Author archive

‘The Coach House way of doing things’    (2013.01.21)

What is “the Coach House way of doing things”? (I expect artisanal publishing to produce beautiful objects you will love to read)

Toronto designers: The most important design book of the decade is now easy to get your hands on    (2013.01.17)

You can now borrow Chasing the Perfect from the library, thanks to me

Gayest voice in British podcasting attempts to pronounce ‘Dundas’    (2013.01.16)

Extremely supergay Moncole podcast host takes supergay stab at pronouncing “Dundas,” fails

Bowie/Barnbrook    (2013.01.09)

Compare and contrast: David Bowie, “The Next Day”; R.E.M., Out of Time

$50K for Brûlé    (2013.01.08)

How much does it cost to wheel in Tyler Brûlé to lecture you on the deficiencies of a broken-down capital city like Ottawa?

Virtualized backup singers    (2013.01.04)

The Pet Shop Boys have virtualized the backup singer

A disarming masculine ‘type’    (2013.01.01)

Handsome, open, generous, beautifully proportioned, with tattoos that, like totem poles, tell a family story

MetaStupid    (2013.01.01)

A year-long hiatus from MetaFilter, where I am user 250 (1999), due to the entrenched stupidity of its intelligent and sophisticated owner and developer

2012 year in reading    (2012.12.30)

My year in reading, 2012