Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Tishman Speyer Properties, one of New York City’s most active real estate developers, had bought two parcels of land on the Far West Side of Manhattan to clear the way for a 2.8-million-square-foot office tower planned for Hudson Yards. Standing in the way, though, were the occupants of two apartments on the site. So this…
Photo Jeb Bush performed a faux striptease to reveal a “Reagan-Bush ’84” campaign shirt at his headquarters in September. Credit Joe Raedle/Getty Images The hints of irreverence can be traced to a private meeting in Coral Gables, Fla., with the soon-to-be presidential candidate and his rapper acquaintance. Jeb Bush had grown fond of Pitbull, the…
Earlier this week, Rich Juzwiak published a deeply-researched history of director Quentin Tarantino’s love affair with the word “nigger,” a word he has always used liberally in his screenplays. Juzwiak unearthed and examined twenty years worth of Tarantino’s varied and contradictory defenses of his use of the word. He also produced this video, a supercut…
Courtesy of Disney/Lucasfilm Start Article Post Content ROME – Amid a chorus of overwhelmingly stellar reviews around the planet for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” Vatican daily L’Osservatore Romano begs to differ, calling the film “confused and hazy” and, even worse, opining that it “fails most spectacularly” in its representation of evil. The newspaper owned by…
J may be up to his old tricks — or just in need of a copy editor. In the opening crawl for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, there appears to be a punctuation error. If there isn’t, it’s one hell of a hint as to what might be coming in the next two episodes. Note: Spoilers…
(via tipster) A straphanger taunted and lunged at two people with a tiny, sharp, pointy object on the A train on Friday night, threatening to cut them and get away with it while air kissing and waving at the subway passenger filming the incident. In a 2:15 video of the attack, the suspect dramatically…
The family of a man shot and killed by police in suburban Atlanta denied on Wednesday that he pointed a gun at an officer. At a press conference, a sobbing Cynthia Daniels said her husband, Bobby Daniels, “would never, ever point a gun at an officer.” (Reuters) Douglas County sheriff’s deputies got the call around…
The turret choir echoes throughout Aperture Science on this icy evening! Merry Christmas everyone and I wish you all a great new year! ^_^A Portal-style homage to ‘Carol Of The Bells’ by Mykola Leontovych and Peter J. Wilhousky. Probably the most complex vocal and music arrangement I’ve ever made. Lots of different layers and instruments…
It’s uncanny! Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at a rally in the city, April 17, 2014, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Dec. 21, 2015Photo illustration by Slate. Rob Ford by Geoff Robins/AFP/Getty Images. Donald Trump by Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. Excerpted from The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon…
Scott Summers has not been in Marvel’s new X-Men books. Okay, well, his time-displaced teen self has, but that’s a long story for another time. But while Cyclops has been absent, he’s had a very strong presence in the X-Men’s current adventure—for very bad reasons. And his latest moment is no exception. Spoilers ahead for…