Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Of 89 new non-TPB comics releasing this week, February 24, 2016, women write 4. See bold names below. By publisher, women write: BOOM!: 0 of 4 Dark Horse: 0 of 6 DC: 0 of 20 Dynamite: 0 of 3 IDW: 1 of 17 Image: 0 of 17 Marvel: 3 of 22 Munchkin #14 Peanuts #31…
Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer in “Broad City”/ Courtesy Comedy Central Over the past few weeks, I have been dabbling with a new mobile app called Hey!Vina, which is essentially Tinder for female friendships. (Don’t judge, it’s hard to meet people in New York.) Users build a profile, write a bio introducing themselves, and then swipe…
Read the Open Letter to the CEO of Yelp thing. Also, the reactions to it. It’s hilarious to me, how this now works. “You should’ve expected to be fired for this.” Yeah. She did. But after months of starving herself and recognizing she will never claw her way out of this hole, she at least…
As a leading hyperglocal thinkfluencer and advocate for the dynamic new era of Journalism 3.0, I am often asked: What are the hot media properties to watch? Which innovators should we seek to emulate? And who is making the future, today? In response to popular demand, here are six of my favorite media startups…
We see a lot of ridiculous tech products in our inboxes — everything from a connected toothbrush to a belt that loosens as you eat too much. But the Freewrite, which calls itself the “world’s first smart typewriter,” is ridiculous on another level. The Freewrite is a $500 word processor. The device, which has Wi-Fi,…
“[One] root of this is probably salaries: the fact that most male actors make more money than their female counterparts, plus the trend that the female directors who do work make ‘smaller’ movies,” says producer Alicia Van Couvering (Tiny Furniture, Cop Car, Drinking Buddies). “Men get used to making money on more and bigger…
I’m going to tell you the truth, friend. You say you want the truth. You say you want someone who speaks boldly and brashly and bluntly and “tells it like it is” and so on. According to exit polls in South Carolina, voters who want a president who “tells it like it is” are an essential…
Photo Credit Ji Lee Following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, Senate Republicans apparently believe they can profit by creating a political crisis that the nation has never seen before. On Tuesday, the leadership doubled down on its refusal to take any action on any nominee from President Obama to replace Justice Scalia. Senator Mitch…
Last week’s X-Files episode, “Babylon,” ended with a sign from above. Trumpets sounded in the sky. Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) heard them. Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) did not. The season finale, written and directed by creator Chris Carter, plunges us straight into the portended abyss. “My Struggle II” opens with a monologue similar to the one…