Jan

Of course by now all you need is a Mr. Fusion anyway.

Posted by MGK Published in WTF

“I’m sure that in 1985 plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it’s a little hard to come by!”

Jan

Thursday WHO’S WHO: The Boy Commandos

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Who's Who

DC has oft-times gone to ridiculous extent to justify its tradition of kid sidekicks and teenaged superheroes. But every so often you come across one that they quietly swept under the rug – specifically the stupidest possible concepts they came up with. This is one such. Yes, it is the Kiddie Version of DC’s tradition […]

23 comments

Jan

Libertarians: Still Retards

Posted by MGK Published in WTF

From the mindset that brought you the idea that seceding from the United States was viable in any way, shape or form comes the first early contender for Stupidest News Story of 2009: libertarians spend large amounts of money to invent new ways to create independent floating countries. Now, seaborne libertarian paradises are nothing new. […]

64 comments

Jan

How Not To Program A Robot Shoplifter

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

Might want to strip out the commentary-upon-current-action commands there. I’m just saying. Would anybody have noticed that robot stealing those clothes otherwise?

5 comments

Jan

This Blog Is Good

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets

Okay, so right now there’s only the inaugural post, but you should all bookmark Andrew Wheeler’s new blog because Wheeler is a great writer and funny man and he deserves success. Not as much success as me, obviously, but, you know. Success.

3 comments

Jan

As always

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

4 comments

Jan

It’s cool, it’s cool

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Conversations

FLAPJACKS: So did you win a Weblog Award yet? ME: No, I wasn’t even nominated. FLAPJACKS: But I thought you tried to get people to nominate you? ME: No, I tried to get them to nominate me for the Bloggies. FLAPJACKS: But it says here that the Bloggies are the weblog awards. ME: They’re weblog […]

13 comments

Jan

This is pretty wicked

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks, The Internets

A collection of Polish movie posters (as in “Polish posters for Hollywood movies”, not “posters for Polish movies”). Seeing these reminds me of an old exhibition of hand-painted African posters for Hollywood movies; the artists took a lot of liberties (I notably remember a poster for The Empire Strikes Back where C-3P0 was wearing a […]

7 comments

Jan

The Environmental Case For Eating (Some) Meat

Posted by MGK Published in David Suzuki Says You're Bad, Om Nom Nom Nom

I recently got into an argument with a friend who is vegetarian about vegetarianism. For the record, I am not one of those people who thinks vegetarianism is stupid or proof of lack of moral character or something. I am similarly not one of those people who fetishizes the act of eating meat. (You know, […]

34 comments

Jan

Shit, The Hippies May Have Been Right

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

The universe may just be a giant hologram.

11 comments

Jan

Friday Gilmore Girls

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

8 comments

Jan

Thursday WHO’S WHO: Axis Amerika

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Who's Who

“Hey, what would the Justice League be like if they were Nazis?” This is a question that has been posed to the comics reader again and again and again. Frankly by this point it is kind of boring. But luckily, here is one of the earlier iterations of the answer! If Superman was a Nazi […]

34 comments

Jan