The amount of drama and sheer stupidity being generated by the Livejournal Advisory Board election is beyond belief. For those of you wise enough to stay the hell away from Livejournal (“going downhill since 2005”), a brief summary. The Livejournal Advisory Board is exactly what it sounds like: a bunch of people who advise Livejournal […]

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Twitter. I utterly fail to see the appeal of Twitter. Understand that I am someone who is online a lot – I am not offering up the standard crank “why you kids playin’ with those danged computers dang it” rant here. But this need for total connectedness is beyond me, and frankly it’s not even […]

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If anything, Sydney Pollack’s legacy isn’t his roster of great character acting roles, nor his reasonable slate of directorial work. It’s his work as a producer – the most thankless of roles in the business, often unfairly dismissed as “money men” when the best producers are the most passionate hands-on creators of them all. The […]

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A Livejournaller-slash-driving enthusiast tours a brand new Tesla Motors dealership.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Longtime readers will be aware that I am an unabashed fan of the television show So You Think You Can Dance, AKA “American Idol except for dancing instead of singing and also it doesn’t suck,” which has just commenced its fourth American season. It’s a better show than Idol in so many ways. The judges […]

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Apparently there is a movie version of Pac-Man in the works. All righty then. But I thought they already made that?

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Oddly, the thing that strikes me most about the passing of Robert Asprin is that if you’re looking for a better example to disprove the fallacy that substance abuse can create better writing, you couldn’t find a better example than him: it’s no secret that alcoholism turned his promising career to shit for a good […]

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…okay, that was the best story they could manage for the Indiana Jones movie people had been waiting two decades to see? (Sidenote: in the digital advertising thing they run before the trailers, one of the things was a segment on “Indiana Jones”, where Frank Marshall explained that the final shot of Last Crusade, with […]

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Hillary Clinton points out that Bobby Kennedy was assassinated when explaining why she’s still in the campaign. One, two, three… WHAT. THE. FUCK.

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…that Scary-Go-Round is fantastic? Because is it ever.

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A new post from me at TheCourt on Lake v. Canada (Minister of Justice), which is primarily an example of judicial deference to federal exercise of powers, but I threw in some stuff about American mandatory minimum sentencing for drug offenses to keep it interesting.

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Every Thursday, mightygodking.com returns to the pages of Who’s Who, the classic 1980s DC comic book encyclopedia of their characters. Every week, a character shall be judged on the only scale scientific enough that matters: the Rex The Wonder Dog scale of fantasticosity. Comics are weird in that every so often, a writer can knock […]

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Might be NSFW, although only barely.

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