: Does Toronto Need a Restaurant Critic? What is the state of Toronto’s food scene? The question itself makes assumptions: that there is a …
: Punch Magazine leans into the Martini hype (or re-hype? or?) with a comprehensive roundup. …
: About the Martini I am lukewarm on martinis. Before you object: I know exactly the sort of “butbutbut!” …
: A really thoughtful piece by Moira Donegan reconsidering Andrea Dworkin. “It should not be hard to …
: On the Pleasures of Not Reading “A lot of the tragedy in the consumer preference algorithms deployed by Amazon and Netflix is in …
: Media as Metonym: On E3, Auto Shows, and White Supremacist YouTube In 2015, John Herrman wrote about celebrities doing an end-run around media, talking directly to the …
: Stick with this ‘til the end even if you find parts of it to be too much …
: Some random thoughts on White Lotus in no particular order: It is a fine thing for a show to be …
: I’ve reluctantly spent a lot of time in malls recently. I forgot about that unease you feel …
: Watched S1 of White Lotus. There was a message in there somewhere… but whatever it was, it was …
: To be Principled You Have to Avoid Pleasure I had been trying my best to avoid the World Cup, but ended up watching the final and being as …
: I am these days a bit obsessed with things. Stuff. Objects. I am typing this little note on a new …
: When will there be a backlash to “immersion”? You cannot talk about VR and AR these days without someone talking about immersion, or presence. The …
: Listened to more of CBC Ideas’s series “The Shock of the New” and it’s …
: infiniteconversation.com An AI-generated conversation between Slavoj Zizek and Warner Herzog???
: Interesting (to me) tidbit - reading Car and Driver’s letters to the editor, and there, too, …
: What Was Twitter? Pt. 1: A Real-Time Information Network Twitter wasn’t a social network, not primarily. It was a real-time information network. Its …
: Publicness as a vector Something the kerfuffle on Twitter has made clear recently is that certain sites, locations, …
: It’s amazing how much I missed the “third space” of the coffee shop during the …
: Trying out mico.blog because I think this is actually what I want - a place to think out loud.