Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Beginning Sync AdSlot 3 for Ad unit leader_a For the past couple of weeks, the “dad bod” has been sweeping the Internet as the latest “preferred” body type for men. Chris Pratt (pre-Guardians of the Galaxy), Seth Rogen, Leonardo DiCaprio, and many other celebrities fit the “trend,” and news outlets across the board were quick to praise the dad…
Holy crap, how was that not the first season finale? Last night’s episode of The Flash, innocuously titled “Rogue Air,” is jam-packed with everything that’s made the second series in the DC TV-iverse so enjoyable, but also takes the show to a new level of goodness. And we still have one more episode to go!…
Int3gr4/Wikimedia CommonsIn Columbia University’s student newspaper, four members of the school’s student Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board call on professors to be more sensitive when teaching provocative or controversial material… such as the Roman classical poet Ovid. Ovid is best known for The Metamorphoses, a 15-book narrative poem that covers more than 250 mythological stories. Written entirely…
Harry Shearer, who for decades has worked as one of the stars of The Simpsons—lending his voice to characters like Ned Flanders, Mr. Burns, Principal Skinner and Waylon Smithers—has seemingly announced he will no longer be working on the show. A story on TMZ over the weekend claimed that attempts to renew the long-running cartoon…
Oh no, someone took the Black Widow SNL sketch and turned it into a real series. CBS just released its first trailer for the Supergirl show and it is so depressingly paint-by-numbers we had to list the cliches off. But halfway in, it gets better. This is depressing. Why must this big, awesome female-led superhero…
<br /> I don’t care if anyone finds this cheesy. The first extended look at CBS’s forthcoming Supergirl television show made me cry tears of joy and I am over the moon about it. Now I’m going to go back in time and tell this little girl she was right on the money in loving…
I spend most of my time admiring and appreciating Joss Whedon’s writing skills. His feminism I can take or leave, but he’s very talented in the dialogue department: he understands why people like each other, why they love each other. He understands why they care and which parts of a story display humanity. He makes…
Some time in the middle of Avengers: Age of Ultron, I came to terms with the fact that there will never be any more decent Marvel movies. In fact, there can’t be. Some of what I have to say is going to read as genre snobbery. So let me get this out of the way:…
Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 If you are a white man and you think you do not own one of these books, try looking under your bed, it’s probably there. 1. Shogun, James Clavell 2. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut 3. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole 4. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace 5. A collection of…
When a retro cartoon/toy property aimed at boys gets the big screen treatment, the studios spend hundreds of millions of dollars bringing that property to life; just look at the budgets for projects like Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Those movies might not be critically loved, or even always loved by the fans…