Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Whatever happened to television’s most famous couples? Ross and Rachel. Carrie and Big. Cory and Topanga. Whether you love them or love to hate them, you can’t deny the enormous place so many of television’s fictional couples occupy in pop culture. And if you’ve ever come within 20 feet of a water cooler, chances are…
Twitter’s Brainstorming Notes for Potential New Features. Should we increase the character limit of tweets to 142 characters? No. Increase the character limit of tweets to 145 characters? No. No one wants this. No Twitter user in the history of our platform has ever encountered the problem of trying to cut down a tweet that…
14 Obvious ‘Truths’ Missing From Recent News Stories (1/8) Finding truth in the news is like finding a Hershey bar in a pile of shit: You got to the good stuff, but you don’t really feel like it was worth it. Fortunately for you, our readers have stepped up to the challenge of taking recent…
Introducing Knife: The Start-Up That’s a Knife. Hello, “Yo, Games” staff! Thank you for meeting me in the alleyway behind Carl’s Jr. Does anyone need water? Chips? A baggie of oregano I intend to sell to pre-teens? Yes, it’s me. Some of you might recognize me as the Yo, Games! intern let go for his…
SALISBURY, MD—Repeating identical comments he had made in June, July, August, September, and twice in November, increasingly nervous local man Aaron Howe responded to Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. Monday by once again stating this would be the end of the Republican frontrunner’s campaign, sources confirmed. “Well, that’s it—you just…
If you’re keeping score at home about whether or not a “War on Christmas” is going on in this country, it looks like you can add another tally to the “Yes” side: Historically black churches in the South keep getting burned down. Yep, this one’s pretty much an open-and-shut case. Sure, it’s easy to write…
This year, I’m spending Thanksgiving in Kuwait. The House of Sabah requested my presence for advice on Syria, Turkey, and the logistics of a “Marquis De Sade”-themed dinner event. However, I’ve had my fair share of Turkey Days. Since my column in Cafe usually concerns the hard and cold business of war, I thought I’d…
Dreading Thanksgiving dinner conversation? The Post’s Alexandra Petri has three foolproof strategies to get you through your family gathering. (Tom LeGro/The Washington Post) They have clustered around the table. The bird is slain and it lies before you, browned in its own suppurations. You behold it, cold sweat trickling down your face. These next hours…
The average Millennial gets up the crack of noon in their parents’ house and spends an hour looking through thousands of shoddy t-shirts printed with The Smiths and Joy Division to attempt to look good for selfie number one. Fumbling through thousands of cat memes they contemplate: which video game shall I play until 3am…
Getty Advertisement – Continue Reading Below You may have sensed a certain gullibility in the air last night, a potent strain with pungent notes of paranoia and confusion. (And just a touch of embarrassment in the finish.) That’s because it’s fake Facebook legal status season again. Has it really been a year? This time…