, of the most popular candidates for each award), while still allowing for write-in votes for those […]

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Jan

Things I Love About Comics: John Byrne’s Fantastic Four

Posted by John Seavey Published in Comics

I will freely admit, it has been a long, long time since John Byrne has been the kind of potent creative force he was back in the late 70s/early 80s. I don’t know how much of that is him being out of step with current comics trends, and how much of it is him starting […]

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Jan

Single-sentence review of Django Unchained

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

It’s very good, of course, but Tarantino is never going to make a truly great movie again until somebody forces him to cut a movie down to under two hours, because he always wants to put in all the things and while the extra stuff is usually entertaining it’s almost never necessary.

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Jan

The Not Quite The King William’s College Quiz

Posted by MGK Published in General Nerd Crap, Interactive Fun Time Party

So, the King William’s College Quiz has come and gone another year, and as always, I was barely able to answer anything, but then again the real point of the Quiz is to go on a knowledge scavenger hunt. And it seems a shame that there is only one per year. So here is a […]

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Jan

Happy New Year

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

Proof that 2013 has quite a bit of fucking up in order to match 2012: I dunno. It’s no Ponponpon, but it’s still pretty weird. PSY doesn’t even begin to measure up to the glorious tiny mountain of WTF that is Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.

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