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I kind of love Diablo Cody.

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Because everybody knows the King of Spain vacuums the turf at Skydome. (ASIDE: Note that a much younger Jian Gomeshi performs in this video. Of course, Gomeshi is now better known as the host of Q a fine show upon which I shall be appearing today around 12:30-1 p.m. on CBC Radio 1, available on […]

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WAIT WHAT DC COMICS ARE YOU SERIOUS YOU NAMED A NAZI SUPERVILLAIN AFTER A POISON GAS USED TO KILL JEWS IN THE HOLOCAUST BOY I SURE CAN’T WAIT TO SEE HIM FIGHT JOHNNY QUICK WHAAAAAAAAAAAT because WHAT WHAT WHAT (although, one must admit, still better than Superboy Prime.)

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– I didn’t say anything about Sunday’s show on Sunday because I figure the non-watching-Dance portion of this blog’s audience can only take so much. See? I am thoughtful. – That having been said: watching this with one of my new roommates (who b-boys more than a little, although not at the serious competition level) […]

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…it looks like it’s time to short Washington Mutual. Canadians should be thankful for the essentially risk-averse nature of Canadian banks. If anything gets us through this shitpile, it’s going to be that.

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I’m going to be on Q, CBC’s arts radio show, tomorrow (Thursday) in between 12:30 and 1, talking about the new TV season in my role as Important Critic Person ™. That’s CBC 1, or for those with satellite radio, Sirius 137. EDIT: Or, duh, on the internets.

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THE TORIES “WIN” THE CANADIAN FEDERAL ELECTION IF: They get a majority. That is the goal, pure and simple, and the only way they get an unqualified victory is if they get a majority. This is because financial indicators for the near future are frankly really bad (even with the Canadian banks having more of […]

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Do you every worry about whether you could handle it if you were suddenly teleported to a world where humans and giant dogs communicated through telepathy and engaged in contests of sport? Well, Rex doesn’t. Because he is the motherfucking Wonder Dog.

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This is fucking brilliant.

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(SCENE: a nondescript hotel room, covered with paper, the television tuned to CNN. JOSH, TOBY, SAM, DONNA, and CJ are sitting around the room in various states of concentration.) SAM: (reading aloud) “This election is important, not because it is about change but because it is about choice. As a politician, I choose to present […]

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To all those people emailing me to complain that the political Magic cards post was “too biased for the Democrats,” my response is thus: (image via Weasel King)

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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One of the reasons I think the Waid/Kitson threeboot version of the Legion was fatally flawed from the outset is that its concept of making the Legion an oppositional force was wholly at odds with the core Legion concept, which tends to be utopian and status-quo defending rather than revolutionary and game-changing. Sure, you could […]

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I’ve been seeing this diary start to get passed around the internets as “proof” of the John McCain campaign’s ineptitude – that they didn’t buy McCain Foods’ hyperlink before the campaign. People. McCain Foods is fucking gigantic. They make about six billion dollars a year in revenue and they’re a Canadian company so there isn’t […]

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