Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In December of 2006, I embarked on my ninth USO Tour to entertain our troops, my eighth to the Middle East since the 9/11 attacks. My father served in Vietnam and my then-boyfriend (and now husband, Chris) is a pilot in the Air Force, so bringing a ‘little piece of home’ to servicemembers stationed far away from their…
The alignment of new laws, reader advocacy, and technology has opened up a challenge to user tracking tools. While some express concern that an end to unbridled tracking will hinder the digital ecosystem, this is an enormous opportunity for publishers to take the lead in building the next generation of personalization technology. However, this evolution…
MTV MTV’s short-lived animated series Clone High USA, which premiered 15 years ago this month, is one of those brilliant cult TV classics, like Arrested Development or Freaks and Geeks. The premise of the show, which was created by Chris Miller and Phil Lord, is honestly best described in its theme song: “Way way back in the…
MONTGOMERY, AL—Waving off the current allegations against him as vicious attempts to sabotage his election bid, Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore told reporters Monday that the women accusing him of pedophilia were only doing so now because “shifting sociocultural norms have created an environment in which assault allegations are taken seriously.” “These women have had…
AL Senate candidate Roy Moore/AP Right–wing conspiracy peddler Jack Posobiec—the guy who riled up his followers over “Pizzagate” and nearly got someone killed—appears to have gotten away with doxing AL Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore’s accuser. On Friday, Posobiec tweeted a photo of Leigh Corfman, who accused Moore of sexually assaulting her in 1979 when…
I don’t know exactly when I first heard the rumors about Louis C.K., but this is because of how frequently I’ve heard those rumors repeated — not with the hushed tones and gripped elbow of a worried girlfriend’s warning, the way such information is usually shared, but in jokes, told to comedians by comedians. “You’ve…
Louis C.K.’s I Love You, Daddy was already the world’s most terribly timed movie. It’s a would-be provocative comedy about how a man’s Woody Allen–esque hero starts pursuing his 17-year-old daughter — and is, at the time of writing, still scheduled to open right in the middle of our current maelstrom of stories about decades…
Image via Getty The revelation in Thursday’s New York Times that comedian Louis CK acted sexually inappropriate with women comedians was not a revelation to us here at Jezebel. In 2012, Jezebel’s sibling site, Gawker, ran a blind item about a “critically cherished sitcom auteur” who masturbated in front of “a female comedy duo” at…
react-text: 154 Here’s /react-text react-text: 156 one thing that I’m not concerned about right now: the question of what /react-text react-text: 158 today’s revelations /react-text react-text: 159 do to the artistic legacy of Louis C.K. /react-text react-text: 161 For certain fans of C.K.’s work, and I include myself among them, the stories that just appeared…
close story-meta Photo Louis C.K. in 2015. Five women have come forward to describe upsetting experiences with him. Credit Andrew Toth/FilmMagic, via Getty Images In 2002, a Chicago comedy duo, Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov, landed their big break: a chance to perform at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo. When Louis…