As I’m in high job-hunting mode, I have spent a fair bit of time poring over job listings on Media Bistro, Craigslist and the like, and am noticing a disturbing trend. Yesterday, I read an ad for an editor job that listed “dog owner” as a prerequisite. Today I saw an ad for a technology […]
Chris sent me a link to this ghost town in Taiwan, photographed by Craig Ferguson in File Magazine. Apparently there were so many deaths during construction in the 1950s that the Taiwanese wouldn’t inhabit it–nor tear it down, as you can’t disturb ghosts!
There is a fine line between our futures: the dymaxion future of Buckminster […]
I have an article just out on the online women’s magazine Tango, on The Myth of the Male Orgasm. It’s about the little-discussed fact that men sometimes fake it, too. That, and how not all men are quite as orgasm-driven in their sexuality as we like to think. Many thanks to Carol Queen of the […]
I’m glad to have the opportunity to keep my hand in as a book reviewer for the LA Weekly from time to time. I recently had the pleasure of reviewing Sex For America, an erotica collection edited by Stephen Elliot. (I love the illustration by Jason Levesque that accompanies the review.)
One of my favorite stories […]
The day after designer Jeff Croft changed his site design, he woke up to 50 angry emails. His answer to his critics included this beautiful gem of an idea, responding to criticism of his sinful use of low-contrast text on a dark background:
I knew some folks would cry foul, saying it wasn’t readable or “accessible” […]
I made a visit last week to Dearborn, MI, where the Henry Ford Museum has Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House on permanent exhibit. First sketched in 1927, the idea when it was proposed for manufacture in the late 1940s was that the house could be manufactured using aircraft machinery by returning vets, and sold to those […]