CONTROVERSY as this week’s TV column, rather than having the traditional dichotomy of five images, has FOUR images with the American Idol bit taking up two of five slots (because it is on twice during the week). Begin discussing how much Simon Cowell paid me to do this… right now!

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PETA – and just those four letters together should alert most people to the fact that this is gonna be a doozy – has decided that the best way to convince people to stop eating fish is to rename them “sea kittens.” There are Sea Kitten Facts. Many male sea kittens woo potential partners by […]

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Some forum kid over at Comic Book Resources is running a poll for “best comics dog.” Their options are Krypto, Lockjaw, Bandit from We3 and “other.” Okay, let’s be clear here. Lockjaw is a really dumb dog. That is not just opinion: that is canon. If it wasn’t for his ability to teleport Lockjaw would […]

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Or are Oreo cookies nowadays made with much gooier creme filling than they used to be, and is this not expressly because they wanted to make Oreos easier to twist open so you can lick the creme? I mean, it used to be that maybe you could twist open maybe one in two Oreos, and […]

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Jayisgames is doing a vote-off for the best web-games of 2008, and I include the link because my entire purpose in life is to make other people waste precious time so they don’t create precious works of art, properly parent children or bring about world peace.

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So the nominations for the 2009 Bloggies have begun, and although I think the odds of winning anything are relatively low, I’d certainly like to try getting nominated in any of the following categories: Best Canadian Most Humourous Best Written Best Kept-Secret So if you’re willing to go to the trouble of nominating me (and […]

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So I’ve gotten a bit of mail about CUPE Ontario’s decision to recommend a “ban” on Israeli academics in Canadian universities, most likely because I’m currently attending Osgoode Hall Law School, which is at York, which is the subject of a prolonged strike on the part of CUPE. And… well, what is there to say, […]

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John McCain Smoothies that come in a bottle Skrulls Youtube videos where the editor takes a metal or gangsta rap song and has animated characters or Muppets “sing” the words Pretending to care about Jennifer Aniston “TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!” Heidi and Spencer Pomengranate […]

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…thing that was awesome about 2008: “Propane Nightmares” by Pendulum. The thing I like about this – well. Obviously it’s a great song, but on top of that… See, when I originally went into film a long time ago, part of it was because I loved – and was good at – constructing trailers in […]

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“Pork and Beans” by Weezer and “So What” by Pink. 2008 was a really great year for “fuck you” songs, as the general frustration of the world with stupid bullshit finally hit its boiling point, and these were two of the best. Weezer’s song was “Fuck you, I’m a nerd” and Pink’s was “Fuck you, […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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2008 was a year that produced many singular and outstanding creative works. These were not those. Waltz with Bashir. One of the most overrated films of the year, the recipient of far too many movie-critic blowjobs to count. Admittedly, the idea of a documentary presented entirely in rotoscopic animation is novel, but one novel idea […]

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So Matt Smith is the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who. Does anybody else, upon watching the BBC video, think that producers wanted to/were told to get someone “David Tennant-y”? Because that’s what Matt Smith seems like – a low-rent version of David Tennant, and worse one who doesn’t seem to innately understand […]

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