Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Ye be warned! Seriously. If you have not yet seen “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” do not keep reading. Get off your butt, go see the movie, and then come back and enjoy this mind-blowing analysis. This is a literary analysis. This is a literary analysis drawn from my own thoughts and…
Warning: Major spoilers ahead. Don’t read if you don’t want any details on the plot points of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” “Star Wars” is shallow and silly and campy and fun, and a dozen other synonyms that suggest we shouldn’t think about it too hard. I don’t usually—I watch “Star Wars” with an impressionist eye, the way I…
In one of the more visually stunning scenes of the new Star Wars movie, director J.J. Abrams creates a vast rally reminiscent of those Albert Speer organized for Adolf Hitler, replete with rhetoric glorifying a new kind of super-weapon. (Hint: It’s better than the Death Star!) A thousand storm troopers raise their hands in a…
Hillary Clinton has noted, at Tuesday night’s Democratic debate in Las Vegas, that electing a woman as president of the United States would be a historic first. She also, it seems fair to say, just became the first presidential candidate to make reference during a debate to how long it takes women to pee. Anderson…
Story highlights The dig at Trump comes after he attacked Clinton in a Monday night rally The campaign used Palmieri’s Twitter account to serve as its only reaction “We are not responding to Trump but everyone who understands the humiliation this degrading language inflicts on all women should. #imwithher,” Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri tweeted…
“Even a race to Obama, she was gonna beat Obama. I don’t know who would be worse, I don’t know, how could it be worse? But she was going to beat — she was favored to win — and she got schlonged, she lost, I mean she lost,” Trump said, using a vulgar Yiddish word…
Bernie Sanders nearly matched Hillary Clinton’s fundraising in the last quarter – raising an eye-popping $26 million to Clinton’s $28 million – and multiple sources on Clinton’s team told POLITICO they expect him to beat her when the next financial disclosures are filed next week. | AP Photo Clinton donors say Sanders is raising more…
Seeing the whole world is a fantasy that Michel DeCerteau calls the “totalizing eye” and Donna Haraway calls “the God Trick”. This is the first image taken of the whole earth in 1967. From Wikipedia. In January, I’m headed to the Responsible Data Forum’s event about Data Visualization. While there is a lot of hype…
The Hess Triangle outside of Village Cigars this week. (Photo by Sai Mokhtari/Gothamist) There is a small plot of land located outside of Village Cigars at Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street that’s got a big story behind it—it involves a headstrong landlord, the 7th Avenue subway extension, and the City of New York. The story…
https://youtu.be/H_19rSdEWao via Why Do Action Scenes Suck? – YouTube.