Author archive

‘We’re not talking about models’ feelings here’    (2011.06.30)

Alexander McQueen: “We’re not talking about models’ feelings here. We’re talking about mine”

What bobsledders look like in the off-season    (2011.06.29)

More accurately, what the sole ginger Aussie bobsledder extant looks like

The problem of small caps    (2011.06.27)

Interview with Tim Ahrens

Eulogy for Maggie Patton    (2011.06.27)

My friend’s eulogy for his departed mother, preserved here

Ed Bernero: Male-oriented TV shows    (2011.06.27)

TV showrunner Ed Bernero: “Something with real sort of male themes and male strength… the things that appeal to us, the things we compete for. Macho in a different sense – the kind of things that we think makes us a man. It doesn’t really exist”

‘Trying to find answers to original design challenges’    (2011.06.27)

Gerard Unger: “If type designers would concentrate more on originality – not only personal originality, but trying to find answers to original design challenges — then I think we could use more designers”

Citations for ‘vizmin’    (2011.06.26)

Fewer than 60 citations for vizmin all told

Mild radio satire    (2011.06.26)

1994–1999: The Great Eastern; 2010–: This Is That

The House of Homosexual Culture    (2011.06.25)

A cultural institution unthinkable here