Sep

Amazing Race 27, Episode 1: “A Little Too Much Beefcake”

Posted by John Seavey Published in TV

Now that the dust has settled on the “blind date” experiment, we can now get back to what the Amazing Race does best: Throwing together teams of best friends, dating couples, relatives and co-workers and making them race around the world for a million bucks! Phil’s back, and looking good, I have to say. I […]

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Sep

A Brief Reminder

Posted by John Seavey Published in The Site

The new season of the Amazing Race starts tonight, and the consensus seemed to be that recapping it would once again be welcomed. This time around, I will try to make sure that content appears between each recap, though, so that those of you who aren’t Race fans will have something to come to the […]

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Sep

Wrestlers work longer and harder than they used to

Posted by MGK Published in Wrestling

Was recently surfing the interwebs and saw people arguing about CM Punk’s claim in a 2013 promo that he wrestled more often and harder than the legendary Bruno Sammartino, so he was a greater champion than Sammartino. Obviously, this was a promo, and as such Punk clearly wasn’t making a serious argument about his superiority. […]

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Sep

Review: The League of Regrettable Superheroes

Posted by John Seavey Published in Books, Comics, You Should Read

Sad to say, this isn’t a review of a comic book featuring a collection of D-list superheroes who band together to fight enemies that escape the notice of the heavy hitters. Because that would be awesome. Instead, this is a coffee table book by Jon Morris that describes a number of…let’s just say misguided attempts […]

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Sep

Another Attempt to Explain Privilege With Video Games!

Posted by John Seavey Published in Gaming, Politics

Yes, I know, this has been done before, most notably by John Scalzi. But I think that he muddied the issue slightly by referring to Straight White Male as “The Lowest Difficulty Setting”, because a) there really aren’t any difficulty settings in MMO games, and yes there are people pedantic enough to care about that, […]

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Sep

Because nobody cares

Posted by MGK Published in Canadian Politics, Politics

There’s been a lot of handwringing in the Canadian press over the last forty-eight hours after the photo of Aylan Kurdi dead on the beach went viral. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about and don’t want to see a picture of a dead toddler but also want to know what happened, click here.) […]

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Sep

Things I Love About Comics: Strong Female Protagonist

Posted by John Seavey Published in Comics, You Should Read

The other day, someone mentioned to me that there was a really good webcomic called “Strong Female Protagonist” that should be in the Hugo conversation. They provided a link to www.strongfemaleprotagonist.com in with the comment, and I clicked on that link…and about six hours later I came up for air, having devoured every scrap of […]

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