Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
When he’s choosing your music for you, Carl Chery, 37, is in Culver City, California, sitting at his desk in an office with no signage, trying to decide whether Drake and Future’s “Jumpman” (jumpman, jumpman, jumpman) has jumped the shark. Or sometimes he’s at home in his one-bedroom apartment on the border of West Hollywood and…
We never know what will become of our ideas when we release them into the world. I learned this in a new way, when one of my tweets about Isis and Islam went viral on “Muslim Twitter”. The volume of response from Muslim men and women around the world (35,000 retweets and counting) isn’t what’s…
In the great saga that is the media’s obsession with Renée Zellweger’s face, there are some things that should just be general knowledge by now. Specifically, if Zellweger got work done to her face, it’s a reflection of an industry and society that makes women feel like monsters for being over the age of 25….
Grey has returned the Bronze Lion its Singapore office won at Cannes for its I Sea app, which purported to find refugees stranded in the Mediterranean. The app, which was eventually pulled after Grey said it was in the testing phase, caused a storm on Twitter and elsewhere. One blogger, global senior manager of sponsorship…
Last week, a corner of the internet went 100 percent gorillashit over a tweet comparing Taylor Swift’s vagina to a messy ham sandwich. And why shouldn’t it? It is gold-standard content, delightfully shocking and utterly insane. Several times that day, I returned to the tweet, pleasantly agog. But other people saw something more sinister in…
A horrible story from Minnesota, as reported by the Washington Post: A Minnesota traffic stop turned deadly Wednesday evening when a police officer opened fire on a black driver. The victim, 32-year-old Philando Castile, died at a Minneapolis hospital, a family member told The Washington Post. The aftermath of the shooting was filmed by…
Vitaly Mansky’s documentary Under The Sun is really two films, threaded together: one a carefully crafted lie, and the other something closer to the truth. A child of the former Soviet Union, Mansky has spent much of his career recording life in post-communist Russia, while occasionally taking his cameras to places like Cuba, where some…
If there’s anything to be said about Bernie Sanders fans, it’s that they’ve handled the past year with the sort of sensitivity so rarely seen in politics today. And now that Bernie Sanders has finally conceded to Hillary Clinton, they’re responding with the same fair-minded thoughtfulness we’ve all come to know and love. http://gawker.com/bernie-bites-t… You’ll…
Today in Dallas, the city held a memorial service for the five officers killed by Micah Johnson last week. The service was attended by Barack and Michelle Obama, among others. It was, as you would expect, a somber affair for everyone—everyone except George W. Bush, who was ready to fucking party. The video above captures…
Image: Green Arrow #13 Kevin Smith’s already directed an episode of The Flash, and he’s going to be back directing another episode for season three. But what he really wants to do is direct and write an episode of Arrow. Smith created Onomatopoeia as a villain for Green Arrow back in 2002. He’s the usual…