So you may have noticed the immense amount of downtime on the site over the last day and change. Basically, what has happened is this: Google Reader Play got launched, and quite a few images from the Kim Jong-LOL post got added to it, and then a bunch more got added to it, and the […]

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I’ve been enjoying Parenthood thus far, but wasn’t sure how true the portrayal of the kid with Asperger’s Syndrome was, so I asked a friend of mine who has kids with Asperger’s to watch it so I could get her opinion. This is it.

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A few people emailed me after the last time I had an open call for post requests asking me to “rip into” George R.R. Martin for taking such a long-ass time finishing the A Song of Ice and Fire books, which… no. I mean, just no. Even if we could get around the amazing hypocrisy […]

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(and yes, I really did learn the tuba)

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Some people like to point to that bit in Crisis On Infinite Earths where the Penguin is briefly depicted fighting Firestorm to a standstill as the “waitasec” moment of that series, but it’s not mine. After all, the Penguin is a pretty smart dude and he has umbrellas that shoot people. Plus, Firestorm is traditionally […]

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Your guest host is Kelley Abbey. She is pretty. Top seven boys: Broadway. I was kind of meh on the whole idea of a top seven boys’ performance because there didn’t seem to be any reasonable way to choreo a routine that would showcase all of them equally, so I figured they’d end up just […]

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(inspired by this) — The old man lies back in bed. The nurses call him by a name he barely remembers any more, except when his friends use it. The name is meaningless anyway: calling it a fiction would be too kind. It’s a shoddy lie, and nobody believes it now, and as he nears […]

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You know, it’s nice to know that Marc Thiessen is exactly the whiny, disingenuous little toad in desperate need of a cockpunching that I imagined him to be.

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I’m not going to turn this blog into trailer central or anything, but apparently you could see this in 3D if you went to see Alice In Wonderland in 3D but instead I saw it in a theatre with really crappy sound so I didn’t get to see this and holeeeeeeeeeeeeeee shit. This is more […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Jaime found this and passed it along: It’s the blissful expression on Betty’s face, combined with the sheer terror on Archie’s, that really sells the last panel. Her parents are away on a weekend vacation. Jughead is in Shelbyville at a chess tournament. Veronica is distracted, thanks to tipping off Reggie that Archie would be […]

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Rather than liveblog the Oscars and just make people click “refresh,” I’m doing it on the Twitter. Feel sorta dirty.

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