Author archive

‘The Gentrification of the Mind’    (2012.09.10)

When not inveighing against racist, elite white gay men, Sarah Schulman provides novel and useful analysis of “gentrification,” literature, gay men, AIDS, and more in The Gentrification of the Mind

Scott Thompson on ‘Hannibal’    (2012.09.07)

Scott Thompson now has a dramatic role on ‘Hannibal’

Beginning of the end    (2012.09.06)

“This photo represents the beginning of the end of anything resembling competence in Web development in Toronto”

“Jackie”    (2012.09.03)

Name two male singers who could and plausibly would cover “Jackie” (updated)

11:19:53:10    (2012.08.28)

Timecode through window

Baskerville, like lead in the bloodstream, makes smart people stupid    (2012.08.26)

Errol Morris gets basically everything wrong in his “test” that “proved” Baskerville was the most credible typeface. But don’t worry: My corrections here will not change anything

‘Weekend’ update    (2012.08.23)

Update on Messrs. CULLEN and NEW of Weekend

Lessons from the suicide of Kyle Scanlon    (2012.08.22)

Kyle Scanlon’s suicide cannot be disentangled from his transgenderism and endogenous depression, I claim (with 2017 update)

Khoi Vinh: We were too stupid to charge for Mixel, and, unlike Instagram, nobody bought us out    (2012.08.08)

Khoi Vinh is shitcanning Mixel. Why didn’t he simply charge for it all along?