Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The original Star Trek was a revolutionary television show… that came to an ignominous end. The classic space opera saw a huge drop in quality in its final season, and then was cancelled. Legend has it the ratings were terrible, and the new producer, Fred Freiberger, ruined it. But the truth is a bit more…
For his 50th birthday, Jim Tananbaum, chief executive officer of Foresite Capital, threw himself an extravagant party at Burning Man, the annual sybaritic arts festival and all-hours rave that attracts 60,000-plus to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada over the week before Labor Day. Tananbaum’s bash went so well, he decided to host an even…
Marvel has released a prequel comic to the Avengers: Age of Ultron movie, and it reveals a bit about the origins of the Maximoff twins. Specifically, it explains where they got their superpowers, since mutants aren’t allowed to exist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Spoilers ahead! Although Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are Magneto’s children, the…
According to its publisher, at the spike of its popularity, two copies of E.L. James’ 50 Shades of Grey trilogy were being sold every second. In accessible terms, that works out to more than one hundred million copies sold, to date. Let’s undertake a thought experiment. Imagine that—rather than paper and ink—each of those books…
The Strongest Man on Game of Thrones Is Now the Strongest Viking in 1,000 Years This is not a joke. This is The Mountain That Lifts. UPDATE: Now with video! By Eric Vilas-Boas on February 3, 2015 NOTE THAT IF THERE IS A AUTHORSHIP PAGE THE NAME INSIDE THE SPAN.AUTHOR WILL BE WRAPPED IN AN…
The anger directed at HBO’s The Newsroom in December in the wake of an episode that attempted to capitalize on the debate surrounding the scourge of college sexual assault crystallized the complexity of emotions surrounding the very complicated issue plaguing campuses nationwide. At the time, the Rolling Stone/UVA debacle was dominating headlines — a magazine…
It’s been a problem that creators who’ve worked on Superman projects have been dealing with for decades: How do you make the near-omnipotent Man of Steel feel more relatable? Ironically, the newest solution comes from giving Kal-El yet another superpower. Warning: Spoilers and images for today’s Superman #38 follow. The latest issue of the ongoing…
Fans of Arrow may not have tuned in just to see Brandon Routh suit up as Ray Palmer a.k.a. ‘The Atom’, but the show has been slowly building to the Justice League member’s reveal nonetheless. The show’s brilliant billionaire may still be constructing his suit of armor, but today DC Comics has released the very first official…
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis easily swept the 2014 Grammy Awards, racking up wins in multiple rap categories at a ceremony that has historically been blind to the cultural impact of many revered hip-hop artists.Critics argued that even in 2014, it still took a white rapper like Macklemore to achieve this, while Kendrick Lamar left without…
Black or White is offensive. Not because of its patronizing view of race relations, not because of the horrible acting—although that is all there in spades. It’s offensively boring. Every minute of this movie felt like an hour. In the back of my head was one of those cartoon clocks going “tick… tick… tick… tick.”…