Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
1. I am six. My babysitter’s son, who is five but a whole head taller than me, likes to show me his penis. He does it when his mother isn’t looking. One time when I tell him not to, he holds me down and puts penis on my arm. I bite his shoulder, hard. He…
“Nightly Show” host Larry Wilmore isn’t sure which is worse: Donald Trump for wanting to ban all Muslims or the massive crowd of tea party members who cheered after he said it. He settled on the people cheering but for comedy’s sake, “Donald J. Asshole” is the easier target for Tuesday night’s show. Wilmore was…
At least 80 Boston College students got sick after eating at a Chipotle restaurant in Boston, and health officials believe the food-borne illness is norovirus. Illnesses linked to the chain have been reported in up to nine other states in the past month. (AP) Last month, Chipotle closed 43 restaurants in Washington and Oregon after health authorities…
We’re living in a freaking golden age of superhero television shows right now, especially if you count things like Netflix. But even with such a wealth of amazing stuff hitting our screens lately, Agents of SHIELD feels pretty unique. And last night’s non-stop-madness episode was the proof. Spoilers ahead… Agents of SHIELD has always had…
Oh, was last night’s Agents of SHIELD some kind of tour de force? Did it have you on the edge of your seat? Was it a game changer? I hope so, because as good as it was, there’s absolutely no damn way it was as fun as last night’s The Flash, the first part of…
A monthlong Gizmodo investigation has uncovered compelling and perplexing new evidence in the search for Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. According to a cache of documents provided to Gizmodo which were corroborated in interviews, Craig Steven Wright, an Australian businessman based in Sydney, and Dave Kleiman, an American computer forensics expert who died…
Supergirl is slowly finding its feet as a show with a quirky spin on superheroics, and there’s still a bit of clunkiness in the mix. But scenes like this one, between Supergirl and James Olsen, are why this show has already earned my undying love. Spoilers ahead! So the actual plot of “Red Faced” is…
But not in a good way. Look, I’m not trying to throw shade on the original trilogy. Obviously, despite being captured in A New Hope and Return of the Jedi, Princess Leia was never a mere damsel-in-distress: she was crucial in her own escape from the Death Star after those dum-dums Luke and Han forgot…
If you were at all worried that Gotham would somehow have run out of complete and total insanity prior to its fall finale, “Worse Than a Crime” must have been quite a comfort to you. For instance, James Gordon became a straight-up villain, and that wasn’t even close to the craziest thing that happened last…
*** CONTENT STARTS HERE *** Who bought the most expensive album ever made? Who bought the most expensive album ever made? It was one of the greatest sales pitches the music industry has ever heard. In March 2014, Robert Diggs, better known as RZA, the producer and de facto leader of the Wu-Tang Clan, the…