Author archive

Time’s up, TTC    (2009.07.01)

We’ve been waiting and waiting for TTC to fix its signage problem. Time is up

Mock the Poncy Anglophile Week (3)    (2009.07.01)

Mocking Alain de Botton: “ ‘Fuck off. We don’t give tours,’ he responded decisively”

Mock the Poncy Anglophile Week (2)    (2009.06.30)

Mocking Alain de Botton: “[I]t seemed not to have a centre where citizens could gather for fellowship, javelin contests and philosophical debate”

Mock the Poncy Anglophile Week (1)    (2009.06.29)

Mocking Alain de Botton: “It should not be presumed from this image that the author is in any way lacking in empathy or bonhomie, or that he would be unable (as is sometimes suspected of intellectuals) to take his place, man to man, amongst a group of illiterate Indian Ocean sailors [continues for some time]”

I wrote a script about Michael Jackson    (2009.06.29)

I wrote the audio-description script for Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story. And here it is!

‘Women of Design’    (2009.06.27)

Why aren’t there more wymmynz in graphic design? This new book answers a nonsensical question

Spay or neuter FixOutlook    (2009.06.24)

If Microsoft Outlook, a favoured tool for top-posting assholes and phishing criminals, is to be “fixed,” that is only in the sense of spay or neuter

How your California roll is like the seal hunt    (2009.06.24)

Uneducated fishermen club tuna to death

This movie is sincere, say the squiggles    (2009.06.19)

Squiggly illustration and type drawn with ballpoint pen both connote “sincerity”