Note: lyrics that are about more than just a general description of the ostensible topic, general aura of professionalism, musical skill.

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Easily my favorite Jamiroquai song, and really the only time I can think of where they strived to be epic.

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In the post two thousand MGK will thank all his readers for reading, or for looking at the pretty pictures if they cannot read, but the latter category will not be able to read the thanks and therefore feel resentful, except that they will not because they didn’t even know they were being thanked! In […]

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DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS: Endorses an act of murder; not condonable AFGHAN WHIGS: Potential terrorists XTC: Promotes drug use VIOLENT FEMMES: Encourages ladies to engage in unladylike behaviour GORILLAZ: May actually be gorillas BAD RELIGION: Religion should not be considered “bad” unless it is Islam maybe, or one of the weird Asian ones where they ring chimes […]

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“Yes, I’ve been on hold for ten minutes now already. Yellowjacket… Y, E, two Ls, O… look, do you really need me to spell it?… Yes, it’s all one word… Yes, I can hold another minute, but… dammit, they put me on hold again… Morty? Yeah, Yellowjacket here… good to hear you too, Morty… no, […]

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So a while back someone asked me to share thoughts on board games I’ve played recently, and I am nothing if not willing to chat about board games every once in a while. – Battles of Westeros is the Game of Thrones-themed variant on Richard Borg’s “not quite miniatures, not quite a boardgame” set of […]

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Your guest judges are Rex Harrington and Stacey Tookey, who looks like Olivia Newton John circa 1982 tonight. Jean-Marc helpfully explains that the judges eliminate the bottommost dancers in terms of votes, except when they don’t. CLEARED UP. Except that they eliminated Julia and Jera over Kirsten and Jesse, so never mind, it still doesn’t […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Rosie DiManno thought today was a great day to write an anti-mosque column. That made it a great day for me to mock her.

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So in lieu of actual original content, here is Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’ waltz from Swing Time, one of the finest dances on film ever: I have always held that this is an excellent test to see if a person has a soul or not. If you do not like this, strongly consider the […]

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Including liveblogging municipal debates for Torontoist.

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Previously, we discussed how time travel works, or doesn’t work. Most time travel in comics follows the “create an alternate parallel universe in which you are then trapped” motif. There are reasons for this. If you are creating a time travel machine, you don’t want it killing you, and traveling to the past is the […]

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Your guest judges tonight are Blake and Melissa Williams, who is dubbed “the queen of new disco.” (As opposed to “the queen of taking themed jazz choreography and coming up with a new name for it,” I guess.) Amanda and Denys: “the dreaded quickstep.” Because apparently nobody is allowed to just call it “quickstep” any […]

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