Dec

Friday ‘Tis The Season

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

Rankin-Bass’ The Life And Adventures of Santa Claus, probably the best one they ever did. Parts 2-5 are on Youtube as well.

18 comments

Dec

Organizational abilities are not a strong point

Posted by MGK Published in Nothing Else Fit

FLAPJACKS: So why aren’t you nominated for this year’s Canadian blog awards? ME: I’m not? FLAPJACKS: Nope. ME: Are you sure? FLAPJACKS: I used your computer and everything. ME: Which reminds me, you owe me half a dozen bagels. FLAPJACKS: I got you bagels. ME: You got me circular bread from Loblaws. Do we have […]

12 comments

Dec

Friendpimpery

Posted by MGK Published in Books

My friend Gemma Files recently finished her novel A Book of Tongues, which I am not sure what it is about offhand, but I know the following things: 1.) It has cowboys shootin’ people in violent bloody gunfights 2.) It has mean badass magic in violent bloody ways 3.) It has gay sex, which may […]

14 comments

Dec

Your horoscope for December 2nd, 2009

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy

Aries (20 March – 19 April). Beware of the following things: cats painted blue, books with “vol. 41” on the spine, speakerphones, Maalox, those little styrofoam packing peanuts, tinned salmon, the Seven of Clubs, toy lightsabers, flavoured gin, the country of Malawi, covered wagons (like the pioneers used), Katie Couric, vitamin water, the cinematic works […]

31 comments

Dec

Inferior American SYTYCD Bloggin’

Posted by MGK Published in Obligatory So You Think You Can Dance Category, TV

Top ten week! New partnerships! No new judges! Mollee still inexplicably present! Noelle and Ryan: hip-hop and smooth waltz. And once again, Tabitha and Napoleon choreograph what’s pretty blatantly a jazz routine, throw in a couple of chest-pumps and HEY IT’S HIP-HOP NOW. It not being hip-hop aside, both Ryan and Noelle danced this quite […]

7 comments

Dec

Another thing I don’t get why it isn’t reprinted and such

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, THIS-IS-AWE-SOME (clapclapclapclapclap)

What is the best thing about The Demon #46-49? Is it black magic zombie Nazis rising to conquer the world? Is it Jason Blood recruiting the retired, elderly crew of the Haunted Tank to fight the black magic zombie Nazis? Is it Etrigan, getting his patriotism – such as it is – on? Is it […]

25 comments

Dec

It’s a bit late, but so what

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Dec

More songs from food vats

Posted by MGK Published in The Miscellaneous Sciences And Crap Like That

Scientists grow meat in petri dishes.

8 comments

Nov

The Perfectly Acceptable Hercules

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

One of the things people routinely ask me to write about is The Incredible Hercules, mostly because it’s a good comic book and they want people to talk about good comic books that “fly under the radar.” Except I’m not sure how The Incredible Hercules can be considered “under the radar,” because everybody fucking talks […]

53 comments

Nov

Spookily awesome

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, WTF

The remains of Underground New Beijing.

13 comments

Nov

A thought on professional sports

Posted by MGK Published in Economics, Sports

I think the existence of Donald Sterling makes the case that the European football club system of league construction (the freewheeling, free-enterprising “to play in the top leagues you have to make an effort”) is superior on multiple points of argument to the American system of league construction (tightly controlled and defined membership). Sterling’s profit […]

28 comments

Nov

Friday Louis CK

Posted by MGK Published in It's The Youtube

4 comments

Nov

Oh no! Unexpected ursine!

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Rex The Motherfucking Wonder Dog

Now, a bear weighs approximately seven hundred and fifty pounds. A large German shepherd weighs about ninety pounds. It should be essentially impossible for a dog to knock over a bear. However, certain dogs have mastered the science of Rexonomics, which enables one, through the use of specific equations, to change one’s own body mass, […]

36 comments

Nov

Inferior American SYTYCD Bloggin’

Posted by MGK Published in Obligatory So You Think You Can Dance Category, TV

Your hosts are the usual gang of idiots. No, not Bill Gaines and Al Jaffee. That might have been entertaining, though. Ellenore and Ryan: Lindy hop and Broadway. Lindy hop hasn’t been on the American show since season 3 when Lacey and Neil struggled through it in the final. This was better than that was, […]

4 comments

Nov