This is the Call for Nominations for the 2015 Theszie Awards. To nominate candidates for all categories, you may use this form. Nominations are due by December 30, 2015. To see a list of current nominees, click here. Finally, to see previous years’ results, click here for 2014, here for 2013, here and here for […]

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While the GF and I were in Europe recently (on my first vacation in a long, long time – short version, Paris is great, Brussels is great, Amsterdam is great, western Germany is great, Luxembourg is pretty to look at but otherwise it blows), I had the opportunity to spend a day at Essen Spiel, […]

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Steve Jobs opened wide this past weekend, after two weeks of a very small introductory opening run to build up buzz, and grossing just over $7 million over the weekend probably puts it in the “minor flop” category. It didn’t cost a lot to make, comparatively speaking ($30 million) so it will probably end up […]

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Was recently surfing the interwebs and saw people arguing about CM Punk’s claim in a 2013 promo that he wrestled more often and harder than the legendary Bruno Sammartino, so he was a greater champion than Sammartino. Obviously, this was a promo, and as such Punk clearly wasn’t making a serious argument about his superiority. […]

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There’s been a lot of handwringing in the Canadian press over the last forty-eight hours after the photo of Aylan Kurdi dead on the beach went viral. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about and don’t want to see a picture of a dead toddler but also want to know what happened, click here.) […]

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So I’ve been getting a few emails lately, mostly along the lines of “where are you, is everything okay, did John Seavey murder you and is he now wearing your skin as a sort of mask,” that sort of thing. The thing of it is simple: I am fine, and Seavey couldn’t filet a fish […]

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Senator Ted Cruz announced over the weekend that he would run for President, and the liberal internet has by and large taken the opportunity to laugh at Cruz, because Ted Cruz’s positions are utterly crazy and should (in theory) make winning a presidential election extremely difficult. But I have a problem with this, and the […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Welcome to the results of the 2014 Theszies / Rec.sport.pro-wrestling Awards. This year we officially hit 1,000 voters – and I mean exactly 1,000 voters, after we manually eliminated the usual bunch of duplicate/scam voters (seriously, guys, why do you do that, it just makes this all take longer). We came out to exactly one […]

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Torontoist asked me to write a eulogy for the now-departed Sun News Network.

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So last night Triple H appeared on Stone Cold Steve Austin’s wrestling podcast (LIVE ON THE WWE NETWORK ONLY NINE NINETY NINE MAGGLE) and spoke for about an hour, non-kayfabe, about the challenges of booking pro wrestling in an era where everybody who wants to know anything about wrestling can essentially know at least half […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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So last night the annual WWE Royal Rumble happened and it ended up being an absolute disaster because of the Royal Rumble match – the annual modified battle royale that is one of the most popular events the WWE runs every year, and certainly one of the most anticipated. The short short version is that […]

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