Mar

Uh HUH.

Posted by MGK Published in Archie (Improved Or Otherwise), Comics

Just… pretend to look surprised, I guess.

9 comments

Mar

The Big Guns Come Out

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

14 comments

Mar

News OF THE FUTURE!

Posted by MGK Published in Politics

Geraldine Ferraro accuses Barack Obama of being a token. TOMORROW’S NEWS Dennis Kucinich Accuses Barack Obama Of Shortness Bob Dole: “Barack Obama Is Too Old To Be President” Is Barack Too Dull To Be President? John Kerry Says So Dick Cheney: “Can We Trust Barack Obama?” Barack Obama’s Name Sounds Dirty, Says Tom Vilsack EDIT […]

6 comments

Mar

Ah, hell with it.

Posted by MGK Published in Archie (Improved Or Otherwise), Bad Comedy, Comics, Photoshopp'd

Because everybody loved it so much… Dialogue courtesy Optimooseprime.

11 comments

Mar

Adbusted

Posted by MGK Published in Law, TV

The legal decision for Adbusters v. CBC just became available to read, and it’s… interesting. The case, in brief, is thus: Adbusters, which for those not aware is a public advocacy organization with an anti-consumerist bent, tried to buy advertising time on Global Television and the CBC for their “buy nothing” ads. CBC aired one […]

6 comments

Mar

Genocide! It’s What’s For Breakfast!

Posted by MGK Published in Politics, WTF

Pamela “Craziest Bitch On The Internet” Atlas approvingly quotes some nutbar here: The reality is that the Palestinians in the disputed territories are different from us, because the majority of them are evil. By that, I mean that the problem isn’t just their leaders and the terrorist thugs, the problem is the average person on […]

21 comments

Mar

There is “lame,” and then there are Firestorm villains.

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Comics, Who's Who

This is Firestorm. For those of you who do not know such things, Firestorm is a superhero with the power to transmute nonliving matter from one type of matter to another. So, for example, he can turn oxygen into iron, or lead into gold, or helium into plutonium, and so forth. Note that his power […]

50 comments

Mar

From Metafilter

Posted by MGK Published in Nothing Else Fit

…which has found the “Vertigo plagarism” post: I think the Civil War remix is sort of his “Rick James” moment- by that I mean it was the bit he did that was so awesome it makes everything else he does or ever will do not as good by comparison. Well, ow…

37 comments

Mar

Me Elsewhere Which Is Not Here But There

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

1 comment

Mar

Some Will Say He’s Just Got Issues

Posted by MGK Published in Brainiac Five Is Awesome, Comics, I Should Write The Legion

I’ve been getting a few emails recently asking me to do a few more character-based I Should Write The Legion bits, which seems fair because I’ve been concentrating a lot on plot ideas lately. But the thing is – most character issues end up being plot ideas anyway, or at least subplot ideas. Character issues […]

26 comments

Mar

“10,000 BC” – A Dialogue In Many Segments

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Conversations, Flicks

(SCENE: The local multiplex. Enter MYSELF and my ROOMMATE, who has requested anonymity for the purposes of this post, and so shall be known as FLAPJACKS. We sit in anticipation of watching 10,000 BC, which we are certain is going to be very, very bad.) ME: Okay, here we go. FLAPJACKS: I am stoked. ME: […]

13 comments

Mar

Everything You Need To Know About The Quality of Mobile Phone Service In Canada, In One Short Post

Posted by MGK Published in WTF

ME: Hi. My phone got smashed up and I need a new phone but I don’t want to spend a lot of money. CUSTOMER SERVICE PERSON (of company that shall go unnamed but which rhymes with “Bodgers”): Certainly. What’s your account status? ME: I’ve been month-to-month with you for a few years now. BODGERS: I […]

19 comments

Mar

Happy International Women’s Day

Posted by MGK Published in It's The Youtube

5 comments

Mar

A wonkish sort of post.

Posted by MGK Published in Economics

I was arguing about this at law school today with some fellow students, and I am genuinely unsure of the answer, so I am throwing it to the masses. Hello, masses! So we were arguing about taxation to begin with, which in turn led to the various costs of living in the United States and […]

10 comments

Mar