Longtime readers will by this point know that one of the things that interests me most about the Legion of Super-Heroes, from a storytelling standpoint, is the thousand-year gap between the present day DC universe and the Legion setting – essentially using the Legion as a way to play proxy psychohistorian for the DCU in […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Regardless of whether or not you think Barack Obama should be President (and I do), you have to admit this is one hell of a speech, both in terms of style and content and the sheer balls required to make it.

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Way back in the day, there was American Seeds. And now… Click on image to enlarge

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Notes from attending Test The Nation as part of Team Bloggers: – Pleasant chat in the waiting area, where we were served an mediocre buffet meal (but, hey, free food) with the other members of Team Bloggers, most of whom were from outside Toronto and thus flown in and given hotel accomodation. Those of us […]

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(I promise this is my absolute last word on anything to do with “One More Day” until, I dunno, they make Spidey gay for Harry Osborn or something.) One of the basic premises of the Spider-Man reboot with “One More Day” is that the marriage of Peter and Mary Jane, as it stands, doesn’t “work” […]

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Cloverfield is, quite simply, just about fucking perfect in every respect that a giant monster movie could be.

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Why, exactly, are Star Trek series box sets on DVD so much more goddamned expensive than everything else? Barring the “complete series” box sets (which are only a reasonable price on Amazon anyway – these are box sets with a list price of over nine hundred fucking dollars for seven seasons, or about $110 per […]

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There’s a thing people keep saying about Hillary Clinton that I don’t get. (Let me preface this by saying the following: I think Hillary would be an acceptable-to-good President. I think the misogynistic attacks upon her are deplorable. And I have never understood Hillary-hatred – like, at all. It’s just weird.) Here’s the thing I […]

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Word Sandwich. Kept me up till goddamned 3 AM.

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Wikigroaning (whih-kee-grow-ning): A game where players attempt to find two vaguely related Wikipedia pages, the first being something real people might actually wish to research, and the second being an entry that absolutely nobody really needs to know. A Wikigroan is of extreme quality when the second entry is much longer and more detailed than […]

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