Author archive

Pitches for ‘Fantastic Man’    (2010.06.09)

The magazine may have jumped the shark, but I thought highly enough of Fantastic Man to have submitted several solicited article pitches

Who else thinks we’re soft?    (2010.06.08)

Call-centre operators, according to Erik Granered

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Help gay Muslims ‘ease into’ civil society    (2010.06.08)

Ayaan Hirsi Ali told me gays should never support Islam, unless they want to be tossed off the edge of the tallest building. But they should support gay and lesbian Muslims

Buzz Lightyear Mounted Policeman    (2010.06.08)

Even mounted police take the Dufferin bus?

Smart designer exports dumb pictures of text    (2010.06.02)

The Wired app is a stag’s head hung over a mantelpiece, a pitiful reminder of a formerly living thing

147    (2010.06.02)

‘Globish’ my ass    (2010.05.31)

Robert McCrum actually doesn’t talk about Canadian English in his new book Globish

Canada’s only interesting fashion writer    (2010.05.31)

Sarah Nicole Prickett: “The normality myth is the new beauty myth”

A first for the TTC    (2010.05.31)

For the first time ever, the TTC took the advice of somebody outside the company (for the Museum station subway diversion of May 2010)