Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Not long after the U.S. got involved in World War II, the Office Of Naval Intelligence struck a deal with the Jewish mob and the Italian crime families of New York to put the screws to the longshoremen’s unions and keep supply ships on the Northeastern seaboard safe from the presumed threat of Nazi saboteurs….
“Cock up yuh bumpa, siddung pon it!” I knew the words, but they were coming from an unfamiliar voice. Drake’s quick interpolation of Popcaan’s 2014 hit “Love Yuh Bad” on Views’ “Too Good” felt stilted, an awkward attempt to reconcile the fact that Poppy was missing from the album’s cut of “Controlla.” For many American…
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Comic book fans have argued for decades over who has the sharpest mind in Marvel’s 9,000-plus-character universe. There are about eight unaided contenders in the primary fictional canon and they’re all male and most are white. Genius scientist Reed Richards, also known as Mister Fantastic, is widely regarded to be the brainiest among them. But…
The biggest problem with The Killing Joke movie’s portrayal of Batgirl goes beyond a poor approach to a female character. Its biggest problem is that what it adds to Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s original 1988 comic is so pointless, that its shoddy treatment of Barbara Gordon becomes all the more insulting. In the wake…
The Killing Joke is a 30-year-old Batman graphic novel that goes to ugly places, especially in what it does Batgirl. And when folks expressed anger at Barbara Gordon’s portrayal in a new, controversial scene in the upcoming film adaptation during a DC panel, things got ugly in real life. Batman: The Killing Joke is most…
Feminist writer Roxane Gay and poet Yona Harvey will write a Marvel comic series set in the same world as Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther series, The New York Times reports. Reportedly coming this November, the series will be called World of Wakanda, and it will go deeper into the stories of the women of the Black…
If this is what it means to “Make America Great Again,” then Donald Trump and I have a very different definition of the word “great.” Watch Full Frontal with… GÖP-erdämmerung | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube. Source: GÖP-erdämmerung | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube
Watch Usher, Cyndi Lauper, Sheryl Crow & Others Tell Politicians ‘Don’t Use Our Song’ 7/25/2016 by Gil Kaufman Gil Kaufman The list of artists demanding that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stop using their songs during the Republican National Convention grew longer and longer as last week’s gathering in Cleveland went on. From the Rolling Stones…
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