Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Sometimes things in pop culture align perfectly. Whether it’s synching up Pink Floyd’s “Echoes” with the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey, or a bunch of anime clips cut to “The Becoming” by Nine Inch Nails, a combination of seemingly disparate elements can come together and perfectly distill both to reveals their true essence. Such…
Courtesy @laurenpainter’s Instagram Vice’s new Williamsburg offices were robbed of $16K worth of laptops this week, proving again that one should never build a home on top of an Indian burial ground. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the magazine’s headquarters at South 2nd Street and Kent Avenue—once home to venerable institutions like 285 Kent, Death…
She was the reigning queen of detective fiction’s Golden Age – but Agatha Christie’s most intriguing mystery remains her unsolved disappearance in 1926. On a chilly December evening, the 36-year-old Christie vanished from her English estate in Sunningdale, Berkshire. While the famed author reportedly left a note that claimed she had gone on vacation, the…
Like several great memes before it, this one began at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which has since its inception been ripe for rabid online ingestion via themes of humiliation, fear, and triumph of the adolescent spirit. It’s a live television event akin to the grammatical Hunger Games, wherein wee sprouts still small enough to…
Continuing the controversial conversation of the lack of diversity in the fashion world, W Magazine has released a dope spread in their current August issue featuring all black models. Styled by renowned fashion stylist Edward Enninful and W’s current fashion and style director, the feature includes a plethora of savory shades of brown from caramel to dark chocolate….
The devil in this particular equation? “Legitimacy.” Today news broke that the UFC parted ways with one of their most recognizable figures. Not a fighter, not a commentator, not even a referee—but rather, a cutman by the name of Jacob “Stitch” Duran. Cutmen play a massively important role in the octagon: they tend to injuries…
Some would consider it as sacrilegious as when Coke dabbled with its classic formula back in the 80s, but after 98 years Converse has updated its iconic Chuck Taylor All-Stars. On the outside they look nearly identical, but on the inside the Chuck II is actually far more comfy for your feet. Before you feel…
I am a freak for the American road trip. And I’m not alone, as some of this country’s best writers have taken a shot at describing that quintessentially American experience. “There is no such knowledge of the nation as comes of traveling in it, of seeing eye to eye its vast extent, its various and teeming…
The Battlefield games look incredibly realistic, but that doesn’t mean everything in the games is 100 percent accurate. For example, the Stingers in Battlefield 3. Take note should you ever make propaganda! According to Russia-based game site Anton Logvinov, Russian-supported rebels in Ukraine allegedly found U.S. Military Stingers at Luhansk International Airport. In the video…
Presidential hopeful and would-be Christ figure Ted Cruz recently did an interview with The New York Times, and it’s an absolute must-read. Rather than delve deeply into policy, interviewer Ana Marie Cox presses the senator about who he is under that “wacko bird” exterior. As a youth, he was an unpopular nerd. He loved and still loves Spider-Man and…