Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
He won six N.B.A. championships, is the greatest scorer ever and once netted 38 points while battling the flu. The logo of a billion-dollar sneaker brand is a silhouette of him flying through the air. But on Twitter, Michael Jordan is a loser. For the past two years, a photograph of Jordan crying, snapped at…
Actor Paul Marcarelli is back on television, but with Sprint. He previously spent a decade as a pitchman for Verizon. Sprint Many of you will remember Verizon’s “Can you hear me now?” campaign. You know, the one that featured a horn-rimmed glasses-sporting “Test Man” asking the now-oft-repeated question. Well, the “Test Man” is back, and…
I’m not sure where the idea came from. I was probably tired from working two jobs, or maybe I was getting sick. My main job as a karaoke host means that everyday I handle microphones that have been spit on, rubbed against chapped lips, and Total Eclipse of the Heart-ed into a state of contamination that…
I’ve been trying to write this essay for a few weeks. Every time I sit down to start, only bile comes out. The hurt I want to document goes deeper than a neat thesis statement. I feel betrayed, and betrayal is more like an infection than a broken bone. There is no way to easily…
Image caption “Mahalet and the honeymilk,” by Meg Griffiths, from the series Honeymilk End K2 Item Layout JoomlaWorks “K2” (v2.7.0) | Learn more about K2 at http://getk2.org //MAIN CONTENT SIDEBAR RIGHT //SIDEBAR RIGHT SPOTLIGHT 2 //SPOTLIGHT 2 In late March, Eater published a Hillary Dixler essay, “How Gullah Cuisine Has Transformed Charleston Dining.” The title was clickbait….
Every week throughout season six, a handful of Vox’s writers will discuss the latest episode of Game of Thrones. Before you dig in, check out our recap of Sunday’s episode, as well the archive of our entire discussion to date. Next up this week is executive editor Matt Yglesias. Matt Yglesias: I have a different…
Listen guys, I get it. You hate the orange guy with the crazy hair. You love the old guy with the crazy hair. You think Hillary is a woman but she sends too many emails. Wow, you’re soooo political. Good for you. I just don’t like to get into that sort of thing. I’d rather…
During the first week there was somebody who posted a picture of them holding a target, saying, “Gonna go home and watch Buzzy.” That frightened me. There was a troll who was wishing really awful things on me, more weird than anything. He wanted me to get Crohn’s disease and hoped I would get T-boned…
On Thursday, the Tor Project quietly announced the departure of leading digital rights activist Jacob Appelbaum from its board. At first, they didn’t say why — now, we know. On Friday afternoon, members of the cryptography community accused Appelbaum publicly of multiple instances of sexual assault against people in the Tor community, and attributed these…
Donald Trump, whose campaign for president has crashed through one barrier after another, has again moved his candidacy into highly questionable territory, threatening to stir more racial animosity in an already divided country and putting at risk his party’s relationship with the nation’s fastest-growing minority group. Over the past week, Trump has repeatedly cited the…