Author archive

Contempt    (2022.06.29)

Ben Sandofsky of Halide: Homophobe and blackmailer

TPN resources    (2022.02.17)

Resources for the Perfume Nationalist, including an episode list

Perfume Nationalist Excommunication Countdown    (2021.12.28)

So far, our friend Jack the Perfume Nationalist has excommunicated four of his guests, cohosts, or other collaborators. He’ll do the same to all of them

John Waters’ best films of 2021    (2021.12.02)

Annette is Nº 1

Flickr sucks (after 16 years)    (2021.10.26)

Your beloved wife turns into a bitch a decade and a half into your marriage. When she divorce-rapes you, of course she keeps the kids and cleans out your joint bank account – but she also accuses you of collecting porno (of your children, it is implied) and other illegal material in your storage locker, whose keys she took with her. Flickr is that bitch of a wife

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