Oct

part one, page twenty-one

Posted by MGK Published in Al'Rashad, Comics

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Oct

Single-sentence review of Red

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

Space Cowboys minus the outer space plus a whole lot of guns (including the extra half hour the movie really doesn’t need).

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Oct

Jesters could control Wands of Wonder!

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Conversations, D&D Explains Everything, Gaming

FLAPJACKS: We totally need to set up a D&D game. ME: There is never a time when that sentence is true. FLAPJACKS: But I wanna be a paramander! ME: That sounds dirty. FLAPJACKS: No, seriously! They’re a variant class from first edition AD&D. ME: …this is out of an old copy of Dragon magazine, isn’t […]

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Oct

The dopiest thing you will read today

Posted by MGK Published in Politics, WTF

…is this article suggesting that the natural home of hippies is the Tea Party. No, really. Among the article’s highlights: – taking an anti-war poster with “Great Society” on it, the point of which was that Johnson’s rhetoric about the Great Society were belied by his actions in Vietnam, and arguing that posters like this […]

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Oct

Grover on my mind

Posted by MGK Published in It's The Youtube, TV

Like most people, when I saw the Youtube video of Grover parodying the Old Spice Man, I thought it was wonderful: cute and hilarious and a bit educational all at once. But it made me think about how, back in my second year of university, a girl in one of my classes insisted that Sesame […]

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Oct

TV critics do not get Thanksgiving off!

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Oct

part one, page twenty

Posted by MGK Published in Al'Rashad, Comics

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Oct

Happy Fortytwoday!

Posted by MGK Published in It's The Youtube

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Oct

Let’s play Counterfactuals!

Posted by MGK Published in Interactive Fun Time Party, TV

1.) If Cortes had never caused the fall of the Aztec Empire, who would be the best-selling recording artist in history? 2.) If small dogs (up to the size of fox terriers) were currency, what derivative instrument would have caused the 2008 financial collapse? 3.) If guns had never been invented and sling-thrown grenades taken […]

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Oct

Rejected designs for the new Gap logo

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Photoshopp'd

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Oct

SYTYCD Canada Bloggin’

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

Your guest judges this week are Karen Kain OH MY YES and Dan Karaty, and any week where Karen Kain was not guest-judging Dan Karaty would be the highlight because he’s awesome, but, hey, Karen Kain. Amanda and Edgar: hip-hop. A very strong opener. Edgar was of course predictably good because he’s just very good […]

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Oct

COMIC TALKING POST

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

ITEM! Digital comics are the next big thing! That having been said, Dani Jones echoes my sentiments here: it is beyond stupid that DC and Marvel have their own apps for comic viewing on the internet. I’ve said before that comics seem determined to make every single mistake the music industry did enroute to finding […]

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Oct