Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The award-winning Rory Duffy says Americans, long accustomed to lower-priced made-to-measure menswear, are blind to the beauties of bespoke clothing. If all was as it should be in the world, Rory Duffy, 33, a lanky fifth generation master tailor from County Monaghan, Ireland, would be celebrated as the finest tailor in New York City, draping…
Supermodel and TV host Chrissy Teigen has made an art out of taking misogynistic trolls to task—including Piers Morgan and Geraldo Rivera. Why be pretty when you can be petty… and pretty! While the rest of us were busy deciding which Katy Perry concert tee to wear to the #TaylorSwiftIsOverParty, Chrissy Teigen has been quietly taking internet…
Letters between Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer have attracted mockery. But artists will be artists, and at least the duo bravely ventured outside 140 characters to express themselves. There is, inevitably, a fair bit of snarking over the email exchange between Jonathan Safran Foer and Natalie Portman as captured in this weekend’s New York…
Tough news. Well this sucks to write: This. will go offline at the end of the month. I’m tempted to make the explanation for that complicated, but it’s pretty simple: we worked ourselves to the point of exhaustion, struggled to raise money and just ran out of time. The site, newsletter and app are beloved…
Pokémon Go, the addictive game that makes users walk around their neighborhoods to catch Pokémon, already has been installed on phones more often than Tinder. And it turns out that the ’90s nostalgia fest is a pretty good dating app by itself. Pokémon Go combines the randomness of meeting people in a bar, but adds…
(NEWSER) – The unraveling of society is continuing apace following the release of Pokemon Go. The Los Angeles Times reports two men playing the insanely popular augmented reality game fell off a bluff Wednesday in Encinitas, California. One fell 50 feet and was knocked unconscious; the other fell between 75 and 100 feet. Both suffered moderate injuries after…
The new fundraising logo from the RNC looks… well, just see for yourself. The team surrounding presumptive Republican nominee for president Donald Trump hasn’t exactly been lauded for its design savvy, but the RNC’s first logo for the newly minted Trump-Pence ticket might be the worst yet. A fundraising email sent Friday afternoon by the…
Mike Pence, he’s this dick. He may or may not end up being Donald Trump’s pick for vice president, once Trump The Showman has done a few more misdirec … LOOK OVER THERE! But at much of a doucher as Mike Pence is, we weren’t mad until we read this, from Buzzfeed, about his 2000…
Since a little boy was dragged to his death by an alligator at Disney’s Grand Floridian in Orlando, people have been looking for answers. The answer to the question, “How could this happen?” is almost certainly, “It’s Florida and alligators live there,” but people keep digging. Now they’ve unearthed some very damning emails from the…
Nikki Glaser’s Comedy Central show Not Safe usually focuses on the sexual exploits people are shy to talk about openly, but on Tuesday, she dedicated a segment to the subject most universities don’t want to admit is event happening: campus rape. With special guest Katie Nolan, Glaser focuses largely on rape perpetrated by sports stars…