Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
by Jamal Igle Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a juggernaut. Critically acclaimed and the current holder of the title of “biggest film opening of all time.” It’s an engaging film that engrosses the viewer and harkens back to the early days of franchise. As it is with all things pop culture, particularly in the…
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A mock-up of the view $100 million could buy you (Extell). We mentioned this in passing yesterday (because we immediately passed out from the numbers involved), but it’s worth diving into the nitty-gritty: a mystery buyer has shelled out over $100 million to buy a duplex in One57, one of the luxury skyscrapers on…
Midtown Manhattan will soon be teeming with luxury skyscrapers, thanks to all the development underway on 57th Street’s so-called Billionaires’ Row. But it appears that the rich people shopping for homes in these monsters might not know about all the other needle buildings that’ll be their neighbors, since developers have been conveniently erasing fellow skyscrapers…
You can’t keep a good woman imbued with the power of the entire animal kingdom down. Previously relegated to an animated series companion to the CW’s DC TV-verse, Vixen will be joining the live-action big league when Megalyn Echikunwoke brings the hero to life as a guest star on Arrow. Echikunwoke is the actress who…
This holiday season, one lucky D.C. thief nabbed him or herself a Secret Service starter pack, complete with a gun, badge, radio, handcuffs and flash drive. It’s a Christmas miracle, in that our president is still alive. According to CNN the items were stolen “in broad daylight” out of the agent’s personal vehicle, if you…
In Kentucky, county employees will no longer be required to suffer the indignity of their names signifying love and equality. This is the legacy of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis. Davis, infamously, railed against the Supreme Court’s order legalizing gay marriage this summer by refusing to issue marriage licenses altogether, categorizing her arguably bigoted views…
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde has created a device that he believes is costing the music industry $10 million a day, reports TorrentFreak. The ‘Kopimashin’, seen in the video below makes 100 copies of the Gnarls Barkley song ‘Crazy’ and sends them all to /dev/null – a technical term meaning the files are deleted as…
When an Internet charmer by the name of Trevor sent a young woman an unsolicited dick pic, she responded with the situational equivalent of, “Would you speak to your mother with that mouth?” That is to say: She sent their correspondence to his mom. Then she posted screen captures of their conversation on her blog,…
Haters on Twitter were not happy with the decision of Hermione “turned black.” …of the Harry Potter books, why has Hermione, a described white character, been cast as black? It makes no sense. — Dylan (@RandyGiles_) December 21, 2015 @Hypable this is not a question of racism or whatever, the character of Hermione was white,…