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The end of gallium.

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(NOTE: Due to a staggering lack of home internet connectivity, no Who’s Who entry this week. Sorry.) The problem with having Napoleon and Tabitha as judges is that apparently the only other hip-hop choreographers available to SYTYCD right now are Cicely and Alyssa. This is problematic, because Cicely and Olisa’s specialty is a subsection of […]

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As a further bit of explanation, and to demonstrate where I’m coming from, I will go through this week’s offerings and tell you how I plan to consume them. My rampant downloading will no doubt anger some comics professionals, but until that new copyright bill gets ass-rammed through Parliament I’m not technically breaking the law […]

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Lister Sage, in comments from the previous post: Maybe the biggest problem with comics is not the direct market, it’s not the price, it’s not even that kids aren’t reading them, maybe the problem is the general reluctance of people nowadays to just sit down and read. Newspaper sales have been getting poorer and poorer […]

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I’ve argued before for a new delivery model for comics as necessary to keep the business alive in the long term. Before I go any further discussing it, let’s tack on one more reason why going to a download-supporting sales model is a good move for comics companies: the electronic transfer of .cbr files is […]

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Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to get me some ribs. Happy Canada Day.

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On the rare occasions I eat at McDonald’s, I almost always get the same thing: two regular hamburgers and a medium fries. It’s what I like at McDonald’s. The bigger hamburgers, I have discovered, after much consumption thereof and time spent actually tasting the food, are nasty and I do not like them. And large […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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The old standby: the movie quote quiz. Full points for guessing movie title, actor, and character, so a possible three points per flick, up till question #34, which is a trick question and therefore worth one point. NO FAIR USING GOOGLE. If I find out you cheated and used Google (I am not sure how […]

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Truck full of fire extinguishers catches fire.

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#2,491,017: Spaniards, when they are excitedly celebrating a football victory, will play impromptu games of “toreadoro” with oncoming bicyclists as the bull, themselves as the matador and the Spanish (or sometimes Canadian) flag as the cape. #2,491,018: If by doing this, a Spaniard causes you to crash your bicycle into something hard and unpleasant when […]

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I’ll just let Emma Donoghue say what needs to be said, as she was so eloquent on the CBC earlier this month: In Ireland, it’s a constant fight for basic civil rights. Chris wouldn’t be recognized as the parent of my children and every day would be a struggle. Here in Canada, though, I can […]

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Everybody else has already said it and probably more eloquently, but: if you have not already done so, go see WALL-E as quickly as humanly possible. It is probably the best picture Pixar have ever made. Let me repeat that to make sure it sinks in: this is the best movie that Pixar Studios have […]

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