Your guest judges this week are Jesse Tyler Ferguson of Modern Family and Sonya Tayeh. Ferguson is verbose and actually occasionally helpful, and makes the long-overdue point that Cat Deeley really deserves an Emmy nomination for her work as host. Sonya is a neverending stream of celebratory nothing. Sasha and Alexander: paso doble and Broadway.. […]

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On Twitter, @magiclovehose asks: Something for the “give me something to write about” list: the legal ramifications of copyright and 3D printers? The thing about 3D printers is that they directly challenge one of the assumptions upon which copyright law is predicated. See, right now, in most countries you can’t copyright the design of a […]

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Your judges tonight are Jean-Marc, Tre, Blake, Luther and Mary. No surprises for the first episode – well, other than the fact that they went with five judges, and Mary’s judging two shows this week, and what happened to Moses, which is just downright tragic. (For SYTYCD USA viewers who don’t follow the Canadian show: […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Click on thumb to see full For those so inclined, this week’s sub-headers for Davinder and myself contain a Clue (!).

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Allegretto asks: How about a list of recommended TV shows? Relatively new (or otherwise)? I know you do televisualist, but that’s usually commenting on whatever is on in any given week and it also seems to strive for as broad a scope as possible, it’s not really the same as a “TV you should totally […]

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Your guest judges this week are Carmen Electra, who is useless and not even slightly adorable, and Travis Wall, who is so busy trying to be nice that he ends up coming across like a giant kiss-ass, to the point where contestants are actively making fun of his judging while he’s doing it, but at […]

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Some people, when stranded on a desert island, might use a pair of sticks rubbed together to create fire. Others might focus the sun through their spectacles. The resourceful might use flint and steel. Needless to say, all of these methods are completely superfluous if you are Rex the motherfucking Wonder Dog.

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Click on thumb to see full Given that TF2 is now free to play, this seemed necessary.

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Your guest judges this week are Lil C and Kristin Chenoweth, which makes me think they have the judge-choosing equivalent of a roulette wheel somewhere and it broke, but both of them are insightful and eloquent and make Nigel’s terrible jokes a little more bearable, and the prospect of seeing strong dancers eliminated in favour […]

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Recently I said that Marvel and DC have two different storytelling paradigms: DC’s is fantastic and Marvel’s pseudorealistic. Marvel heroes work best when the essential ludicrousness of their situation isn’t ignored, and the humdrum problems of everyday human life intrude: Spider-Man has to hustle to keep a job or a girlfriend, Iron Man has to […]

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