Sep 09
pic nicked from here Give me a shovel and a piece of earth and I’ll happily dig a rut until you bury me in it. Adventure is for bored people just as fucking is for horny ones. I find the careful maintenance of my routines to be adventure enough. Yet change does occur because change …
Jun 03
People call me names in spurts. Last week, I was dubbed a contrarian about three different times by three different people. It struck me as peculiar. I knew the term but only ever heard it applied to stock brokers – those who look at what everyone is doing and invest in the opposite. But it …
Aug 12
I just wanted to point out an example of how lies are built into any medium. There is always a process of editing and editing is a lie. Here is my photo of Amie Scott at The Phelp’s protest: And here is one that appeared on Flickr: So what’s true? They both are. But they …
Jan 21
Having a suit built specifically for me has been a dream for a long time. The experience has, to date, exceeded expectations and taught me things I did not expect to learn. I’ve decided to spend a few posts sorting through some of these reflections. I could be called shallow and I have been called …
Jan 20
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKYALsp-sIg&rel=1] It looks like the porn industry is switching over to blu-ray. This, of course, means that HD is dead. You can just forget all about it. If porn goes blu-ray, HD is beta. Porn has always been a driving force behind technology. It’s the reason VHS and the Internet succeeded. Combined with the army …
Jan 05
This year “Edge” asked some of the sharpest tools in the box what they’ve changed their mind about. It’s interesting reading. Although I recommend that you peruse the essays for yourself, here’s a few of my favorites. Sam Harris: Mother Nature is Not Our Friend. Rupert Sheldrake: The Skepticism of Believers. Paul Davies: I Used …
Dec 30
The only thing I hate more than celebrities is the concept of celebrity. As far as I can tell, the whole thing is designed to sell soda pop and running shoes. It revolts me. This may be an odd thing for a waiter with a fanclub to say. If I understood myself better, I would …
Dec 21
I know a lot of people who hate each other. Artists who hate bankers who hate musicians who hate fashion people who hate scientists who hate writers who hate hippies who hate scientists until all the Whos in Whoville are just a hateful mess who just want to defend their Whos from the other Whos …
Nov 28
It’s certainly too early to start with the new year’s resolutions — though not too early to start breaking them — but it’s about the right time to start thinking in retrospective. That is, if there is a good season for that, which there isn’t. And, if there was, winter would not even in the …
Nov 25
Pedants hate the term “very unique” and spend quite a bit of time protesting it. I can’t blame them. They are right. Words mean what they mean. Unique means one of a kind. Although my sympathies lie with the pedants, I’m now willing to bend on this term. It is perfectly acceptable to ascribe degrees …
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.
