Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
This is Yuka Kinoshita. And today, we are going watch her eat so much fucking food. In Japanese, Kinoshita is called a “gluttonous beautiful woman” (大食い美女 or “oogui bijyo). Her YouTube channel is popular, and features videos of her doing things like eating one hundred Chicken McNuggets: Which is a snap for her. For her,…
Ellie Evangelista loves dressing up as her favorite superhero, Spider-Man. View Full Caption Courtesy of Margaret Ryan HUDSON HEIGHTS — She’s just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Like many 4-year-olds, Hudson Heights resident Ellie Evangelista loves to dress up like her favorite superhero and act out scenes of Spider-Man’s death-defying bravery. Then some boys…
SACRAMENTO — California would increase the minimum smoking age to 21 years old under a bill approved by the state Senate on Tuesday. Raising the age to purchase cigarettes from 18 to 21 would go a long way in helping discourage youth from smoking, said Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina (Los Angeles County), who authored…
It was 10 o’clock on a Friday night in spring 2014 and I was sitting on the sofa in my one-bed Paris apartment when I received a message from a French terrorist based in Syria: “Salaam alaikum, sister. I see you watched my video. It’s gone viral – crazy! Are you Muslim? What do you…
(Charles McQuillan/Getty Images) In Sunday’s New York Times, Wednesday Martin claims to blow the lid off a certain set of fashionable, hedge-fund dependent Upper East Side wives with children. It’s a group with whom she spent six years socializing at the playground and in other casual settings—an experience Martin, who holds a BA in anthropology,…
Photo Going to school on the Upper East Side. Credit Erin Baiano for The New York Times A few weeks ago, a woman named Wednesday Martin, a hobby anthropologist whose graduate degree is in comparative literature, published an op-ed article in The New York Times outlining some of the observations she makes in her forthcoming…
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Earlier this month, a squirrel in the Bronx bit an MTA worker’s finger, sending her to the hospital. Now, it appears squirrels have developed a taste for salty, delectable people flesh—a second MTA worker has been attacked by a squirrel, this time in the train car of a Coney Island-bound Q train. It’s unclear whether…
NOT long after Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, said he would pay $250m of his own money for the chronically loss-making Washington Post, in August 2013, he sat next to the newspaper’s editorial-page editor, Fred Hiatt, at a dinner. It was a perfect opportunity to influence the Post’s line, but Mr Bezos reportedly preferred…
Imagine two of the worst New York real estate nightmares consolidated into one: Such is apparently the case for Ari Teman, the man whose Chelsea apartment made headlines last year after his Airbnb guests turned his sublet into a “XXX Freak Fest orgy.” Thanks to all that drama, Teman now says he’s found himself on the city’s infamous…