Archive for category: The print medium

“There’s language, then there’s blood”    (2018.05.25)

David Shields, Other People: “I once felt joy in being alive and I felt this mainly when I was playing basketball and I rarely if ever feel that joy anymore and it’s my own damn fault and that’s life”

Positive deaf writers    (2018.01.02)

At Naked Heart 2016, the overriding message from deaf writers was positivity. You’d think I’d know that by now

Books of the year    (2017.12.29)

Billy Hayes’ Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me; Douglas Thomas’ Never Use Futura

Andrew “Like Puke” Sullivan    (2017.11.08)

Andrew “Milky Loads” Sullivan: “[T]his book [Love Undetected]… came up like puke”

Michael Malice booklist    (2017.10.08)

Easily my favourite rat bastard, Michael Malice, listed some of his favourite books, or at least the books one should read

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

»Das Ende von Eddy«    (2017.07.30)

A Victorian novel about a poor sissy who doesn’t even have the Internet in the 21st century does what, and exists why, though?

All the White people in Tim McCaskell’s book    (2016.12.21)

Tim McCaskell’s memoir proves white gay men and lesbians built gay Toronto