Archive for category: The print medium

Mock the Poncy Anglophile Week (3)    (2009.07.01)

Mocking Alain de Botton: “ ‘Fuck off. We don’t give tours,’ he responded decisively”

Mock the Poncy Anglophile Week (2)    (2009.06.30)

Mocking Alain de Botton: “[I]t seemed not to have a centre where citizens could gather for fellowship, javelin contests and philosophical debate”

Mock the Poncy Anglophile Week (1)    (2009.06.29)

Mocking Alain de Botton: “It should not be presumed from this image that the author is in any way lacking in empathy or bonhomie, or that he would be unable (as is sometimes suspected of intellectuals) to take his place, man to man, amongst a group of illiterate Indian Ocean sailors [continues for some time]”

‘Women of Design’    (2009.06.27)

Why aren’t there more wymmynz in graphic design? This new book answers a nonsensical question

BookCamp    (2009.06.07)

BookCampTO09: Why do I bother?

What can Cory Doctorow get away with?    (2009.04.02)

Apparently I would “need publication credits and degrees” to “get away with” writing about a topic

Dumbest literary agency in New York blows its cover    (2009.03.23)

“Attachment? What’s an attachment?” the Robbins Office essentially asks

Shortchangers    (2009.03.10)

How to ruin the typography of a novel in verse about L.A. lycanthropes

‘Save the Males’    (2009.02.24)

Not quite “Who wants crème brûlée?” but getting there. (Also: How to boss around a group of Cub Scouts.)