Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Still from Woody Allen’s Manhattan Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, William Burroughs, Richard Wagner, Sid Vicious, V. S. Naipaul, John Galliano, Norman Mailer, Ezra Pound, Caravaggio, Floyd Mayweather, though if we start listing athletes we’ll never stop. And what about the women? The list immediately becomes much more difficult and tentative: Anne Sexton? Joan…
An ad-tech firm says it has discovered a large and sophisticated advertising-fraud operation in which fake websites and infected computers were used to scam advertisers and publishers out of upward of hundreds of thousands of dollars a day. Denmark-based Adform, identifier of the scheme, named it “Hyphbot” and estimates that it has been going on…
Eight women have told The Washington Post that longtime television host Charlie Rose made unwanted sexual advances toward them, including lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas. The women were employees or aspired to work for Rose at the “Charlie Rose” show from the late…
Damon Lindelof has two compelling reasons for taking on a TV adaptation of the groundbreaking comic-book series Watchmen: He wants to pay homage to his father’s passion for comics, and he doesn’t think we should trust people who wear masks. During a discussion with The Good Placecreator Mike Schur at Vulture Festival L.A. on Saturday, Lindelof didn’t reveal…
Nov. 17, 2017 5:00 a.m. ET Less than a year after Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei launched the media startup Axios with plans to upend the way news organizations deliver stories and advertising, the company is plotting a major expansion of its newsroom. To fund the expansion, Axios has raised $20 million, according to Axios co-founder…
Going beyond search, the internet giant is promoting a single result over all others, and many are contentious, improbable or laughably incorrect Google handles 90% of the world’s internet searches, and it increasingly is promoting a single answer for many questions. Here’s how the algorithms are—and aren’t—working Google became the world’s go-to source of information…
In December of 2006, I embarked on my ninth USO Tour to entertain our troops, my eighth to the Middle East since the 9/11 attacks. My father served in Vietnam and my then-boyfriend (and now husband, Chris) is a pilot in the Air Force, so bringing a ‘little piece of home’ to servicemembers stationed far away from their…
MTV MTV’s short-lived animated series Clone High USA, which premiered 15 years ago this month, is one of those brilliant cult TV classics, like Arrested Development or Freaks and Geeks. The premise of the show, which was created by Chris Miller and Phil Lord, is honestly best described in its theme song: “Way way back in the…
I don’t know exactly when I first heard the rumors about Louis C.K., but this is because of how frequently I’ve heard those rumors repeated — not with the hushed tones and gripped elbow of a worried girlfriend’s warning, the way such information is usually shared, but in jokes, told to comedians by comedians. “You’ve…
Louis C.K.’s I Love You, Daddy was already the world’s most terribly timed movie. It’s a would-be provocative comedy about how a man’s Woody Allen–esque hero starts pursuing his 17-year-old daughter — and is, at the time of writing, still scheduled to open right in the middle of our current maelstrom of stories about decades…