Archive for category: The print medium

Another ‘Life’ to live through    (2010.07.09)

Is Toronto Life really an unkillable institution? Are we on the verge of finding out?

All the best parts of ‘Reality Hunger’    (2010.07.06)

The best parts of Reality Hunger are, paradoxically, the parts David Shields wrote himself

Advice from hypergraphic workaholics    (2010.06.18)

Hypergraphic workaholics, like Marco Arment, need to keep their advice to themselves

Who’s worse: Dundurn or John Lorinc?    (2010.06.09)

What’s worse: A publisher that fucks over authors or a journo who quotes an off-the-record source?

Pitches for ‘Fantastic Man’    (2010.06.09)

The magazine may have jumped the shark, but I thought highly enough of Fantastic Man to have submitted several solicited article pitches

Who else thinks we’re soft?    (2010.06.08)

Call-centre operators, according to Erik Granered

Smart designer exports dumb pictures of text    (2010.06.02)

The Wired app is a stag’s head hung over a mantelpiece, a pitiful reminder of a formerly living thing

‘Globish’ my ass    (2010.05.31)

Robert McCrum actually doesn’t talk about Canadian English in his new book Globish

Leyendecker’s lover    (2010.05.14)

American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker kept his lover Charles Beach a secret. What happened to Beach once Leyendecker died?