May

Thursday WHO’S WHO: Dr. U’bx

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Who's Who

…and then there was that time DC decided that the space cartoon chipmunk who was a Green Lantern needed a enemy who was sort of the space cartoon chipmunk version of Cobra Commander. And it was glorious.

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May

ALIGNMENT CHART! The Golden Age of TV Comedy

Posted by MGK Published in D&D Explains Everything, General Nerd Crap, TV

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May

Philipchbeeb, leader of men (and women)

Posted by MGK Published in Obligatory So You Think You Can Dance Category, TV

So over on America’s Best Dance Crew this season we’re getting a sort of Sanjaya Malakar situation developing: one of the crews is getting way more votes than their skill would reasonably deserve: Iconic Boyz, who aren’t terrible or anything, and in fact are really impressively good for a bunch of eleven-year-olds… but ultimately, they’re […]

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May

Nigel Lythgoe likes it when men dance in manly ways

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

4 comments

May

part two, page twenty-five

Posted by MGK Published in Al'Rashad, Comics

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May

“The Macho Man” Randy Savage, 1952-2011

Posted by MGK Published in Auf Wiedersehen Goodbye

There was never a better flying elbow drop in the world than Randy Savage in his prime.

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May

Menhir dreams

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Things Best Left Unsaid

He is an old man, sitting quietly in the corner of a room where many people speak in hushed and urgent tones about things of import that will affect everyone else. It’s easy enough for him to sit in on these meetings. Nobody really looks at him until he needs them to look at him: […]

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May

Shorter Ben Stein

Posted by MGK Published in WTF

“Dominique Strauss-Kahn couldn’t have raped that woman because 1.) He’s never been caught raping anybody before, 2.) Economists don’t rape a whole lot, as a rule, 3.) He couldn’t have raped anybody without a weapon handy, 4.) Lots of hotel maids are bad people, and 5.) He’s rich and this is all made up or […]

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May

Why I’m against income splitting

Posted by MGK Published in Politics

Income splitting was one of the policy proposals that the Conservatives ran on in the recent election. I think it’s a bad idea – a well-intentioned bad idea, but a bad idea nonetheless. But it’s also a policy that a lot of people I spoke with prior to the election had no idea was even […]

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May

Wherein we make fun of Donald Trump, but he deserves it for being the worst person ever

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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May

part two, page twenty-four

Posted by MGK Published in Al'Rashad, Comics

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May

THURSDAY WHO’S WHO: Brainiac Five

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Who's Who

Bloom County was originally about Milo Bloom, a wisecracking kid in glasses, and his family with whom he lived in a boardinghouse. Then one day, supporting character Binkley got himself a penguin as a pet, and we all know what happened next: Opus eventually became the flagship character of the strip and Berke Breathed’s entire […]

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May

Archie Python’s Improved Circus

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

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May

It’s not because of the lotto dream

Posted by MGK Published in Politics

Discussion of this Ebert essay is spreading around the internets because that is what the internets do, and the trope I’m hearing most regularly is the old canard of “well poor people are willing to support policy positions that benefit rich people because they think they might get rich some day.” This is crap and […]

16 comments

May