The top story this week: the Canadian loonie plummeted to drop well below parity with our American counterparts to the south. I realize many of you are thinking this should not be the top story. Let me assure you this is a real crisis. For you see...this was the year I was supposed to go on vacation. And now my purchase of foreign currency will cost me all the more.
I also realize that for some of you, the phrase "Canadian loonie" may be difficult to understand.
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There's just so many possible meanings.
In the wonderful world of geekdom, celebrations were held throughout the land with the release of the Game of Thones Season 4 trailer. Aside from the widespread excitement over the return of one of TV's most popular series, people are simply looking forward to entering a fantasy land where summers can last for years on end. Said one fan, "sure, there's frequent child murder, blood sacrifices, and undead horrors, but 3,600+ days of sunlight? You can't beat that!"
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Already looking into real estate prices.
If nerds are elated by the return of their favourite incestuous House of Lancaster fantasy proxies, they're almost certainly just as perplexed by Fox's upcoming "Gotham" series, which is said to be based around 12-year old Bruce Wayne's coming of age story. The future Batman will interact not only with a pre-commissioner Gordon, but also his future arch-nemeses prior to their various disfigurements / clown makeup / social issues / gangsta life.
Writing for io9, Rob Bricken says "I'm having a hard time articulating why I have such a problem with a show that imagines all of the Batman characters together as teens, when I really didn't have a problem with Smallville. But I do."
Writing for io9, Rob Bricken says "I'm having a hard time articulating why I have such a problem with a show that imagines all of the Batman characters together as teens, when I really didn't have a problem with Smallville. But I do."
Let me see if I can help you out there, Mr. Bricken. *ahem* The reason that you have a problem with a show that imagines all of the Batman characters together as teens is because...
IT'S FUCKING RIDICULOUS. Who in the freshest Hell looked at the Batman universe and said "You know what this is badly missing? Teen angst, and lots of it." Nobody took a serious, hard, period to reflect on the possibility that the Joker was just a class clown who excelled at chemistry until one horrible fateful day, and maybe he and Bruce Wayne even went to school together because wouldn't that just be charmingly ironic lol.
IT'S FUCKING RIDICULOUS. Who in the freshest Hell looked at the Batman universe and said "You know what this is badly missing? Teen angst, and lots of it." Nobody took a serious, hard, period to reflect on the possibility that the Joker was just a class clown who excelled at chemistry until one horrible fateful day, and maybe he and Bruce Wayne even went to school together because wouldn't that just be charmingly ironic lol.
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Really, the school should have known better than
to get its supplies from AXIS chemicals.
Never
has there been a more obvious answer to give save for this morning,
when Shelley Carroll provided the simple, straightforward response as to
why Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne continues to refuse meetings with Mayor Rob Ford.
Finally, just to be a hypocrite about ridiculousity, I continue to forgive the descent into stark-raving insanity and incoherence that is quickly becoming the mainstay of Sleepy Hollow. Perhaps because any story that begins with the completely unironic beheading of the actor who played the goddamn Kurgan can't be all that bad.
Finally, just to be a hypocrite about ridiculousity, I continue to forgive the descent into stark-raving insanity and incoherence that is quickly becoming the mainstay of Sleepy Hollow. Perhaps because any story that begins with the completely unironic beheading of the actor who played the goddamn Kurgan can't be all that bad.
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Ha! So cheeky.
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