Jan

The Hole in the Wall: A Childhood Reminiscense

Posted by John Seavey Published in "Original", Writering

I should preface this story by explaining that my parents have always told me that I had a very vivid imagination as a child. They said I was always prone to flights of fancy and wild stories, even though I remember being a peculiarly practical child in my own way. Still, I’ve always figured they […]

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Jan

Top Five of 2013: Boardgames

Posted by MGK Published in Gaming

High Fidelity was in fact originally about boardgames. True story. Bruges. I usually hate Stefan Feld games because they are all recipes for getting victory points (he also put out Bora Bora this year, and that is a game where literally every single action, even passing, gives you points) and little else; they mostly seem […]

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Jan

Top Five of 2013: Movies

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

This image is from High Fidelity because top fives and also now it is a running theme for this week’s posts. Gravity. People complain that it loses a little oomph the second time through because the second time through all of Alfonso Cuaron’s brilliant direction isn’t a novelty any more, but whatever, it’s still brilliant. […]

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Jan

Top Five of 2013: Vidyagames

Posted by MGK Published in Gaming

This image is from High Fidelity because top fives. If you don’t get the reference, you are horribly uncultured. Papers, Please. Everybody likes to talk about how big-budget AAA titles force us into difficult moral decisions, but realistically they almost never do. You do the bad thing to get to the next cutscene, that’s it, […]

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Jan

CRIIIIIIMMMMMEEEEEEEEER!

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. Also, if you missed it because of the holidays and wassailing and the like, last week I posted the second annual Not Quite The King William’s College Quiz and commenters thus far are not even half-finished and haven’t even identified all of the categories yet, which means […]

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Jan

part seven, page seventeen

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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Jan

Things I Love About Comics: Tomb of Dracula

Posted by John Seavey Published in Comics

‘Tomb of Dracula’ was, quite frankly, a nightmare brief. It was a horror comic published in the wake of a decision to loosen some of the strictures of the Comics Code, following a gang of intrepid vampire hunters led by the descendant of Van Helsing as they attempted to destroy the Lord of Vampires, Dracula. […]

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Jan

Capes and cowls optional

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

You can go over to Torontoist and read my three nominees for Heroes and Villains 2013: Tatiana Maslany, the Toronto Zoo’s elephant move, and The Raptor. (The Raptor piece was written before the Toronto Raptors went on a serious tear and actually look like a for-real basketball team for the first time in a loooooong […]

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Jan