Jun

Honesty In Comic Book Covers, #7

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Comics, Honesty In Comic Book Covers, Photoshopp'd

Top comment: Y’know how I know he’s evil? He’s sitting on what appears to be a big, uncomfortable chair. And as far as I know, all evil beings hate comfort. — RobotKeaton

31 comments

Jun

On pseudonymity.

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets

The recent outing of John “publius” Blevins by Ed “classless piece of shit” Whelan, while a gross invasion of privacy and obvious proof that Whelan is a limp-dicked coward, prompted me to think about the eventual downfall of psuedonymity in blogging. Because really: it’s only a matter of time. Psuedonymity is great. Blevins explains most […]

12 comments

Jun

Things I Liked This Week And Things I Didn’t

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Flicks, TV

LIKED – Batman and Robin #1 I liked for two reasons. Firstly I liked it because it was a fantastic, fun comic and return to form for “good” Grant Morrison (as opposed to the “eh” Grant Morrison of Final Crisis). But more importantly, I liked it because now I can start a pool wherein whoever […]

10 comments

Jun

A selection of 80s classic songs, as performed on ragtime piano.

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

3 comments

Jun

Friday Scrubs

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

4 comments

Jun

Quick baseless assumptions about this year’s top 20

Posted by MGK Published in TV

– Wow, that is one shitload of contemporary and jazz dancers. By my count there’s one hip-hop dancer (Tony), one pop-and-locker (Philip), two ballroom girls (Asuka and Janette), and one ballroom boy (Maksim – oh, I’m sorry, “Max”). I suppose the ballerina could maybe count as not-a-contemporary dancer if you really want to push it. […]

12 comments

Jun

David Eddings, 1931-2009

Posted by MGK Published in Auf Wiedersehen Goodbye

“We all live as long as we need to.” — Belgarath the Sorcerer Top comment: He’ll probably have two eulogies. One that is archetypal but with some relatively well-written dialogue, and another immediately after that’s pretty much the same thing, except a few names and places changed around. — Rawrasaur

16 comments

Jun

Thursday WHO’S WHO: Dark Opal

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Who's Who

(Hello to all of John Rogers’ close personal friends and relations. My, but there are quite a lot of you.) People nowadays look back at Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld and can’t help but wonder what people were thinking. Nowadays the concept of an ongoing fantasy comics series targeting young girls seems like the sort of […]

46 comments

Jun

It puts the lotion on its skin

Posted by MGK Published in Archie (Improved Or Otherwise), Comics

Recently, the news that Archie will propose to Veronica has been sweeping the nation. Much like how Captain America died or Batman died. Now it is Archie Comics’ turn to temporarily revive the fortunes of a flagging intellectual property through a shamless stunt. Of course, this particular move, like so many others, has been met […]

64 comments

Jun

Now I feel ashamed of my BILLY bookcases

Posted by MGK Published in Books, The Internets

Some weird and awesome bookcases.

13 comments

Jun

Introducing our new political correspondent!

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy

Top comment: Flapjacks Fears La Parka — Jim Smith

24 comments

Jun

“Are they getting louder or dumber?”

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

3 comments

Jun

Olden times

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Here's A Lot Of Photoshops, Photoshopp'd

(Blame these.) Top comment: This is the best post of the month so far. — Sage Freehaven

18 comments

May

Things I Liked This Week And Things I Didn’t

Posted by MGK Published in Books, Flicks, Gaming, TV

LIKED – Pixar films, at this point, are either an A+ (Wall-E), an A (Ratatouille) or an A- (Cars). On this scale, Up is a solid A – not quite reaching the peaks of Pixar but definitely not one of their “lesser” efforts (where “lesser” is something just about any other filmmakers would kill for). […]

14 comments

May