Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Imagine a group of people who believe that manatees are destroying civilization. Even though there is abundant evidence showing that humans endanger manatees and not vice versa, this hypothetical group continues to insist that manatees are a menace. Imagine further that reporters are assigned to cover this group. But instead of including facts about manatees…
Image wrap box Free blurb with Takeaway A growing share of new homes on Airbnb are year-round rentals owned by hosts who never live in them. These rentals now surpass private rooms inside a house occupied by the host, one of Airbnb’s traditional offerings, according to company data for a week’s worth of listings from…
Melissa McCarthy plays detective Connie Edwards, who works with puppet partner Phil Philips (performed by Bill Barretta), in “The Happytime Murders,” a comedy directed by Brian Henson, the son of late puppet master Jim Henson. Hopper Stone/courtesy of STX Entertainment There are circumstances under which I could recommend The Happytime Murders, Brian Henson’s long-at-ninety-minutes detective…
‘The Happytime Murders’ Review: Melissa McCarthy’s Painfully Unfunny Puppet Noir Is an Utter Abomination The worst movie of the summer is here. /Author byline Share Tools /Share Tools IndieWire owes our readers an apology. Last week, in a moment of desperate optimism and/or extreme naïveté, this critic declared “Mile 22” was “far and away…
The Happytime Murders may not be this summer’s funniest movie. It may not be the smartest, or the most imaginative, or even, fundamentally, coherent. But it is most assuredly this summer’s only movie in which the plot hinges on the graphically depicted pubic hair of a nymphomaniac puppet. Life of the Party review – Melissa…
Ever since my mom died, I cry in H Mart. For those of you who don’t know, H Mart is a supermarket chain that specializes in Asian food. The “H” stands for han ah reum, a Korean phrase that roughly translates to “one arm full of groceries.” H Mart is where parachute kids go to…
Don’t believe your eyes and ears. Believe only me. That has been President Trump’s message to the public for the past two years, pounded in without a break: The press is the enemy. The news is fake. In raucous campaign rallies, in lie-filled Fox News interviews, through dissembling surrogates such as Kellyanne Conway and Rudolph…
Just before 5 P.M. on Tuesday, the afternoon of August 21, 2018, became one of those unforgettable Trump news cycles, like the moment when the “Access Hollywood” tape was released, on October 7, 2016, and Donald Trump’s voice was heard bragging about sexually forcing himself on women, or when the White House suddenly announced, on…
Digital advertising is awfully messy. From ad fraud, murky media supply chains, and Facebook and Google sucking up all the industry’s oxygen and budgets, digital marketing has seemingly never had more minefields. Brands are under increasing pressure to show that their digital ads are not just being seen but are effective. Brand-safety concerns have come to…
In the past two decades there has been a sharp drop in the share of national income going to working- and middle-class Americans. As the discontent among these workers begins to affect their livelihoods and the entire nation’s politics, policy makers must either hope the market will somehow fix wage stagnation or enact policies to…