Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames trafficked in hideous stereotypes and body-shaming. December 15, 2017 at 4:42 PM Taibbi released a new book about Eric Garner this year. (Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage) There’s more than one way to harass women. A raft of men in recent weeks have paid for accusations of sexual harassment with their…
Roy Moore walking into his rally in Midland City, Alabama on December 11th. Photograph by Justin Bishop. It’s hard to do justice to the weirdness of Roy Moore. It’s so pronounced that he couldn’t even pretend to be normal, not even for 30 minutes, not even long enough to stop scaring people who might be…
Photo: Disney Star Wars: The Last Jedi B+ Star Wars: The Last Jedi B+ B+ Star Wars: The Last Jedi Cast Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Carrie Fisher, Kelly Marie Tran, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Laura Dern, Benicio Del Toro Availbility Theaters everywhere December 15 Early into The Last Jedi,…
As of writing this there’s currently an almost 40% disparity between the critics and audience’s response to the latest Star Wars on Rotten Tomatoes. For all of the high moments, satisfying pay-offs, and generally cool Star Wars stuff, a movie that runs two hours and 33 minutes is bound to fall flat in some areas….
Photo: Disney This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson’s stylized contribution to the Star Wars mythos, returns to the series’ root influences—samurai films, pulp serials, 1940s wartime dramas—to create the most idiosyncratic Star Wars film to date. The humor is wacky and Spaceballs-and-Looney-Tunes-ish, the staging stark…
The Force Awakens was fun on its own merits, and thrilling in a nostalgic sort of way, and the fresh Star Wars youths were charming and compelling where they were supposed to be (Rey and Finn), and darkly charismatic where they were supposed to be (Kylo Ren), and absurdly good-looking and sexy where they were…
“This is not going to go the way you think.” – Luke Skywalker With Star Wars: The Force Awakens, director J.J. Abrams sought to prop up and revitalize the most popular film franchise in movie history, to preserve its qualities in amber for a new generation. The Force Awakens was very concerned about what you,…
(The Information) Prepare yourself for a list of allegations against Uber’s security and competitive intelligence team that resemble the work of an authoritarian government. A letter disclosed in Waymo’s civil trade-secrets-theft case against Uber, written by an ex-Uber security employee, alleges things like: *Unlawfully recording an employee conference call that was supposed to be part…
Note: Spoilers for The Last Jedi (YES ALL THE SPOILERS) I came out of watching The Last Jedi, and was like, “Well, that was good, but I’m not blown away.” It had a lot of threads; it felt like three movies in one, and cramming all that story into one movie made it feel a…
Dec. 15, 2017 7:59 a.m. ET Good morning. Advertising company holiday e-greeting cards usually make me cringe, so I will admit I was limbering up for a face-stretching grimace when MediaMath’s holiday message landed in my inbox. This year, MediaMath offered up an amusing holiday meditation. “There is no fraud. Your life is not being…