My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Click on thumb to see full As always, you can also go to the dedicated Al’Rashad site.

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Dave Lartigue did this a while back and I thought it was a good idea, so I’m stealing it. I am always looking for new music to add to my iPod playlist, so: recommend five songs to me. Any genre. Whatever you feel like recommending. (WARNING: I am not historically a fan of any metal […]

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David Uzimeri on Twitter complained thusly: legitimately sad shailene woodley won't be mary jane because i'm still annoyed by the nerds saying she wasn't hot enough — David Uzumeri (@DavidUzumeri) January 21, 2014 And I had heard nothing of this, mostly because I tend to ignore nerd news about casting unless people make a fuss […]

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My weekly tv column is up at Torontoist.

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Click on thumb to see full As always, you can also go to the dedicated Al’Rashad site.

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Voting is now open for the 2013 rec.sport.pro-wrestling Awards. You can vote HERE. Following the nominations period, we have compiled all of the nominations into pulldown menus to make voting faster and easier (since the pulldown menus should include most, if not all, of the most popular candidates for each award), while still allowing for […]

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So we are well into 2014, and commenters have had their chance to answer as many questions in the 2013 Not the King William’s College Quiz, and have mostly done fairly well. A few questions I thought were gimmes just got missed, a few I thought were stumpers got answered quickly, that sort of thing. […]

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A lot of kafuffle was raised yesterday about Michael Douglas being cast as Hank Pym in the Ant-Man movie. First off, we’re not sure why there is kafuffle anyway because come on, it’s Ant-Man for crissake, it’s not like we’re recasting Wolverine or anybody important, it’s just Ant-Man, whose superhero name is a punchline and […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Click on thumb to see full As always, you can also go to the dedicated Al’Rashad site.

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High Fidelity was in fact originally about boardgames. True story. Bruges. I usually hate Stefan Feld games because they are all recipes for getting victory points (he also put out Bora Bora this year, and that is a game where literally every single action, even passing, gives you points) and little else; they mostly seem […]

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This image is from High Fidelity because top fives and also now it is a running theme for this week’s posts. Gravity. People complain that it loses a little oomph the second time through because the second time through all of Alfonso Cuaron’s brilliant direction isn’t a novelty any more, but whatever, it’s still brilliant. […]

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This image is from High Fidelity because top fives. If you don’t get the reference, you are horribly uncultured. Papers, Please. Everybody likes to talk about how big-budget AAA titles force us into difficult moral decisions, but realistically they almost never do. You do the bad thing to get to the next cutscene, that’s it, […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. Also, if you missed it because of the holidays and wassailing and the like, last week I posted the second annual Not Quite The King William’s College Quiz and commenters thus far are not even half-finished and haven’t even identified all of the categories yet, which means […]

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