“Newtown Answers” Charlotte Allen: This massacre might not have happened if some manly men were working at the school rather than weak, helpless women. Jim Daly: The massacre was horrible, but it’s Christmas! Anthony Daniels: The problem is that people think they deserve to be happy. Also, psychology is bullshit. Charles A. Donovan: It was […]

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And my Villain for Torontoist this year is the same as it is every year. There is a longstanding theory that people learn from experience, but Rob Ford seems dedicated to demonstrating that this theory does not have to be universal.

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Torontoist does its yearly Heroes and Villains at the end of every year, and my hero was the Toronto Marlies, for their equality pledge. (My Villain is still forthcoming. Regulars can, uh, probably guess.)

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Sex House was pretty brilliant, but The Onion’s new serial Youtube comedy is probably even darker than it was: (Total runtime of all the episodes is about an hour and change.)

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Click on thumb to see full As always, you can also go to the dedicated Al’Rashad site.

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Liked it well enough (caveat: saw it in non-3D, non-48-frames-per-second-vision), but I have no idea how they think they get three movies out of this when the movie ends, unsurprisingly, about halfway through the damn book, and that is with all the extra stuff from the Indexes to LOTR thrown in and more besides.

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Over at Torontoist, I participated in a roundtable discussion about the Toronto Raptors. And then, of course, the Raptors promptly won a game, presumably out of spite.

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Contemplation on the responsibility of power, check. Massive earth-shattering action, check. Superman’s faith in the common man, check. About the only thing I’m not sold on is Lois Lane as a non-brunette, but other than that, yeah, I’ll be lining up like fuck for this one.

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So occasionally I tweet something about a board game I have played recently and I got a few emails asking for more comprehensive run-downs, so why not. The Great Zimbabwe is Splotter Spellen‘s latest game – it was introduced in September at the Essen games fair, and shipped shortly thereafter. (As an addendum to the […]

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Click on thumb to see full Apologies for the lateness, but Technical Difficulties. You know how it is, right? Right. As always, you can also go to the dedicated Al’Rashad site.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Unfortunately, my internet at home is down because I made the mistake of thinking that maybe I should upgrade my internet to something that wouldn’t require me to pre-cache a lousy YouTube video and would actually make me consider subscribing to Netflix. The punchline here is I live in Canada and expecting the internet people […]

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Pleased to announce that mgkdotcom is now the sort-of-official tabulation site for the 2012 rec.sport.pro-wrestling Awards, the oldest and awesomest wrestling fan-awards tradition going on the internet. Nominations have started now and we are open for business there; voting begins January 1. DECEMBER 8 UPDATE: Due to overwhelming response, we are publishing the first iteration […]

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EDIT: of course I typo the image URL the day I’m in court for five hours. Fixed.

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