Archive for category: Best

Posts I’m particularly proud of

“Djibouti has always been Chinese”    (2018.08.17)

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)

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)

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)

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

The dumb Millennial’s guide to ‘Xtra’    (2015.08.24)

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)

Eldergays, unlike athletes, cannot live a life of the body

How to load the dishwasher    (2015.01.04)

I did the obvious thing. I downloaded one or more instruction manuals from essentially every dishwasher manufacturer in existence, extracted just the pages or parts thereof that illustrate how to load the dishwasher, and assembled them on Flickr

Look on and be happy    (2014.08.12)

I see an eternal truth wordlessly expressed in Toast and The Long Day Closes