I put together a little Amazon.ca wishlist, for those inclined to buy me things for Christmas.Which, really, is just about none of you. There are times I briefly wish I was a teenaged girl. (But then I remember that, honestly, being a white male kind of rules! HOORAY FOR ENTRENCHED SOCIAL PRIVILEGE!)

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Whenever I get lazy and think Stephen Harper is the worst leader imaginable – I am reminded that things could be far far worse. To sum up, one of the following possibilities must explain this situation: 1.) President Bush was given all the relevant information about Iran’s nuclear capabilities (or, more accurately, the lack thereof) […]

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I was originally planning to Photoshop this, but I just kept looking at it, and eventually I realized that sometimes, you have to let true mastery stand upon its own.

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Something I wanted to say during my bit on “Q,” but which I forgot to say because of stress and time constraints (and being amused by Denis McGrath, who is just as quickwitted as one would expect from his professional work and webpage), was this: Christmas specials basically divide into A Christmas Carol and It’s […]

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I’ve never before bought anything Alan Moore has written and thought, “wow, that was a waste of my money.” So I guess that’s a new experience!

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TEAM FORTRESS 2 CUSTOM MAP REVIEW: “Beach” Beach has its origins in two very popular areas of first-person shooter gaming: the original Omaha Beach map in Day of Defeat, and Team Fortress 2‘s progressive-attack maps like Gravel Pit where one team is on “attack and take control” and the other team is on “defend until […]

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Barring major mishap, I’ll be appearing on CBC Radio 1’s “Q” program tomorrow afternoon to talk about Christmas specials and why they are all bad.

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Enter TWO COMICS GEEKS. Each GEEK opens up a copy of All-Star Batman and Robin #1. They begin reading. GEEK ONE: This beginning is… GEEK TWO: Shit? GEEK ONE: Would Frank Miller and Jim Lee combined make shit? GEEK TWO: Surely this cannot be shit. GEEK ONE: Perhaps we should read some more, to make […]

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As usual, my weekly TV column is up at Torontoist, which you should read because I am clever and funny and, let us be honest, devastatingly handsome.

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Lately a lot of people have started to get worried that Mike Huckabee, suddenly the dark horse candidate for the Republican nominee for President of the United States, is going to win the nomination and then the Presidency because he actually manages to seem occasionally human and warm-blooded, and exudes “I would love to have […]

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EDIT TO ADD: Turns out it’s by Lore, which doesn’t surprise me at all.

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To all those complaining about the shitty “Mephisto makes Peter give up his marriage to save Aunt May with devil-magic” storyline currently going on in Amazing Spider-Man – look, this one is so easy to fix it’s almost redundant to mention it, and by “fix” I don’t mean just retconning it away, but instead making […]

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He’d just like you to buy into this brand called Barack Obama, which the presidency may enrich, but which may ultimately be more important to him than the presidency itself. The presidency may be the single most powerful position on the planet, but Barack Obama sees it just as a stepping-stone to Emperorship of all […]

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Excerpted from the current review of Battlestar Galactica: Razor on Television Without Pity: Now, Commander Lee Adama is flying the Pegasus. And it will change him, too. “The Bucket and the Beast,” they called them. Pegasus was a gift, too. Between the Bucket and the Beast, between Galactica and Pegasus, between Cain and Abel, or […]

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Courtesy of Justin Mohareb (mo’ hareb, mo’ problems, that’s what I always say), I found Sun Media’s wonderful expose on the world of ILLEGAL INTERNET DOWNLOADING. And who gets quoted more than anybody else in this series of articles? Why, Graham Henderson, of course, the head of the CRIA, which is like a Canadian version […]

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