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Sub-literate debate about decline in literature    (2021.07.01)

Lydia Perović (no relation) interviews Russell Smith, and gets everything wrong that could be gotten wrong, from facts to copy to mondegreens to ‘apostrophes and ‘quotation marks’

I regret everything nice I ever said about Dogpoet    (2020.04.12)

Dogpoet’s deathwish: Now directed at somebody else

Talking with the taxman about typography    (2020.01.25)

“Typography doesn’t exist, it isn’t important, and I’m really good at it anyway”

The ‘Times’ lies about us once more    (2019.05.11)

“Same-sex couples earn significantly more money than their straight counterparts,” writes John “Not Hob” Koblin in the Times.

No, they do not

Ask Mark Rippetoe (about eating disorders)    (2017.08.11)

Vegan weight training? Mark Rippetoe: “I can’t deal with your eating disorder. It’s not my job to deal with your eating disorder. And it’s an eating disorder. That’s all it is”

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

Movies lying about reality    (2015.10.20)

Ask John August: When reality does not fit Syd Field’s three-act structure, reality doesn’t get made into a movie

Who’s lying about Stonewall now? Torontoist and Kyle Kirkup    (2015.08.01)

Ms Kyle Kirkup lied about Stonewall at Torontoist, whose co-editor-in-chief and de facto publisher backed him to the hilt

Countering transgender lies about Stonewall    (2014.10.13)

Transgenders, least of all Ray “Sylvia” Rivera, did not lead Stonewall