Not unexpected, given the pancreatic cancer, but even so.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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The Jack White “Where The Fuck Is The Fucking Bass” Award For The Pretty Great Song That Would Be An All-Time Classic If It Had A Fucking Bass Line goes to “Stillness Is The Move” by Dirty Projectors. Because, damn, just imagine this song with a thumping bass groove to counter those airy vocals and […]

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Recently there has been an internet kerfuffle about a scene in Amazing Spider-Man #603, wherein the Chameleon, while impersonating Peter Parker, has sex with Peter’s roommate Michelle (because she of course believes him to be Peter). A number of fans have called out writer Fred Van Lente for using rape as a plot device in […]

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That’s what the gasping throes of modern conservatism has left in the tank. That’s what they’ve got. Twenty years. Don’t be afraid by Michelle Malkin claiming two million people showed up: the police estimates are thirty thousand plus. (Besides, we already know what two million people on the Mall looks like.) In twenty years, the […]

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During World War II the British Americans couldn’t chance the Germans Japanese blowing up their largest airplane factory – so they hid it. EDIT: I literally have no idea how that happened.

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I realize you’re real busy tracing lightboxing photocopying drawing comic books and all, but I’ve got a question. So I am looking at the Marvel solicits and I see a solicit for a new Black Widow series, and you’re doing the cover. So… …since when is the Black Widow a double amputee? Is this going […]

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Your guest judges this week are Sean Cheeseman and Melissa Williams, bringing the Cancon and the actually capable judging. Kim and Emanuel: jazz/funk./ I am coming to understand that “jazz/funk” as a genre actually means “Blake McGrath is a pervert.” This is the sort of routine that really serves Emanuel well: heavy on character, so […]

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this is probably the closest we will get to a Rex The Wonder Dog teevee show any time soon.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. Also, now that I am the Managing Editor and Big Chief Hoo-Hah at thecourt.ca, I don’t really write posts there any more so much as I run the place. That having been said, this post about the Prime Minister’s office appealing the Khadr case to the Supreme […]

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Deep-fried butter.

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LIKED – Extract isn’t quite on the level of Mike Judge’s other brilliant comedies, but it’s still damn funny; Jason Bateman, JK Simmons, Kirsten Wiig, and Clifton Collins Jr. are all fantastic (and Beth Grant deserves a shout-out for creating the most hilariously annoying character ever; seriously, you will wish she would get run over […]

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