Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
START “MORE ON” SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2 END “MORE ON” SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2 Spoilers ahead for the film Goosebumps In the 10th book in the original Goosebumps series, The Ghost Next Door, Hannah Fairchild is a tween on summer vacation with nothing to do but ride her bike and suspect her new…
Life is a strange game. You think you have things figured out, everything in its pretty little place, when suddenly the earth quakes and shatters. In the fallout, you desperately cling to what you know. Me? I snake my arms around music and hold on for dear life. A few weeks ago some dear friends…
Claim: The Coen brothers have announced plans to begin filming a Big Lebowski sequel in January 2015. FALSE Example: [Collected via e-mail, October 2014] Are they really making The Big Lebowski 2? Origins: On 10 September 2014, the National Report web site published an article positing that…
Photo Melissa Benoist in “Supergirl.” Credit Darren Michaels/CBS Kara Zor-El (Melissa Benoist), Earthling name Kara Danvers, comes from the same planet as her cousin Superman. But her personal kryptonite is her tendency to apologize for herself. Early in “Supergirl,” which begins Monday on CBS, we find Kara not leaping tall buildings but saying “Sorry! Sorry!”…
Zendaya is the cover star of this November’sModeliste magazine. instagram.com As part of her cover story, she participated in a photo shoot and interview. instagram.com This morning, Zendaya shared one of the photos from the shoot on her social channels, stating that the magazine appeareds to have photoshopped her hips and torso to make them smaller….
Last night, the third trailer for the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiered on YouTube and ESPN. Did you shit your dick? I definitely shat my dick. I think the dick-shittingest moment, for me, was when the new Darth Vader guy was doing the Force to the other guy’s brain, but the low-altitude aerial…
*pinches bridge of nose* *exhales noisily* Of course there’s a Star Wars Episode VII boycott. And there’s a hashtag to boot. Because of course there’s a hashtag. One-click buffet-style serving of shittiness, coming right up. (Behold, the Mary Sue article about it.) Apparently people are mad because blah blah black dude protagonist with a lightsaber, or…
In less than 24 hours, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has already exploded the records for at least two major ticket sales sites. According to a statement from Fandango, the seventh Star Wars movie has surpassed The Hunger Games’ sales record. “We have already sold eight times as many tickets as we did on the…
I’ve avoided Crazy Ex-Girlfriend so far for the obvious reason. Without any context, the series’ advertising and its title makes the show seem like ableist, sexist, cliched nonsense. Even though I knew the series almost had to be better than surface value indicated (surely no one would greenlight a show using that title sincerely now,…
Americans love TV, that mistress who gets to camp in the living room. We spend a quarter of our waking days with the TV on, maybe the biggest lode of human attention in the country. Advertisers pay for most of it — they know where you’ll be sitting, so they have ads meet you there….