Mat's Rants

The Oscars did blah I don’t really care.
Actually, I did notice one thing in the Oscars, which was that Wallace & Gromit did not win the award for Best Animated Short, which is almost unheard of. That award instead went to something called Logorama. I watched it, and was very unimpressed. Oh look, Ronald McDonald [...]

So I said last week that Canada had two goals for the 2010 Winter Olympics that seemed unattainable. The first was to get more medals than any other country, and the second was to win the gold medal for men’s hockey. Well, now the games are over, and let’s take stock.
Did Canada win more medals [...]

Even now, George Lucas continues to prowl for IPs that can be brutalized.
Though Canada has officially stated now that they don’t expect to “own the podium,” winning hockey gold has actually become more of a possibility since the last time I talked to you. The decision to kick out Martin Brodeur and put in Roberto [...]

The “George” in question here is… well, I’m sure you can figure it out by looking carefully at his ideas on how to expand the lore of a popular sci-fi franchise. Star Trek has had near-fatal wounds inflicted to it repeatedly since The Next Generation went off the air, but the newest movie managed to [...]

This might prove useful.
I just realized that this is the second comic in a row where the punchline involves Dirk thinking about vaginas. I apologize for that. While I have been drawing comics in advance, this one came to me just yesterday, so I whipped it together when I got home from work without thinking [...]

Just a few hours from now, the Olympic torch will be coming through my town on its way to Vancouver proper for tomorrow’s opening ceremonies at BC Place Stadium, and I intend to walk down and catch a glimpse of it. This makes me probably the only person I know who gives even this most [...]

Okay, let’s do this. Here are the nominees for the 2009 Matsy Award for Album of the Year. It was really hard to narrow it down this year, because there were a number of albums that were almost great. But I came to these decisions, which I think will serve most people well for their [...]

In case you’re wondering, here.
There have been times where Kat has walked into the living room and found me watching cartoons with the sound off. She questioned it until I explained that I didn’t want to hear the screaming. And there is a lot of screaming in cartoons. So here we go.
The cartoon Lucas is [...]

One of the many (many) things I regret about the initial run of BDK is how I handled Lucy’s brother. Of course the character wasn’t mine, so I was somewhat limited in how I could use him, but the use I did get out of him is something I’d prefer to forget. It’s one of [...]

This one explains a lot about itself, so it doesn’t really require a lot of explanation. The first thing that made me angry about it when I heard it was that the guy kept insisting on using the term “pre-owned” where any normal person, not reading from a BMW script, would say “used.” But like [...]