“Like House, but with wizards.” That’s always been one of my favorite single-sentence ideas for a Dr. Strange series. The problem, of course, is that in the Marvel Universe right now there is a distinct… shortage of sorcerers, wizards, mages and so forth. The Scarlet Witch is crazy and/or depowered, and even before that she […]

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Okay, Glenn Beck is a crazy dumbass, we all knew that. But, notwithstanding the suggestion that G20 protestors and anti-taxation “Tea Partiers” are on the same wavelength despite not having anything in ideological common with one another at all except that they are displeased by something their governments are doing – seriously, each side’s likely […]

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April is a busy month for me – final exams and all – so I decided to get most of it done in advance. And you know what that meant, right? One day, you wake up, and blue is gone. I don’t mean blue things. The things are still there: bluebells, the sky and sea, […]

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Top comment: Right ’cause a sheep can’t enjoy its sexuality without being labeled a slut! Such a double standard! Typical of this anthropocentric humanthiarcal society! Dworkin was right: all interspecies sex is rape! I long for the day this is not true and the sheep are finally treated as equals! — Al

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My good friend (and occasional commenter) Charlotte has started a fine and interesting blog devoted to books here, which I highly recommend to any bibliophile, because girl can write about books.

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Ezra Levant on George Galloway’s being barred from entering Canada: Good friends, and friends of freedom of speech say I’m not being consistent — that I should be for Galloway’s right to be wrong. I am; I don’t think he should be arrested for being a racist, terrorist-loving buffoon. I think he should be arrested […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Kids explain what they like about Toronto.

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Matt Taibbi’s rant about the infamous “DeSantis letter” in the New York Times.

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What’s the best “rescue” moment in an action movie? The moment when the hero is absolutely fucked, completely about to get killed/ass-kicked/etc. by the villains in violent manner, and then suddenly his friend/ally shows up, fighting ensues, and the hero is (for the moment) saved? My vote goes to The Crow, when Eric Draven is […]

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I fucking love the Forgotten Villains. Look at them. These are old-school villains, who know the value of a good maniacal laugh, who know that good henchmen are hard to find but easy to slaughter in a fit of rage, who know that if you haven’t given the hero at least one tiny way to […]

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(It’s the last page of the first issue of Oracle: Battle For The Cowl.) Top comment: Apparently the RIAA is not kidding around with copy protection. — malakim2099

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Top comment: And I bet Mel Gibson’s dad STILL denies that any of this really happened! — Cookie McCool

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