Archive for June 2011

Dodging the matched-penguin-suit bullet    (2011.06.22)

By using cravats, pocket squares, corsages

Library copy of ‘Gay Times’ with half the nude bodies rubber-stamped    (2011.06.21)

An issue of Gay Times I borrowed from the library has rubber-stamp markings plunked onto many pages showing bare-chested or nearly-nude guys

Wannabe Brit laments Canadian English    (2011.06.21)

Here we have what is easily the dumbest thing written about English linguistics in ’011

Slavoj Žižek ends an interview    (2011.06.21)

“This is all? My God! Good. Goodbye!”

Peter Saville’s unprecedented freedom    (2011.06.17)

“At Factory, I had a freedom that was unprecedented in communications design. We lived out an ideal, without business calling the shots. It was a phenomenon”

Confidential to Mike Lee of le.mu.rs    (2011.06.17)

Fix your TITLE, please, Mike

Fishbowl    (2011.06.16)

The quintessential bus.

But also an embarrassing anachronism. Soon, all but two ceremonial Fishbowls will – justly – be decommissioned.

Lorraine Sommerfeld: Blind teen can fix cars but can’t read article about him    (2011.06.16)

Newsflash, Lorraine Sommerfeld: A teen who can fix cars does not need sighted help to read a newspaper

Memphisean    (2011.06.16)

The mottled, aqua-triangled Memphis-manqué ’80s æsthetic