Author archive

Contempt    (2022.06.29)

Ben Sandofsky of Halide: Homophobe and blackmailer

John Waters’ best films of 2021–2022    (2021.12.02)

Now two years combined

Fiction fact-check    (2021.10.25)

Just how many contemporary novels even deign to admit that email, TV, and bathrooms exist?

Best and worst fagonomics articles (2021)    (2021.09.07)

An amazingly original piece of work devised a theory of which jobs gay men and lesbians would choose. Running through a set of statistical surveys, what jobs did the authors identify as typical of gay men and lesbians? You’ll never guess!

Apple already is a repressive régime    (2021.09.06)

It was particularly risible to read that Apple’s surveillance mechanisms might be reused by some kind of authoritarian or repressive régime. Apple already is one of those. Its authoritarianism merely pleases the political biases of the far-left Apple press

Simpletons and slow children now have their own E‑mail software    (2021.07.21)

The great Jason Fried of Basecamp, author of so many bestsellers on usability and the futility of meetings at the office, charges you a hundred bucks for the worst E‑mail software in three decades. Hey.com is the IBM PCjr of electronic mail

Shawn T. Smith is a hostile, untrustworthy men’s therapist    (2021.07.19)

Shawn “The T Is for Toxic” Smith is indeed toxic, hurtful, and destructive, and he is a danger to any man seeking his help

Sub-literate debate about decline in literature    (2021.07.01)

Lydia Perović (no relation) interviews Russell Smith, and gets everything wrong that could be gotten wrong, from facts to copy to mondegreens to ‘apostrophes and ‘quotation marks’

This just in: Publishing still moribund    (2021.06.20)

Helen Andrews’ Boomers shows the futility of the publishing oligopoly, which takes most of your money and still lets you get obvious facts wrong. But the alternate option – self-publishing without expert help – is also doomed to failure