Author archive

Who, one might ask, is the man?    (2012.02.04)

They’re laying it on a bit thick presenting Alexander Skarsgård as some kind of manly idol in Straw Dogs

Ideals of transportation    (2012.02.04)

In Hopscotch, Walter Matthau goes on the lam using a sequence of vehicles any of which would by itself represent a dream come true for the susceptible child of the 1970s

What happens when you let Canadian Tire run a government office    (2012.02.03)

The atrocious signage at my Service Ontario location is one thing. The fact that it is functionally impossible to get there if you’re blind is another – and it is one of only two locations in Toronto where blind people can apply for the only ID card they can use

Lying about gay money, with the best of intentions (‘New York Times’ edition)    (2012.01.09)

The Times’s Tanzina Vega is the latest to perpetuate a disgraceful tradition of taking what marketers say about the “lucrative” gay community at face value

Keph Senett: Women earn 64% what men do, and that urgently needs to be addressed in lesbian soccer!    (2012.01.08)

Keph Senett takes the women-earn-64%-what-men-do statistic and misapplies it to the “LGBT” community

DailyXtra.com    (2012.01.07)

Xtra threatens to launch a new daily-news site. What odds do you give they’ll do everything wrong?

Chris Spring bobsleigh accident: Liveblog of conference call with reporters    (2012.01.06)

Liveblog of conference call with press after Chris Spring crashed his bobsleigh in Germany

Tom Hardy’s Traps    (2012.01.04)

The Facebook justifies its existence

Berner Men Calendar 2012: Not exactly Gods of the Arena    (2012.01.02)

How exactly did Germans make shirtless German bobsledders seem tacky? How much of an achievement is it that I feel sorry for these guys?