Hey, do you remember when you liked Deathstroke? I do. He showed up every once in a while, was incomparably badass, and then disappeared for a bit. And that was good. Why can’t we have that? After all, Deathstroke’s core concept is one that doesn’t really lend itself to extended storytelling (which is one of […]

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So apparently Alex Wong is wounded and may have a torn ACL, which would kick him out of the competition and remove ninety percent of the reason for watching this terrible stupid season in the first place. Get better, Alex! Lauren and All-Star Pasha: cha-cha. Lauren got a tonguebath from the judges, which – I’m […]

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Commenting seems to be temporarily borked and I am not sure why. Rest assured that Top Men are working on it, as always. EDIT TO ADD: For some reason my server started thinking it was in Africa. I am blaming the World Cup.

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Afghanistan. The entire song is essentially a long list of ethnic groups in Afghanistan (“and Tajiks, and Pashtos, and Uyghurs, and…”) which is why it’s the same two bars over and over and over again. There are a lot of ethnic groups in Afghanistan, and every one of them would get pissy and shoot people […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Readers may be aware that I am a big fan of Doctor Strange, and since people are aware of this I frequently am asked of what I thought of Mark Waid’s Strange mini (okay, but just serves to underscore stupidity of the Brother Voodoo thing) or Rick Remender’s Doctor Voodoo series (joyless slog that seemed […]

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Your judges are the usual gang of idiots. All evening they hype up the fact that Alex WHO IS A GUY is dancing with Twitch WHO IS ALSO A GUY HOLY CRAP Y’ALL, which is maddeningly annoying, but not as annoying as the audience, which has never, ever been this bad in the show’s history. […]

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Perfectly adequate summer entertainment with Jackie Chan sliding into the “elder sensei” role like a well-deserved glove, but the real shocker is that while it’s still only visible through a rudimentary level of acting talent right now, Jaden Smith has pretty much all of his father’s screen presence and natural charisma; he’s going to be […]

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My weekly TV column (most of which I wrote on Friday) is up at Torontoist. There might not be any updates from me for a bit, because I am incredibly sick right now; I was coughing and had a sore throat ever since Friday afternoon, and got gradually worse over the weekend (and being absolutely […]

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ROUND OF 16 Uruguay over South Korea Ghana over USA Netherlands over Slovakia Brazil over Chile Mexico over Argentina Germany over England Japan over Paraguay Spain over Portugal ROUND OF 8 Ghana over Uruguay Netherlands over Brazil Germany over Mexico Spain over Japan ROUND OF 4 Netherlands over Ghana Spain over Germany FINAL Netherlands over […]

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For those just wanting to read my G20 stuff for Torontoist rather than go through the site looking for it, here you go.

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…as I am Torontoist’s official accredited journalist (well, one of two, but I do the writing bits) covering the G20 summit here in Toronto (motto: “When We Have An Economic Summit, We Have Earthquakes And Tornadoes Just To Make The Fucking Point”). Needless to say, this is totally awesome and I hope I get the […]

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