Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
1. The time Brad Pitt got food. Via Twitter: @AmyOtto8 2. The time Jennifer Lawrence wore clothes. Via Twitter: @marqualler 3. The time a bunch of bees got loose. Via f4ncyf3a5t.tumblr.com 4. The time Kendall Jenner decided to wear clothes that DIDN’T cover the lower half of her legs. Via Twitter: @DavidToluGraham 5. The time we learned what April Fools’ Day was. Via Twitter: @dtrombino…
Until recently, $300 million was the highest valuation that digital media companies aspired to. That’s around the price AOL paid for the Huffington Post. Subtract $100 million, and you’re in the ballpark of what NBC Universal paid for Daily Candy and what Turner paid for Bleacher Report. The latest class of digital media companies is…
The latest Fantastic Four flick is an abysmal flop of such proportions that multiple outlets have run what-went-wrong-style pieces in its wake. Today’s comes via The Hollywood Reporter and it is utterly delicious. Kim Masters’s “Fantastic Four Blame Game: Fox, Director Josh Trank Square Off Over On-Set ‘Chaos’” tells the story of a spandex-hungry studio…
The Perseids is my favorite meteor shower of the year, and this year is likely to be the best one in recent memory. Here’s when, where, and how to watch it—and just what is going to make this year so spectacular. Top image: 2010 Perseids / image courtesy of Michael Menefee. What Are the Perseids?…
Earlier this week, I was discussing with some fellow women speakers about unwanted advances we have received from other speakers. It sparked a discussion about how many notable speakers in this industry sexually harass, degrade, and generally make women uncomfortable at events. What upsets me is that these men keep being allowed to promote themselves,…
Massive explosions have hit China’s northern port city of Tianjin, reportedly injuring many people. According to Chinese state media, the blasts occurred when a shipment of explosives blew up at about 23:30 (16:30 GMT). Pictures and video shared on social media showed flames lighting up the sky and damage to nearby buildings. Latest reports in…
In 1994, Fox called upon Roger Corman, legendary director of decades of forgettable B movies, to produce a Fantastic Four movie. The finished product was never released—but lucky for all of us, it’s now online. Fascinated fans have flocked to watch the film after Reddit spotted it at Dailymotion. Here it is, in all its B-movie…
You’ve basically read this anti-trigger warning article before. You probably didn’t even see the far-less-popular follow-up, “I was a liberal adjunct professor. My liberal students didn’t scare me at all.” The stories people share about trigger warnings tend to wildly misunderstand the issue; this latest one literally depicts modern college students as babies. The Atlantic‘s piece makes some reference to work…
A Lowe’s department store in Danville, Virginia, was perhaps just a little too eager to please a customer who demanded that a black delivery driver stay away from her home, as some idiot at the store actually sent the truck back with a white crew so she could get her precious order of whatever the hell…
In 2006, Condé Nast, the New York-based publisher of Vogue and the New Yorker, among other magazines, bought a promising information-sharing and online-discussion startup called Reddit. At the time, social media was just taking off and big media conglomerates were scrambling for a piece of the action. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. had recently outfoxed Sumner…