Feb

Amazing Race Recap: “I Got the Smartest Dude”

Posted by John Seavey Published in Nothing Else Fit

Since the Amazing Race did a Wednesday premiere before settling in on its regular night, you’re getting two recaps in pretty short succession. I hope this is a positive for most of you. 🙂

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Feb

Leonard Nimoy, 1931-2015

Posted by MGK Published in Auf Wiedersehen Goodbye

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Feb

Amazing Race Recap: “Great Way to Start a Relationship”

Posted by John Seavey Published in Film/TV, TV

One of the big reasons I’ve usually resisted recapping ‘The Amazing Race’ is because I’ll be honest, I always felt like Television Without Pity already did the same thing and they did it better than I could. (You can feel free to jump in and boost my ego in the comments, but it’s not required.) […]

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Feb

the Aussies will get their revenge by adapting Parks and Rec

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Feb

On the Street Where I Live

Posted by John Seavey Published in Politics (Other)

The neighborhood I live in now is a lot like the one I lived in when I grew up. It’s a little suburb of a big city (Minneapolis now, St Paul then) with rows of little tract houses filled with friendly, happy families. There’s a mall nearby, and although it’s a bit bigger than the […]

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Feb

The 2014 Theszies (rec.sport.pro-wrestling Awards) – RESULTS POST

Posted by MGK Published in Interactive Fun Time Party, The RSPW Awards / The Theszies, Wrestling

Welcome to the results of the 2014 Theszies / Rec.sport.pro-wrestling Awards. This year we officially hit 1,000 voters – and I mean exactly 1,000 voters, after we manually eliminated the usual bunch of duplicate/scam voters (seriously, guys, why do you do that, it just makes this all take longer). We came out to exactly one […]

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Feb

My comparison of Michael Coren to a ringworm was edited out

Posted by MGK Published in Canadian Politics

Torontoist asked me to write a eulogy for the now-departed Sun News Network.

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Feb

Triple H and judging without judging

Posted by MGK Published in Wrestling

So last night Triple H appeared on Stone Cold Steve Austin’s wrestling podcast (LIVE ON THE WWE NETWORK ONLY NINE NINETY NINE MAGGLE) and spoke for about an hour, non-kayfabe, about the challenges of booking pro wrestling in an era where everybody who wants to know anything about wrestling can essentially know at least half […]

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Feb