I’ve been meaning to do a lengthy post about train boardgames for some time, but never quite get around to it. Partially it’s because novice boardgamers equate train games to Ticket To Ride. Now, don’t get me wrong: Ticket to Ride is a fine game. But it is barely a train game. Ticket to Ride […]

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Nov

BOOK POST: Snuff and Ready Player One

Posted by MGK Published in Books

I know some were concerned that Unseen Academicals was Terry Pratchett straying away from the tried-and-true elements that make the Discworld books click (I was not one of them, mind you, but more than a few expressed misgivings). Well, Snuff is very much a return to form, as one would expect from a Vimes novel, […]

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29

Nov

It’s the scholasticism of the seventies

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Here's A Lot Of Photoshops, Photoshopp'd

(Source.) (Unrelated.)

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28

Nov

We are not yet willing to admit that it looks like Christmas

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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28

Nov

part three, page twenty-four

Posted by MGK Published in Al'Rashad, Comics

Click on thumb to see full

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26

Nov

Single-sentence review of The Muppets

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

Almost entirely everything I hoped it would be – which includes the fact that the kidlets in the theatre I was in were just as entertained as I was.

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23

Nov

I can’t believe I got up at 3 AM for this

Posted by MGK Published in Canadian Politics, Politics, The Internets

The Toronto Police shut down the Occupy Toronto encampment in St. James Park this morning, and from 3 AM through to about 8 I was onsite liveblogging it for Torontoist. I have to say, I feel vaguely robbed by the lack of a riot. Dear police and protestors: next time I have to get up […]

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23

Nov

Archie Andrews and the Poptate of Fire

Posted by MGK Published in Archie (Improved Or Otherwise), Comics, Interactive Fun Time Party

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22

Nov

Anne McCaffrey, 1926-2011

Posted by MGK Published in Auf Wiedersehen Goodbye, Books

“‘And a time to every purpose under heaven,’” Robinton murmured, his throat almost too tight for him to speak. He felt incredibly tired, overwhelmingly sleepy. “Yes, very true. How splendidly true. And what a wonderful time it has been!” She was more than a bit homophobic and her books were uneven at best, but I […]

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22

Nov

Explaining Hollywood, Part Ten

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Explaining Hollywood, Flicks

SCENE: A STUDIO BIGWIG and his three JUNIOR EXECUTIVES sit at a table. BIGWIG: We have had an excellent run this year, gentlemen. One, I was certain we had drained the Adam Sandler well dry, but your bottomless pit of imagination showed us that there is still much more for Adam Sandler to do. FIRST […]

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Nov