Author archive

“That’s 1‑555‑FAT‑BEAT”    (2015.09.03)

Don’t forget your anticoagulants

Don’t expect to be taken seriously by the ‘Toronto Star’    (2015.09.02)

When I tried to keep the Toronto Star from blowing it with its “tablet app,” Michael Cooke (open Michael Cooke’s policard), Faadi Yaccoub (open Faadi Yaccoub’s policard), Jon Filson (open Jon Filson’s policard), and Dave Darnell (open David Darnell’s policard) all treated me like a problem

The second-last man to take me seriously    (2015.08.28)

That would be Mr. SCOTT BOMS, who left Toronto for Facebook. He got out just in time

“They don’t want an apology. What they want is my destruction”    (2015.08.28)

Two observations by Mike Daisey about being the object of gleeful public pillorying

Useless (knowledge)    (2015.08.27)

Useless knowledge en route to Best of Enemies

The dumb Millennial’s guide to ‘Xtra’    (2015.08.24)

Toronto’s bien-pensant media intelligentsia want Xtra’s “pink” newspaper boxes back. What they don’t want is the task of investigating Xtra. Good thing I’m here

‘Gawker: An Oral History’    (2015.08.16)

Brian Abrams has written a classic of the oral-history genre

Who’s lying about Stonewall now? Torontoist and Kyle Kirkup    (2015.08.01)

Ms Kyle Kirkup lied about Stonewall at Torontoist, whose co-editor-in-chief and de facto publisher backed him to the hilt

Tagame poetics    (2015.07.29)

When viewed in translation, many of Gengoroh Tagame’s story titles are unexpectedly poetic