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There’s nothing you can do to stop it now.

From the Tuesday, August 11, 2009 edition of The Hollywood Reporter: Universal Studios has ticket to ride on “My Little Pony” “GI Joe” director Sommers to direct 2011 tentpole based on childhood toy...

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Deep thoughts on the Great Health Care Debate of ’09

Personally, I have only shallow thoughts on the American health care debate. Any attempt on my part to articulate a response to the notion that Paris Hilton could possibly deserve better health care...

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I ALSO CAN MAKE LISTS

There was a time when a kid could walk into pretty much any North American drugstore or supermarket and find themselves exposed to a wide range of Top 21 Lists. The reasons for the current absence of...

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A half-hearted defence of a whole-hearted massacre

“In the early years of the 21st Century, America and the world reeled in horror in response to a vicious, unwarranted attack to some of the country’s most cherished institutions. I refer of course to...

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Insert the Terminator clip of your choosing here.

I am a natural-born luddite. My mother fondly remembers me tossing my booties at her sewing machine as an infant.1 My irrational hatred and fear of technology is profound, but not without just cause....

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I’m not entirely sure where the line is, but I bet I can cross it.

Keenly aware as I am of the latest trends in the fascinating and frustrating world of political discourse in the United States, it’s dawned on me over the last week or two that I’m surrounded on all...

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By Any Other Name, Part One

(Scene: A DC Comics marketing department meeting room. Present are The Boss and Interchangeable Marketing and PR Executives #1-31 Larry, Gary, and J.D., three Marketing Executives who are wholly...

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“And then Bambi teams up with The Punisher to avenge his slain mother!”

Disney’s buying Marvel.

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No fruit too low-hanging.

I almost fell out of my chair yesterday when I read that, while addressing a “free  market think tank,” US Representative and Joker impersonator Michele Bachmann said something I agreed with....

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By Any Other Name, Part Two

What do Citizen Kane, The Matrix, and Meet the Spartans have in common? What do War & Peace, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and The Destroyer Volume 11: Kill or CURE have in common? What...

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Random thoughts on DC restructuring

-In terms of tangible changes to actual comics produced, I suspect this is actually bigger news than Disney’s acquisition of Marvel, at least in the short term. I wonder how many DC editors are...

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Did you know…

…that fishermen have discovered a parasite that eats its host fish’s tongue and then lives in its mouth, living off the food the fish consumes? Gross, huh? I offer this interesting piece of trivia as...

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Welcome to “Prescription Medication-Induced Reflections with Andrew Foley”

Is there any good reason why politicians who leave or are voted out of office shouldn’t be executed? I mean, OK, sure, technically they’re human and killing humans who don’t want to die is generally...

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Why I wouldn’t do polls even if I could be bothered to figure out how to make...

Not too long ago, I jokingly argued in favour of politicians being killed before they reach their natural expiration date. It might not have been a particularly good joke–that was certainly the opinion...

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Creator Cult Crusade

Finally, something I feel remotely qualified to talk about! Over at the Comic Book Bin, Hervé St-Louis has exposed a cancer that’s been eating away at the comic book industry: creators who think more...

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