Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
It is a fact universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of an opinion must be in want of a correction. Well, actually, no it isn’t, but who doesn’t love riffing on Jane Austen? The answer is: lots of people, because we’re all different and some of us haven’t even read Pride and Prejudice dozens…
Related: Star Wars: The Force Awakens review – ‘what a Christmas present’ A group of Star Wars fans are threatening to spoil The Force Awakens, the latest episode in the franchise, on social media unless studio Disney agrees to film the saga’s abandoned “expanded universe” stories. Lucasfilm executives announced in April 2014 that only the six…
page ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Will Effectively Ignore ‘Into Darkness’ INFOLINKS_ON While the action-packed first trailer for “Star Trek Beyond” was greeted with a mixed reaction from fans, it made clear the sequel won’t carry on the tone “Star Trek Into Darkness.” In fact, many franchise faithful will be pleased to know, it won’t even give…
Fans have complained that the recent Star Trek movies don’t do enough to explore the philosophical issues that were at the heart of classic Trek. But Justin Lin, the director of Star Trek Beyond, told us the new movie is all about debating Starfleet’s philosophies. io9 was among a handful of outlets that spoke to…
Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora Media, speaks during an interview in October 2015. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Bloomberg / Getty Images cache hit 281:single/related:badc38340fa71907b825e2f63cd2a7aa empty Internet radio services like Pandora will have to pay more to artists and their representative groups, according to a decision released today by the Copyright Royalty (CRB). The basic per-song rates paid by Pandora will…
The trailer for Star Trek: Beyond crash landed this week amid the shouting of Beastie Boys and the moans of fanboys. No less than nerd icon and former Star Trek whipping boy Wil Wheaton found himself utterly baffled by this attempt to turn the long-running sci-fi series into a conventional Hollywood blockbuster. The trailer was…
Ally Burguieres, an artist from New Orleans, is accusing Taylor Swift of using one of her designs to promote Swift’s album 1989. The design Burguieres is referring to is a picture of a cute little fox. Last year, while Swift was promoting the release of her new album, the singer would post images to her various social accounts along…
There I am on the side of a cliff, feeling pretty good. What possessed me to get up there? Pouches. See that belt around my waist? That’s got a pouch on. In fact it’s got two. Sometimes there are more, but that depends on where I’m going, and what for. Pouches are as versatile as your…
Luke (aka Vadim Black) and Ben (aka Sean Cody’s Sean) (links NSFW) are two straight-identified guys who make their living by doing gay porn. They were both profiled on last night’s True Life: I’m a Gay for Pay Porn Star. They were both extremely firm on their heterosexual orientation (no doubt because their line of…
[This piece was originally posted on Jennie Steinberg’s blog. It has been republished here with permission.] ADVERTISING Last night, my partner and I watched an episode of How I Met Your Mother for the first time since the finale. We were browsing through Netflix for something quick and funny, and decided it was time to be nostalgic and…