Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A five-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom townhouse on West 101st Street has hit the market for the first time in almost 40 years. Owned by artist Annette Oko, whotook over the deed in 1978, the house is part of a group of six sister brownstones on the block and, according to the brokerbabble, has appeared in movies such as the The Chosen and Woody Allen’s Shadow and…
Bruce Willis was dead all along. Walter White dies at the end. Lots of people die at the Red Wedding. Spoilers are everywhere on the web, but a new Google patent may be able to save those who haven’t caught up on the latest TV shows and films from plot points their friends are wantonly dropping on…
WASHINGTON — A white police officer in North Charleston, S.C., was charged with murder on Tuesday after a video surfaced showing him shooting in the back and killing an apparently unarmed black man while the man ran away. The officer, Michael T. Slager, 33, said he had feared for his life because the man had…
Earlier today, Marvel unveiled its “remastered” edition of the 1977 comic adaptation of Star Wars. Many were unhappy to see the art of Howard Chaykin redone with a modern comic’s color palette, including writer John Gholson, who took to Twitter to show how much a comic loses when it’s recolored. The thrust of Gholson’s main…
Let’s the comments begin! Some will dig it, some will not, if the last posts I did about this are any indication. My thoughts: The CGI and ships look good The Starfleet uniforms are hideous. They tightened up the editing in post-production, which I figured they would, versus what we’ve seen to date Great Trek…
Oscar Isaac is a name you need to know — even if he has a face that you can’t recognize. Often hiding behind a mustache or beard, the actor has garnered critical acclaim for his starring roles in A Most Violent Year with Jessica Chastain and as the title character in Inside Llewyn Davis, for…
What good is a set of wheels on the bottom of your suitcase if somewhere between checking your bag and retrieving it from a luggage carousel one or two of them have been broken off? Your bags are actually harder to transport after that happens. But since standing spinner suitcases are just so convenient, Heys…
Starting Tuesday, you can buy an HBO subscription without having to pay for cable. The premium cable channel’s HBO NOW service started to welcome subscribers on Tuesday, a few days ahead of the channel’s biggest premiere of the year, the new season of “Game of Thrones.” “We’re making HBO available in as many ways as…
Steven B. Chesbro and John Garland say that African-American candidates for admission to the university as well as faculty positions were given preference. Alabama State UniversityScreenshot /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Two white faculty members at Alabama State University have filed a lawsuit against the school in which they claim that ASU discriminates against whites in its hiring…
As the 2016 election approaches, the debate among the intelligentsia appears like it will center around the question of inequality. While income is distributed unequally in the country, what few people know is how much more unequally wealth, financial assets and inheritances are distributed. As the chart below shows, income is only part of the…