Jul

While GM And Ford Were Holding Their Dicks

Posted by MGK Published in David Suzuki Says You're Bad, The Miscellaneous Sciences And Crap Like That

…Tata Motors developed the world’s first commercially mass-produced car run off compressed air.

Jul

One sentence review.

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

There are many reasons to see The Dark Knight, many of which have been repeated elsewhere many times over, but I will merely say this: any movie starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman which trusts one of its most powerful and emotional moments to Tiny Lister, and […]

56 comments

Jul

Welcome!

Posted by MGK Published in Canadian Politics, Politics, WTF

To the fine folks of Muslims Against Sharia (located in the well-known Islamic enclave of Omaha, Nebraska – not that I am questioning their Islamic credentials, because god knows if there’s one thing moderate Muslims like doing, it’s defending Michael Savage). They’ve seen fit to issue a drive-by comment, reprimanding all of us who might […]

20 comments

Jul

Friday Titus

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

1 comment

Jul

Who Watches The Watchmen (Online In A Compressed Video Format)?

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Comics, Conversations, Flicks

ME: So apparently the trailer for Watchmen will run in front of The Dark Knight. FLAPJACKS: Because they are both comic book movies. I get that! ME: Yes. FLAPJACKS: Maybe they could run a trailer for the new Terminator in front of it as well, because they both have Christian Bale in the movie. And […]

45 comments

Jul

SYTYCD Bloggin’

Posted by MGK Published in Obligatory So You Think You Can Dance Category, TV

L’il C: s’rprisingly d’cent j’dge. Courtney and Joshua: hip hop and rumba. The hip-hop was solid (Dave Scott! Finally a good hip-hop choreographer who doesn’t have to blend in lyrical form! About goddamned time); a charming mini-plotline, entertainingly danced. The judges more or less got it right: Joshua nailed it and Courtney didn’t but was […]

4 comments

Jul

A Shameful, Worthless Hack

Posted by MGK Published in Canadian Politics, Politics

Regular readers will know full well that I have no love for Stephen Harper, considering him a feckless, short-sighted and generally mean-spirited individual. His stance on the repatriation of Omar Khadr does nothing to change this opinion. Let us recap: Omar Khadr was arrested as a child soldier in the Afghanistan war when he was […]

13 comments

Jul

I Get Letters

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, I Should Write The Legion

From the email inbox: Hey – I love reading your I Should Write The Legion things, but writing is only half of a comic. So my question is – who would be your ideal artist(s) for the Legion when you get to write them? Firstly, I feel it’s important to emphasize that, although I appreciate […]

13 comments

Jul

Dear Animation People

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Flicks, Nothing Else Fit

Look. I know it’s not your fault that DC’s direct-to-DVD movies have been largely mediocre thus far, but come on: Wonder Woman should not have a face that looks kind of like a horse. I mean, it is Wonder Woman, she’s supposed to be an athletic paragon of female beauty and stuff. She should not […]

25 comments

Jul

I AM the internets

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Jul

Movies You Have Not Seen But You Should See (Because They Are Good) #13

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks, Movies You Have Not Seen But Should See

One thing movies tend to do for the most part really badly is portray realistic geniuses. I mean geniuses, not just smart people. The people whose brains run on different tracks. Almost uniformly these characters get slotted into two tracks: the comic relief nerd (Egon in Ghostbusters) or the crazy savant (for example, the horrifically […]

13 comments

Jul

We Are All Appeasers

Posted by MGK Published in Nothing Else Fit

Shocking story from this blog post: Sunday, a Muslim woman scolded me for inappropriate behavior in her neighborhood. I was running up Bedford toward Williamsburg, following a part of the marathon course I often branch from to go over the bridge into Manhattan for a longer run. That day I elected to just do a […]

33 comments

Jul