Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
James Bradfield worked the graveyard shift at a factory that built airplane parts in Jackson, Mississippi. It was a new job and he didn’t like the hours. He’d previously worked for a company that made radiators, but the company went out of business and Bradfield had to take the next job he could find. And…
Photo by Sarah Mirk, Creative Commons This Friday, people at memorials across the country will repeat a chorus of names: Keyshia Blige, Tamara Dominguez, Kandis Capri… the list goes on. November 20 is the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day recognizing the memory of lives lost to acts of anti-transgender violence. Transgender Day of…
By Susannah Hutcheson, Regular ContributorNovember 21, 2015 image via epykliving.co.uz Dear you, Yes, I’m talking to you. You with the crazy-curly hair, you with the bump on your nose, you with the legs scattered with marks from running around outside like crazy when you were a kid. I’m talking to you with the 4.0 GPA,…
Woman Finds Out Boyfriend of Six Years Is Undercover Cop Spying on Her and Her Friends All divs have been put onto one line because of whitespace issues when rendered inline in browsers BODY The most traumatising time of Lisa Jones’s life began when she agonised for months over the true identity of…
Last month, at long last, we enjoyed Back to the Future Day — the day to which Marty McFly travels in 1989’s Back to the Future Part II. It’s a kind of death sentence for our era: we’re all living in the future now; the time in which things might have changed has passed, and all…
Open Source By ROBERT MACKEY Usually, by the time the public learns the names and biographies of Islamic State militants, or radicals from other groups who attack civilians, they are already dead, and so unable to speak for themselves, except occasionally in the ritualized form of martyrdom videos or manifestoes posted online. This week, however,…
I say “I’m sorry” when I’m scared and I’m scared 50% of the time. The other 50% is spent in blissful ignorance as my brain catches up on all the things I should be scared of. I say “I’m sorry” when I point out to a stranger that they’ve dropped their MetroCard on the sidewalk….
November 12th marks the day that 104 Xbox 360 games will become backwards compatible with Xbox One, and according to Microsoft, more titles will continually be added to the list beginning in December. This feature, when it was announced at E3 earlier this year, was almost universally praised, and for good reason: it comes at…
LOL just sneaked into an op-ed in America’s paper of record. The French novelist Michel Houellebecq, author of several society-satirizing books, wrote a piece for the New York Times on the failures of French leadership following the recent attacks in Paris. The French will survive, he argues, out of force of habit at least, but “it’s unlikely that…
Colin Trevorrow’s Hollywood fairy tale started at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. The bespectacled, bearded director, then 35, came to Park City, Utah, with an endearingly quirky time-travel romantic comedy executive-produced by the endearingly quirky Duplass brothers, Mark and Jay, and starring Mark. The $750,000 indie film, ‘‘Safety Not Guaranteed,’’ went on to make…