Archive for October 2010

TTC to passenger: Drop dead    (2010.10.26)

Do you want a safe transit system or not? Safe for whom, exactly?

Hacks & Hackers Toronto    (2010.10.22)

Last night (2010.10.21) was the first mixer for Hacks & Hackers Toronto. Now let’s get to work

‘175 Key Toronto Films’    (2010.10.22)

Toronto on Film lists “175 Key Toronto Films.” Since TIFF won’t publish the list, I will

One more time: E-books do not contain ‘formatting’    (2010.10.18)

Craig Morgan Teicher is the latest æsthete to run screaming from E-book copy that is “swamped in code”

Gay engineers    (2010.10.18)

In the wake of a report on gay and lesbian engineering students, time for some anecdotes and reflections

Personages of ‘The Butch Factor’    (2010.10.13)

Who are the subjects of the feature documentary The Butch Factor, about gay men and masculinity? (How many of them have gay accents?)

Bret Easton Ellis, pink marshmallow    (2010.10.10)

‘And since there had been a serial killer in of all fucking places Toronto, for Christ’s sake, who had read the book and based to of his murders on scenes from it, I made a number of frantic, drunken phone calls’

Half-fulfilled promises of ‘Half Empty’    (2010.10.08)

Is David Rakoff’s Half Empty an attempt at autobiography? Then why is it a failed attempt?

Bill Brioux jumps the shark    (2010.10.07)

Esteemed television commentator Bill Brioux calls the only interesting Canadian series, Being Erica, a muddled ratings failure