Author archive

Wardriving, swede, keming    (2011.09.01)

Neologisms coined even though the activities they define never happen(ed)

Zeke, rich widowed homosexualist    (2011.08.31)

Zeke, a rich widowed homosexualist featured in the Globe, pends like a drunken, widowed, homosexualist sailor

Zagat guide to Armond White    (2011.08.31)

Film critic Armond White’s Wikipedia entry reads more like a Zagat entry

So: How’s your workout at your gay gym going today?    (2011.08.31)

Unidentified solder, Infidel

Reporting on Tim Cook    (2011.08.25)

Now that generous, well-liked Felix Salmon has made essentially the same point about reporting on Apple CEO Tim Cook as I did, perhaps technology journalists will grab another chance to grow up

Why nerds hate emoji    (2011.08.25)

Because emoji, like the Tamara Hope Palm Pre commercials, remind male nerds that the computer doesn’t know you’re a girl, or not one

Russell Smith’s visual impairment    (2011.08.25)

Russell Smith’s retinal detachment led him to complain that possible tasks are impossible. Let’s help him out!

Andrew Haigh begins counter-counternarrative    (2011.08.24)

The horrific dystopian apartment towers in Weekend are sites of quiet beauty, Andrew Haigh says – curiously enough, after I said the opposite

Chris Nutile    (2011.08.23)

The late Chris Nutile might have been that rare thing, a masculine gay role model for his nephew