Author archive

Unctuous    (2006.02.24)

Why don’t deaf people care about captioning quality?    (2006.02.24)

Four reasons

Home Depot wasteland    (2006.02.23)

I’m not gonna dignify this one by calling it a Homo Depot, as is often done here.

Fieroté    (2006.02.23)

Yes, this is a flat-tired Pontiac Fiero with a pickup-truck cap piled onto its roof.

Arch    (2006.02.23)

My photo of these concrete arches being driven down Bay St. makes me think of May Day parades in which everything under the sun gets driven down the boulevard.

Johnny, are you Weir?    (2006.02.21)

Memo to dumpy sportswriter guys: There’s nothing wrong with being gay and there’s nothing wrong with asking if a public figure is

Icebiking in action    (2006.02.19)

Yes, of course I attended the icebike race last night. I coined the word. Why wouldn’t I go?

My first time, curiously enough. It was actually held in a semiconvenient location and, more importantly, inside. The disadvantage? No wolves or coyotes.

Bronze cars look better in the rain    (2006.02.19)

I seem never to have published this photo, despite having it in my completed files:

Hence my hope for a triumphant sequel is somewhat truncated. En tout cas:

π    (2006.02.16)

Is π the k of the Greek alphabet – the letter that people simply cannot draw correctly?

UPDATE – No, apparently χρόνια πολλά is two words and is a greeting similar to “many happy returns.” I suppose Gerry Leonidas would have eventually put me in my place to rights had I not double-checked after Sven-S. Porst suggested it.