Mar 30
I wrote a short article with five links about bespoke for Aggregation Magazine 05. My article is here, the issue is here and the magazine is here. It looks fine on a desktop but the magazine is optimized for the iPad. So, if you have an iPad, this is the time to use it for …
Sep 28
But it was never really here in the first place. What a lot of rain and chill we had! Anyway, just a picture of me in the backyard on one of the few nice days. With me is a good friend (the dog) and a sworn enemy (the cat). I know many of you might …
Jul 12
I’m not the sort of man who talks about his feelings. It doesn’t mean that I don’t have them – it just means that I won’t discuss them. Feelings are unseemly. In my view of life, they’re like farts. Everyone is victimized by them. But you simply don’t discuss it over brunch. Having said that, …
Sep 01
The Toronto Exhibition ends today and that can only mean one thing: The summer is over. (It also means that I ate way too many corndogs, spent too much time on the midway, too much money at The International Pavilion, saw Jump Jet by Circus Orange twice and own more dead animals. But I’m not …
Aug 23
Shalome is returning to the good ole U S of A tomorrow. So my posts should be returning to a somewhat normal and a bit more robot-focused program. I have some things I would like to discuss. Leave it to Putin to start having fun while I’m distracted. And fall is almost upon us. But, …
Aug 20
A couple of weeks ago I commissioned a new portrait and leisure card by Danielle Meder. Although I was still happy with the one she had previously done, there’s always room for improvement. She had some new ideas and so did I. So we set to work. And here’s the result: What can I say? …
Aug 01
I finally shook off some of that midsummer malaise. A good dose of anger directed at my idiotic superiors always cheers me up. Gets the blood pumping and focuses the mind. I’ve seen the enemy. Again. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHcKxAPCKug&feature=related] Like any good day, this one started with a trip to my tailor. My new suit is almost …
Jul 24
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7nxRV9kZ8A&feature=related] I haven’t been posting very much lately. It’s not because I’m busy. I’m just a bit burnt out. I blame you people. Here I am, providing you with wonderfully trenchant social commentary, interesting stories about robots and other techno-delights and what do you respond to? A hat! How many comments can one hat get? …
Jun 18
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_5jaibv2JA] Thuglit’s best of anthology HARDCORE HARDBOILED is out. Why do you care? You care because my story “Jack Jaw and the Arab’s Ape” is in it. You can buy the book at Amazon or at Barnes and Noble. And you should. My two contributor’s copies arrived yesterday and it’s a nice looking volume. So, …
Jun 07
Through the magic of internets, I have learned that The Grumpy Owl is banned in China. Although I suspect this has something to do with Chairman Mao’s notorious indifference to neckties and great love of moles, no one has sent me a memo to explain it. I can only assume that the Chinese government is …
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
