Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Heroes and villains join forces to become DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, beginning January 21 on The CW! SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/TheCWSubscribe About DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: Time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter must assemble a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat to the planet…and to time itself. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is coming…
We got the briefest of glimpses for Legends of Tomorrow earlier this year, when Oliver and Barry teamed up to recruit a team of time-travelling superheroes and villains. But now we’ve got our first offical look at the series, and it’s looking amazing. http://io9.com/arrow-and-flas… There’s a mix of old and new footage in…
“The Man In The High Castle.” (David Berg/Amazon) We have a Nazi analogy problem. “Nazi,” in an argument, doesn’t buy quite as much as it used to. We have Godwin’s Law (as an online discussion goes on, the probability of a Nazi comparison approaches 1) and its corollaries (the first person to make a Hitler…
The week before Thanksgiving saw some of the most overtly xenophobic, militaristic and fact-free media proclamations since the weeks in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and Glen Greenwald appeared on CNN over the weekend to call out the cable news network for its role leading the beat of war drums. “Reliable…
London Blitz vs ISIS Blitz Sack cartoon: Contrasting responses to threats – StarTribune.com.
(courtesy Ann Toback) Seats on 42nd Street subway Shuttle cars are wrapped with symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, intended to carry commuters into the alternate history of the Amazon TV series, The Man in the High Castle, in which the Axis Powers were victorious. “Half the seats in my car had Nazi…
A couple months ago, you may have seen a commercial for Apple Music floating around the internet, perhaps accompanied by a praise hands emoji or an all-caps “SLAY.” Unlike previous ads for the streaming service, it eschews the global “everyone listening to the same Pharrell song all the time” vibe and aims for the hyper-relatable: just a…
You could watch Amazon’s new series, Man in the High Castle, based on the Philip K. Dick novel about an alternate timeline where the Nazis won World War Two, or you could just read the news, where leading Republican presidential candidate and literal fascist Donald Trump continues to lie and lie with no apparent end…
Nov 20 2015 :: by Alex An ex-coworker of mine has posted this gem to a russian bash.org, so I decided to translate this and steal all the credit post this to my blog under his permission. more xxx: OK, so, our build engineer has left for another company. The dude was literally living…
early 10,000 people are petitioning moviegoers across the country to boycott Paramount Pictures’s upcoming Zoolander sequel on the grounds that the movie is transphobic and to be honest…they’re probably right. Last week, the first trailer for Zoolander 2 finally dropped and we got a look at what to expect from Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson’s…