Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Imagine if Peter Parker had never become Spider-Man. Instead, he kept getting bullied, yet still had the compulsion to dress in spandex. And he started a band. He would probably sound a lot like Ninja Sex Party. The comedy songwriting pair of Daniel Avidan and Brian Wecht have created the quintessential Internet Band: Their music, first…
If you’re planning on getting buried in Colma, you might want to do something about it — soon. That’s because an all-new Bay Area housing crisis is just around the corner. There are 1.5 million dead people in Colma already — and room for thousands more. But no one knows exactly how many thousands. “We’re…
It took six men to haul you onto the trolley this morning. You have, obviously, seen better days. This fact escapes no one as the tram pulls away from Steuart and Market streets and begins to pick up speed. You have a long ride ahead of you, but it’ll be over sooner than you think….
I spent my entire 29th year in what I can only describe as a waking fever dream. This was 2010: the year before I began injecting testosterone, the year I picked my new name, my last year in San Francisco, the end of a life (mine) and an era (all of ours) — in more…
President Donald Trump confirmed on Saturday that the United States will withdraw from a landmark nuclear arms treaty with Russia. “We’re going to terminate the agreement and we’re going to pull out,” Trump told reporters as he boarded Air Force One in Nevada. He was referring to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a historic 1986…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law. A series of decisions by the Obama administration loosened the legal concept…
Death and taxes may be inevitable, but the business of death is changing.Funeral homes that have been around for decades have been closing around San Francisco as sons and daughters of owners pursue other careers. Morticians are cashing out in the hot real estate market by selling their building sites for bigger housing developments. Duggan’s…
From left, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, Melania Trump and President Trump during the opening of an anti-extremist center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in May 2017.CreditCreditSaudi Press Agency Handout/European Pressphoto Agency WASHINGTON — I was having dinner here once with a Saudi muck-a-muck. Midway through the interview, he passed…
I regret to inform you that the national mainstream media is at it again: willingly giving a platform to white nationalists. On this morning’s TODAY show, NBC’s Peter Alexander interviewed the head of Identity Evropa, a racist group that describes itself as “identitarian” because it promotes white European “identity,” according to the Southern Poverty Law…
A new complaint to a lawsuit against Facebook claims the social network significantly inflated a video metric that measured time spent. Publishers are furious about the lawsuit and are blaming the miscalculated metric for forcing the industry to shift from text to video. Between February and July 2016, seven major publishers like Mic and Fox…