Archive for category: Best

Posts I’m particularly proud of

Novels: passé    (2019.05.13)

Someday you’re gonna die. Imagine having spent your life reading literature and novels

iPhones are hard to use    (2018.10.22)

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)

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

My values are all I have    (2015.11.11)

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)

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