Midweek longreads

Work's been amazingly busy, so content's scarce (much as I'd love to be writing about horror flicks right now). So have some reads:

1. Buzzfeed notes that Hollywood has a pervasive blackface problem when working with stuntpeople.

2. Wired reports on the folks whose job it is to keep track of and block porn from unexpectedly hitting your social media feed. This sounds like an often-awful job to be in.

3. At The Oxford American, Sarah Menkedick writes about Spanglish and how how language shifts in their household affected her relationship. I'm a sucker for quotes like, "Our marriage started to look like a seventeenth-century arrangement, whereby I had died and Jorge had married my English-speaking sister."

4. Ay BKLYNR, Neima Johromi writes about Stephen Powers, the artist behind a lot of notable piece of public art in Brooklyn.

5. And this piece from Sports Illustrated from a few years ago is a great look at just how corrupt the sports agent business is.

And one bonus shorter read from The New Republic: The sheer clickbaity bullshit behind all those awful "humor" news sites.

Midweek longreads

Work's been amazingly busy, so content's scarce (much as I'd love to be writing about horror flicks right now). So have some reads:

1. Buzzfeed notes that Hollywood has a pervasive blackface problem when working with stuntpeople.

2. Wired reports on the folks whose job it is to keep track of and block porn from unexpectedly hitting your social media feed. This sounds like an often-awful job to be in.

3. At The Oxford American, Sarah Menkedick writes about Spanglish and how how language shifts in their household affected her relationship. I'm a sucker for quotes like, "Our marriage started to look like a seventeenth-century arrangement, whereby I had died and Jorge had married my English-speaking sister."

4. Ay BKLYNR, Neima Johromi writes about Stephen Powers, the artist behind a lot of notable piece of public art in Brooklyn.

5. And this piece from Sports Illustrated from a few years ago is a great look at just how corrupt the sports agent business is.

And one bonus shorter read from The New Republic: The sheer clickbaity bullshit behind all those awful "humor" news sites.