Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Let’s the comments begin! Some will dig it, some will not, if the last posts I did about this are any indication. My thoughts: The CGI and ships look good The Starfleet uniforms are hideous. They tightened up the editing in post-production, which I figured they would, versus what we’ve seen to date Great Trek…
Starting Tuesday, you can buy an HBO subscription without having to pay for cable. The premium cable channel’s HBO NOW service started to welcome subscribers on Tuesday, a few days ahead of the channel’s biggest premiere of the year, the new season of “Game of Thrones.” “We’re making HBO available in as many ways as…
(All men must die) An illustrated guide to all 456 deaths in “Game of Thrones” By Shelly Tan and Alberto Cuadra, Published: April 6, 2015 WARNING: Spoilers abound. Ned Stark, Joffrey Baratheon, Oberyn Martell — the list of “Game of Thrones” characters goes on and on. But the 456 characters below all have one thing…
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The Great American News Anchor is no different from the Great and Powerful Oz.<br /><br /> How is it possible that the inane institution of the anchorman has endured for more than 60 years? Some two months into Brian Williams’s six-month banishment from NBC for making stuff up, it’s not known whether he will ever…
Netflix UPDATE: Series creator David Lynch has taken to Twitter to confirm his exit from Showtime’s revival of “Twin Peaks.” Here are his tweets in full, which mirror the statement from David Lynch’s office obtained by a fan-run Facebook page. Dear Twitter Friends, Showtime did not pull the plug on Twin Peaks. — David…
SHARING BUTTONS CONTENT OF THE POST GhostofAlyeska says he was “simply curious who Fox News’ science reporters are. I wanted to know what kind of scientific backgrounds they might have.” Here’s what he found: NPR’s science correspondents include: Shankar Vedantam, who has been honored by the American Public Health Association, is the author of The…
Thirty-one-year-old comic Trevor Noah was hired to replace Jon Stewart yesterday, and the backlash has already arrived with a vengeance. Noah has a large following in his native South Africa, and has toured extensively abroad, but he isn’t so well-known in the U.S. — to date, he has three “Daily Show” “correspondent” appearances under his…
Ever since Jon Stewart announced that he would be leaving The Daily Show after 16 long years behind the desk, the question has been who, on earth, could take his place? Fans thought they had an answer earlier today when longtime Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee tweeted this intriguing statement: The day is exciting, but…
On Monday, Comedy Central announced that the new host of “The Daily Show,” who will replace Jon Stewart when he leaves sometime within the next year, is a thirty-one-year-old comedian from South Africa named Trevor Noah. For most Americans, and even many regular viewers of “The Daily Show,” the name was unfamiliar. Noah made his first…