Previously, Tintin showed up in America and then there were racist depictions of Native Americans. With those wacky Injuns out of the way, Tintin turns his head back to a powerful conundrum. As we have previously mentioned: Tintin? Is lucky. So Tintin gives chase to Bobby Smiles! And how does he gives chase? Why, only […]

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The world’s largest music collection is for sale. Over three million 45s and LPs, plus three hundred thousand CDs, a hundred grand’s worth of musical memorabilia, proprietary ownership of eight independent record labels and a patented vinyl LP cleaning system. Only three million dollars opening bid! (Keep in mind that if you apply for an […]

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Good romantic comedies are genuinely rare. (This comes from someone who has tried to write a couple, and they both flat-out sucked.) The reason good romantic comedies are rare is because they’re modern-day fairytales, with all that the metaphor implies. Think for a second on the number of terrible revisionist/”original” fairytales you’ve read. (There are […]

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For a mere ten thousand dollars, I will take a polygraph test which will completely prove that John McCain had his gay mansexual way with me and an illegal immigrant in a torrid homo-pervert three-way. Then, he spat on the Bible and affirmed his dual loyalties to the Democratic Party and Osama Bin Laden. Ten […]

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I consider energy issues to be awfully important, so here are some links that you can all read and then you can share with the rest of us your interesting thoughts on this global-emergency-level problem. Firstly: this blog comment: ten reasons why nuclear power is a bad idea. Meltdowns and waste removal are barely even […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist, as usual.

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Condom wrappers from the 1940s.

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“Low-oxygen” areas of ocean off the Pacific Northwest coast are “the new norm.” Caused by global warming, you see – but pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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A scientific examination of stuff white people like.

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When last we left Tintin, he was being ushered into a gangster den that he thought was very possibly a police station, because Tintin is a fucking idiot. Anyway, the gangster, Bobby Smiles (the “number two gangster in America”), offers Tintin a lot of money to kill Al Capone. Tintin says “heavens no, I came […]

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As this site has recently gotten StumbledUpon and Dugg a bit in the last week or so, I felt it apropos to put up a sort of semi-site-index page in my Klassics bar, available here. Regular readers: this probably affects you very little, unless you want to go back through the archives and see if […]

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So people sometimes get on me for being too critical. “You critic,” they say, “you don’t like anything and you hate all things and your soul is a black void, incapable of feeling joy.” And this is just not true! For example, I love funnel cake. Funnel cake is delicious, especially with whipped cream and […]

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