Author archive

Calling Kinnear’s bluff    (2010.02.09)

The TTC union wants to hold town-hall meetings with riders. Fine – but meet with citizen journalists first. (I’ll arrange it)

Agent: Undeliverable    (2010.02.09)

What happens when one tries every trick in the book to actually sign an agent’s contract

Adam Giambrone’s micromanagement    (2010.02.07)

It turns out that Adam Giambrone and the Toronto Transit Commission do more than set “policy.” They buy individual sheets of paper and specify what your shoes will touch at Union station

Career coaching for TTC staff    (2010.02.06)

When you’re driving streetcar 4225, don’t lie to the passenger (or call the “police”) on him. And if you’re his supervisor, don’t lie, either

‘Eye’ visits Berlin, unnoticed    (2010.02.05)

Eye’s “Berlin special” is more like a series of blog posts, which, oddly, they also published

Mr. Quentin Crisp predicts the present    (2010.02.01)

In How to Have a Life<hyphen>Style, Mr. Crisp presaged phenomena that are now commonplace

Shorter Denis McGrath    (2010.02.01)

‘See, I’m a TV writer. I love the medium. It means I have a TV sensibility. And I will not apologize for that’

Mooned    (2010.01.31)

Because even lycanthropes can suddenly need a replacement jackhammer bit.

Bet against HTML and you lose    (2010.01.29)

Bet against HTML for online distribution and you’ve backed the wrong horse