Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page of the British rock band Led Zeppelin perform at the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia on July 13, 1985. (Rusty Kennedy/AP) Ask any die-hard Led Zeppelin fan about “Stairway to Heaven,” and eventually Bron-Yr-Aur will come up. It’s the name of the remote cottage in Wales where the…
Start Article Post Content Vice Media has recruited Austin Walker, news editor at CBS Interactive’s Giant Bomb, to head up its forthcoming dedicated site on video-game news and culture. Walker will start at Vice on July 5, working from the company’s Brooklyn headquarters. His first task: figuring out what he wants to do with the site, and what…
Photo John Nadler feels the full weight of his status as America’s loneliest supporter of Donald J. Trump: Acquaintances will not look him in the eye. Credit Richard Perry/The New York Times CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. — First came the grimaces — the disbelieving eyes trained upon his shirt, his signs, his car window stickers broadcasting a…
By Gregory Ciotti, marketing at Help Scout Music is regarded as one of the triumphs of human creativity. But does music itself help one to create? It’s a question worth asking, since music has increasingly become a part of the modern-day workplace. Music has a strange temporal permanence; as art decorates space, so does music…
In this terrible, horrible, completely disturbing video, a man takes a stack of McDonald’s burgers and fries and juices them into brown, mushy oblivion. It’s OK to gag. But it’s not OK to drink whatever comes out. Nooooo: Here’s what happens when you juice McDonald’s burgers. Source: Nooooo: Here’s what happens when you juice McDonald’s…
Deputy Washington Editor of the New York Times, Jonathan Weisman, announced this morning that he is abandoning Twitter as a social media platform after Twitter bizarrely claimed that threatening to kill “k*kes” is not a violation of the company’s terms of service. Twitter, like much of the Internet, has become a cesspool of hate. While I still…
(iStock) On June 4, the satirical news site the Science Post published a block of “lorem ipsum” text under a frightening headline: “Study: 70% of Facebook users only read the headline of science stories before commenting.” Nearly 46,000 people shared the post, some of them quite earnestly — an inadvertent example, perhaps, of life imitating comedy….
In a new report from TMZ, Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna are demanding a “seven-figure” deal in order to televise their upcoming wedding and what the fuck are we even doing anymore. What is this? Rob Kardashian is, of course, the youngest son of Robert Kardashian—the attorney who defended his friend, O.J. Simpson, against charges…
In a new profile for GQ’s cover story on Kim Kardashian, Caity Weaver delves deeply into the superficial life of the woman/commodity about whom she argues—rather convincingly—“not only does she live the American Dream; she has also managed to re-invent it.” Kardashian has taken the debits and assets she’s been given, Weaver writes—“murder, a sex…
For weeks, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has been touting his “youge!” fanbase with Mexicans, women, a slew of other minorities — often times alienating them with the same breath. On Wednesday, he added “the gays” to his list. On a campaign stop in Atlanta, Trump attempted to frame this past weekend’s horrific shooting in…