Archive for category: Best
Posts I’m particularly proud of
- Novels: passé (2019.05.13)
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Someday you’re gonna die. Imagine having spent your life reading literature and novels
- iPhones are hard to use (2018.10.22)
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Very advanced, very tuned-in people learn about, and learn how to use, new Apple features by watching them being demonstrated onstage during Apple keynote events. Then there’s everybody else
- “Djibouti has always been Chinese” (2018.08.17)
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500 years from now, the Chinese will be able to say with a straight face that Djibouti was always Chinese. Four centuries before that, queer and trans* will have entirely rewritten (this means lied about) gay and lesbian history
- Colour sense: You’ve got it or you don’t (2018.04.21)
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Edgar Murillo is a deaf gay artiste from Spain with colour sense that goes beyond innate to primal
- Vision first, texture second (2017.08.18)
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Eric Kandel brilliantly explains how we see first, then perceive texture second. This explains why I like a lot of things I like, but nobody’s really taking me up on that knowledge, are they, now
- What is ‘Snowpiercer’ about? (2016.05.14)
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Snowpiercer is a totalizing visual obsession with returning one’s gaze to the symmetrical features of, the gleaming blue eyes of, every bristle of hair on Chris Evans, a timeless Hollywood masculine archetype
- My values are all I have (2015.11.11)
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I have been told I deserve “a full life that isn’t just about fighting for things.” I don’t have anything resembling that
- The dumb Millennial’s guide to ‘Xtra’ (2015.08.24)
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Toronto’s bien-pensant media intelligentsia want Xtra’s “pink” newspaper boxes back. What they don’t want is the task of investigating Xtra. Good thing I’m here
- Everything eldergays’ lives could not be (2015.05.17)
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Eldergays, unlike athletes, cannot live a life of the body