Your judges tonight are Nigel, a surprisingly sane Mary, and a surprisingly non-bitchy Mia Michaels. Carla and Turk Jeanette and Brandon: cha-cha. I got home a bit late and missed this, which was annoying for me. But everybody says it was really good and frankly I think it takes a freight train at this point […]

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CB: “Why I should direct X.” Ha! Loopholes! It’s funny, because I’ve completed four feature-length screenplays. (Two of which are actually reasonably good. The old adage that everybody has to write at least one shit screenplay before they can write a good one is too generous by half, in my case literally.) But I’ve been […]

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A few comments from yesterday’s general blogrequest post were Canada-themed and today is Canada Day and all, so it seems appropriate. Lurkerwithout: Why people who call Canada “socialist” are, you know, stupid Well, they’re kind of not entirely wrong. They’re wrong to directly equate socialism with communism, which they do all the time. But the […]

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I always like to throw one of these out from time to time and give readers the chance to request something particular. I never guarantee anything, but usually there’s a few things I end up wanting to write about thrown into the mix. (No “I should write X” requests. I do those on my own […]

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Meandering opening with only circumstantial connection to actual meat of post, containing one of A) too many nothing connector words for folksy emphasis B) multiple obscenities C) a quote from either The Princess Bride or The Adventures of Baron Munchausen D) all of the above. Secondary paragraph, expanding on opening paragraph so that reader understands […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Top comment: Why the heck DIDN’T they put Grimlock in the new movies? — Beacon Because car companies aren’t manufacturing dinosaurs, I guess. — Evan Waters

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LIKED – Detective Comics featuring Batwoman was as good as everybody says it is, and frankly, given that it’s stupid boring sucky Batwoman, this is nothing short of a miracle even though Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams are the ones doing it. (Let me put it this way: regardless of how good a filmmaker Steven […]

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Do not push the big red button.

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BATMAN: So I saw you fighting another giant robot on television. Luthor again? SUPERMAN: No, this one wasn’t Luthor. BATMAN: Are you sure? SUPERMAN: Of course I’m sure. Why wouldn’t I be sure that it wasn’t Luthor? BATMAN: You tend to believe the best of people too often. I want to be sure this wasn’t […]

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STUPID WOMAN AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE THING: “Hey, my billion-year-old mother got a pacemaker five years ago and she’s still alive because of it even though the doctors said she was too old to get a pacemaker and didn’t want to do the surgery because she might not survive. What do you say to that, […]

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Your guest judge this week is Toni Basil, apparently because the producers felt the need to re-inflict upon us the worst guest judge ever. Karla and Jonathan: hip-hop. I’m generally a big fan of Dave Scott’s choreography and I think I would have liked this routine if it wasn’t danced for crap: Jonathan was absolutely […]

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Everybody has a couple dozen “times I nearly died.” Most of them are uninteresting. For example, this one time I was walking home, didn’t realize a light had just turned red, and nearly got hit by a bus. It missed me by about six inches. But so what? Everybody has a couple dozen stories like […]

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