Archive for category: Asides

BlockTogether    (2014.10.11)

Block Together combines and aggregates the task of blocking abusers on Twitter

“The British government is obsessed with a Victorian model of society that is mechanistic”    (2014.10.09)

Neville Brody: “Because creativity isn’t quantifiable, it loses out”

“Once he got the sensation of the tail, he was totally present”    (2014.10.02)

Acting coach Susan Batson and Tom Cruise

“Now, we’re haole as shit”    (2014.09.19)

G. Clooney: “Now, we’re haole as shit…. [I]t’s a miracle that for some bullshit reason 150 years ago we own this much of paradise. But we do. And for whatever bullshit reason, I’m the trustee now, and I’m not signing. I’m not signing it”

“Youngman”    (2014.09.19)

John Rechy: “YMCA” begins with “youngman” from City of Night

‘Super-Cannes’ locations    (2014.09.05)

Rick Poynor: Locations in Super-Cannes

“the orientation formerly known as heterosexual”    (2014.08.27)

GenderTrender, exhibiting too many copy errors but with equally too many juicy bons mots to go without recognition

Holly Hunter manquée Kara Swisher    (2014.08.27)

Kara Swisher: “I essentially called him a pig, with my name attached,” Swisher says. “You have to stand up and not be embarrassed or victimized.” When she subsequently saw McLaughlin at a party, she says, he told her, “ ‘Most people in this town stab you in the back, but you stabbed me in the front, and I appreciate that.’ I said ‘Anytime, you son of a bitch’ ”

Correcting Alexis Madrigal    (2014.08.27)

“E-mail is still the best thing on the Internet” if you’re using Eudora and you aren’t top-posting. In other words, it isn’t