After discussing the Adbusters case previously mentioned here in class, my constitutional law professor sent me an email elaborating on the subject, and since I thought it was interesting (and since said professor is one of the top constitutional law scholars in Canada), I thought I’d pass along the relevant parts. The relationship between s.2(b) […]

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The Barack Obama race speech video on Youtube has over two million hits in less than two days. This, for a video that is, let us not forget, nearly forty minutes long. By way of comparison, remember that “music video” thing? It got to a million hits in five days, and it’s about three minutes […]

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I’ve decided that this is now a regular feature here at mgk.com (well, until I get bored with it, but who knows how long that will take). Every week, we will return to the pages of Who’s Who, the classic 1980s DC comic book encyclopedia of their characters. Every week, they shall be judged on […]

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SCENE: A STUDIO BIGWIG and his three JUNIOR EXECUTIVES sit at a table. STUDIO BIGWIG: Gentlemen, I just wanted to give you your due. The Hottie and the Nottie will just barely break even without making a profit. Number one, your slate of Dane Cook romantic comedies for the next two years is awe-inspiring. Number […]

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Okay, so yesterday’s post on Bob Rae led me to thinking along the following lines. 1.) I have a predominantly American readership – even if this wasn’t obvious from all the “whozat” questions every time I delve into Canadian politics, Google Analytics confirms it pretty conclusively anyway. 2.) I like to post about Canuck politics […]

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Well worth a click: a photo series of rival Kenyan tribes fighting for land… with bows and arrows.

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(WARNING: Canadian politics alert. American readers may wish to instead look at this cute puppy. You have been warned.) So Bob Rae has finally won himself a seat in Toronto Centre, in the by-elections that were for all practical intents and purposes a referendum on Stephane Dion’s leadership. (A referendum which offered an inconclusive, dithering […]

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Why DC doesn’t reprint this comic, I will honestly never know. It is a dog who is bullfighting. And as issues of Rex The Wonder Dog go, this is comparatively tame. YOU HEAR THAT, DC? GIVE US REX THE FREAKING WONDER DOG! (More Rex The Wonder Dog here.)

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John Cole is right: this AP commentary just screams out “why are you such an uppity Negro, Mr. Obama?” The dictionary defines the word as an “offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride.” Obama may not be offensive or overbearing, but he can be a bit too cocky for his own good. As opposed […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Okay, now if it was me, and someone came to me and said “look, we need to have you make a commercial for our pasta sauce,” I would probably shoot a commercial that is at least slightly conceptually related to the pasta sauce in question. You know: the pasta sauce tastes good, the pasta sauce […]

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Delivered to my inbox by virtuous elves, acting in secret: Gemstone have signed “new, hot talent,” to take over on Donald Duck and Friends with issue #375, and I am pleased to have the chance to present to you two pages from the issue. My source refused to name the new writer, but I have […]

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Mark Kleiman explains how numerically unlikely, at this point, Hillary Clinton’s chances of obtaining the Democratic nomination are. Sneak preview: they are very, very, very low indeed.

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Well, not per se, anyhow.

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Melodyne’s Direct Note Access system changes absolutely everything about music production. No, really, it changes everything. The greatest upside is that transformative use just became completely unstoppable. Of course, this will leads to bold new worlds in copyright litigation as artists go to court to claim that a minor-chord variation of, say, “Hot In Herrre” […]

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