Tip of the hat to Jim Smith, without whom I totally would have missed this: Over the past month a new Axis of Evil has emerged — not one based in Damascus, Tehran or Pyongyang — but instead in Cedar Rapids, Charleston, South Carolina, Derry, New Hampshire and Boca Raton, Florida. No, seriously. He’s not […]

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I was watching the Democratic debate just now, and Hillary Clinton suggested that having a woman President would “change the world.” Pretty obviously in response to the fact that the Obama campaign excites people because, hey, potential black president, that’s a big deal. Look, I hate to have to be the one to say it, […]

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Well, if Obama loses the Democratic nomination, it’s certainly not going to be for lack of funding. $32 million on January, with 170,000 new donors? That’s insane.

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FACT. The Count lives in a large, Gothic-ish castle on a lonely hillside. FACT. There are no large, Gothic-ish castles upon lonely hillsides in New York City. FACT. The Count does not have a job in the city. THUS. The Count has no actual reason to enter into New York City bar his own wishes. […]

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1.) Is it just me, or does the cowboy star look uncannily like George W. Bush? 2.) Who, come to think, is also a fake cowboy. 3.) In the Golden Days of Hollywood, “pen” was a codeword for “heroin.” 4.) In 1948, $2.25 was “America’s best value” for a pen? I can get a perfectly […]

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I don’t generally think highly of most mechanima movies (Red Vs. Blue is about the only good one), but this one is really clever (in a melancholy way, no less) and well done. Anytime you can tell what the character is thinking with such a limited range of animation, you know you’re dealing with storytellers […]

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Every so often, I get emails from people saying “they heard” [x], asking for my opinion. Which is flattering, but honestly – I have practically no contacts within the comics industry. (I have a few in film and TV, but no, I don’t know what’s going to happen with Smallville this season. Honestly, I’m happy […]

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Beautiful Girls is something of a rarity, because it is a guy movie. By this, I do not mean it is an action movie, which for some reason has become the accepted definition of “guy movie,” despite the fact that women can enjoy a good action movie just as well as men can. (Men, to […]

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Guess who gets arrested after a collision: the rich white drunk driver or the poor black sober one.

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Erick “Not An Actual Viking” Erickson is on a tear lately. Now that he’s told us all how black people aren’t actual voters and that white Democrats are all racists for not voting for Barack Obama (except those that did, but they don’t count), he’s attacking NOW New York for their attack on Ted Kennedy […]

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Well, examining my daily hitcount and reader totals as I am wont to do, I note that yesterday’s linkback from PvP better than tripled my usual readership. In this spirit, I would like to announce the following upcoming posts: “Are Gabe And Tycho Seditious Communist Agents? The Evidence” “Joss Whedon: Serial Plagarist” “Feist Is A […]

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Me, on Test The Nation: Look, they said to brandish it enthusiastically. I was only following orders.(Picture courtesy Lau.)

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ACCEPTABLE WAYS TO REFER TO THE WRITER OF THIS HERE BLOG “Christopher Bird” “Chris Bird” “Bird” (everybody does this, really, I’m cool with it) “Mighty God-King” “Mighty God King” “Mightygodking” “MGK” “Love Muffin” “Pretentious Loudmouthed Asshole” UNACCEPTABLE WAYS “Mighty Godking” (Look, I know this is partially my fault because of the first top banner I […]

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Once again, my weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. (I would also recommend Torontoist’s new advice column, which is the only advice column I have ever seen that answers the question “where do I go to get some weed?”)

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