Author archive

Limerent object    (2010.09.30)

Chris the Fireman

Angie    (2010.09.30)

Have you seen my calling card? Perhaps, if you are especial, the red one?

Joe Jervis, menace to society    (2010.09.23)

Joe Jervis writes a blog that attracts comments calling for violence

Battle of the business card    (2010.09.23)

Patrick Bateman, American Psycho: “Look at that subtle off-white colouring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God – it even has a watermark”

Another failure of public typography    (2010.09.07)

Women’s College Hospital in Toronto proposes to plaster Arial caps (with neutral apostrophe) all over their windows

Purple grille    (2010.09.06)

‘Do you realize there’s no extant photograph of him?’    (2010.09.03)

“ ‘Why is that?’ I asked. ‘Why is it like this?’ ‘It’s because we’re queer, my dear’ ”

‘Scott Pilgrim’ vs. the MoPix    (2010.09.02)

We went to see Scott Pilgrim with MoPix. Only one of us liked it!

Publishers as Flashturbators    (2010.08.31)

The Web is old enough that history can repeat itself. What’s happening now with E-books parallels what happened with Web sites in the early Aughties