Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last year I got all caught up rewatching Arrested Development, and in a state of naive comic bliss, I decided to give the fourth season a second chance as well. Despite some high points, it was somehow even worse than I remembered. It’s not just bad, aspects of it are actually depressing. So I’m…
President Trump (that still feels way weirder than writing 2017 on a check) apparently shocked congressional leaders yesterday by claiming, in an extended riff, that he only lost the popular vote because of between three and five million votes which were cast illegally. The reaction to this has been strong and bipartisan, with both Republican…
Getty Images A journalism professor raises some excellent points. It’s damn near impossible to turn on a cable-news show and not see Kellyanne Conway sitting there, doing verbal parkour to try to explain how whatever awful thing Donald Trump (or his press secretary) just did was actually neither offensive nor terrifying, and really, it’s all…
The Expanse, based on the book series by James S A Corey, is an intelligent look at a nearish future when humanity has advanced enough to move into space, but not quite so much that we don’t all still hate each other. The sharpest feelings of anger and envy come from the Belters, the working…
If you want to sleep with a robot, you don’t have to wait decades for a Westworld-style theme park of carnal delights. The future of virtual sex is already here. Strap on enough hardware, and the avatar of your dreams will grind to the beat of your teledildonics. Today’s smart dolls are becoming increasingly lifelike — nowhere…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivej0OW7WZk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivej0OW7WZk Epic space action, complicated relatable characters, and … adorable cats. See what made Season 1 of The Expanse so amazing, as told through cute kitties. Season 2 returns to Syfy on February 1, 2017! » Subscribe To Syfy: http://bit.ly/SubToSyfy More about ‘The Expanse’: This hour-long, ten episode series is based on the popular…
This review includes major spoilers for “The Six Thatchers.” Sherlock is consistently inconsistent, veering between compelling drama (Sherlock’s death at the end of season 2) and self-indulgent nonsense (“The Abominable Bride“). The fourth season premiere, “The Six Thatchers,” is the first time it’s managed to be boring. Even at its worst, Sherlock usually maintains a palpable sense…
Believe it or not, we’ve somehow made it to the end of December—and it’s time to take those last vacation days, wrap up all those last-minute presents, and head home to friends and family. It’s all going down today: For the first time in nearly 40 years, Christmas Eve and the first night of Hanukkah will…
Image via author. In March of last year, I wrote a blog about an upcoming Netflix series starring Drew Barrymore called Santa Clarita Diet and wrote, “The ‘romantic comedy series’ stars Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant as—does it even matter? No.” But that was then, and this is now. As I flipped over today’s tabloids…
Despite Oliver’s popularity, there are still a lot of people who don’t know who he is. John Oliver’s weekly HBO news show, Last Week Tonight, has been lauded — often using hyperbolic language — for its ability to unpack dense, sometimes esoteric political, judicial, and social topics and explain the stakes of said topic in relation…