Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Gail Simone’s twitter feed is wonderful. She is always tweeting fun and interesting stuff about writing, fandom and trolling Kieron Gillen. Yesterday were no different. Because she told a very lovely and personal story about herself, Joss Whedon and Wonder Woman. So here is the slightly bittersweet story of how I met @josswhedon. — GAIL…
Three-year-old Saria Amaya waits with her mother after receiving shoes and school supplies during a charity event in October to help more than 4,000 underprivileged children at the Fred Jordan Mission in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles. Children from low-income families now make up a majority of public school students in the nation,…
The show is out of Arkham Asylum and back to its inert mob war, still desperately in need of a change in pace. Fox After a two-week jaunt in Arkham Asylum, Gotham is right back to where it started: Jim Gordon is a Gotham PD detective, Carmine Falcone is engaged in an internal mob war…
For French Jews, the choice between France and Israel is no choice at all. Bullet holes scar the storefront of the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris. (Charles Platiau/Reuters) Journalists and Jews: The victims of the atrocity in Paris are a shattering reminder of an old historical conjunction. The link between Charlie Hebdo and Hyper…
Millions of people are more than willing to pay for steady access to streaming content. Netflix counts 50 million subscribers to its online video library, and Spotify has 12.5 million listeners ponying up a monthly fee for a massive buffet of music. For magazines, however, the idea of paying a flat fee for unlimited access hasn’t caught on. The idea of banding together into…
Last year’s crashes of rockets operated by Virgin Galactic and Orbital Sciences came as a reminder of the risks inherent in commercial space ventures. But now a rush of new fundraising in the private space sector shows that investors are still prepared to back the start-ups behind the private space race if the potential reward is…
The noose is tightening around men and women who are indispensable to facilitating independent coverage of the country. Zhao Yan, a Chinese journalist jailed while working for The New York Times, escorted by relatives after his release from the state security prison in Beijing (Claro Cortes IV/Reuters) For her last two years in China, Angela…
Photo Megyn Kelly in front of Fox News headquarters in New York. Credit Stephanie Sinclair for The New York Times close shareTools On a gray Wednesday in November, the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and four producers gathered around a conference table on the 17th floor of the News Corporation building in Manhattan. They were…
You know what, I’m sort of irritated at the never ending list of gifs, articles and blog posts about Obama throwing shade or giving no f*cks in his SOTU address. I understand that America loves a man who gives the finger to The Man, so we applaud say… a flight attendant who gives the finger…
Our economy is growing. The Afghanistan war is over. The State of our union is strong. Congress, here’s what you can’t do: shut down the government, repeal health insurance, or unravel new Wall Street rules. Or you’ll hear from my veto. Now, on to the middle class. We’re going to help them afford child care,…