SCENE: A crummy-looking producer’s office. The walls are covered with posters detailing past glories – such as they are, we’re talking mostly budget SF/horror flicks and one Hallmark made-for-TV movie that won some technical awards. A SMALLWIG is sitting behind the desk, which is covered in mounds of paper. His LACKEY brings him coffee. SMALLWIG: […]

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So now that I’ve officially started law school, I’m expected to start thinking about what sort of legal philosophy I’m going to support. This is really remarkably easy. This one. When in doubt, I believe the only legal tidbits you desperately need to know in order to serve effectively as a dedicated lawyer are all […]

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This week, we feature refreshing kiwi juice. Kiwifruit (never just “kiwi”, as that is either a flightless bird or a New Zealander or both) are extremely rich in vitamin C, as well as having a great deal of vitamin A and E, a decent amount of potassium (nearly as much as a banana, by weight), […]

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This is what happens when somebody tells me that something unproven is a certainty and I disagree. In this case the email in question said “the reason there are so few DC movies is because nobody wants to see anything but batman and maybe superman. wonder woman never gets made because she sucks. green lantern […]

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This week sees the debut of my new TV column at Torontoist, so go read it and recommend it, willya? Not that it changes my pay grade any either way, but.

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Every year, at Ontario Place, there’s a Chinese Lantern Festival. This year, I brought along my crappy 2.1 megapixel camera with the slippy focus and the zoom function that doesn’t quite work, and out of the 700 or so pictures I took, these are the ones I deem worthy of public viewing.

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Brainiac Five normally does not have the patience to dabble in events of mere fisticuffsmanship, but, to show willing, he is participating. He also kindly requests that people stop bothering him about this now. Bahlactus makes you dizzy like the twister made Dorothy, if you think you can beat him you in the minority.

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Today, it seems, is Blog Day, wherein if you have a blog you are supposed to recommend five blogs that you think people should read. Of course, this is kind of the point of a blogroll in the first place, and I heartily endorse every blog on that right-side toolbar as being an entertaining and/or […]

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This week: “A Common Disaster” by the Cowboy Junkies. However, since the original video is here and Universal Music Group in their wisdom have decided that the video should not be embeddable (because allowing fans to generate free publicity for you is such a bad thing you know), I instead offer up a live performance […]

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On the right: Cal Thomas! Perhaps there will not always be an England. An exodus unprecedented in modern times, coupled with a record influx of foreigners, is threatening to erode the character of the land of William Shakespeare and overpowering monarchs, a land that served as the cradle for much of American thought, law and […]

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 (Blame Churchie.)

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From Comics Should Be Good!’s 365 Reasons To Love Comics, recently in the comments as Bill Reed discusses various comic strips: I try to be extremely tolerant when it comes to differences of opinion, but “Peanuts” is one of the very few works where I would actually distrust anyone who doesn’t like it. It’s perhaps […]

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Those who are interested in such things and who do not regularly examine the sidebar (fascinating though it may be) – you may wish to be informed that, thanks to the assistance of an exceptionally helpful reader, the old Ultimate Power #2 parody is back.

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Somebody once told me, “if you want to make a good action movie, get an American to direct. If you want a good comedy, you get an Englishman. And if you want a good war movie, you get a German.” On that note: Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters) is quite possibly the best World War II […]

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