Archive for category: Best

Posts I’m particularly proud of

Novels: passé (2019年05月13日)

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

iPhones are hard to use (2018年10月22日)

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年08月17日)

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年04月21日)

Edgar Murillo is a deaf gay artiste from Spain with colour sense that goes beyond innate to primal

Vision first, texture second (2017年08月18日)

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年05月14日)

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年11月11日)

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年08月24日)

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

Everything eldergays’ lives could not be (2015年05月17日)

Eldergays, unlike athletes, cannot live a life of the body