Author archive

Reverse Lion    (2011.06.09)

OS X 10.7 will work in Arabic. This may not go well

Ringtone, flashtone, vibetone    (2011.06.09)

Under iOS 5, not only can you set a ringtone for each of your contacts, you can set a flashtone (not quite) and a vibetone

Confidential to Lee Jordan of Captions, Inc.    (2011.06.07)

Somebody get Lee Jordan to drop me a line

Atomized old men    (2011.06.04)

Old gay males stumble into the light at the homosexualist film festival and wonder: Where did all these guys come from?

I was never ‘laissez-faire’    (2011.06.03)

‘I’m glad the friends I have now are involved enough in my life to try their damnedest, even risking what passed for “friendship” at that time, to try to prevent me from sliding into the decay I experienced in the ’90s as a result of “friends” who were so laissez-faire as to watch someone they claimed to care about slide into oblivion’

Andrew Haigh’s lack of generosity    (2011.05.26)

Andrew Haigh can afford to be generous. Instead he went for cruel and snide

Recognizable addition to the Cinema of Recognition    (2011.05.25)

Gay cinema is a Cinema of Recognition, of which Weekend is the latest example (now updated, then updated again with the shiv Andrew Haigh stuck in)

Leo Obstbaum    (2011.05.24)

Did designer Leo Obstbaum “die suddenly,” i.e., kill himself? (Answer: No. And he wasn’t gay)

Journalism faculty unable to publish commencement address as HTML    (2011.05.23)

Columbia J-school couldn’t figure out how to publish Nate Silver’s commencement remarks as HTML. So I did it