Years in Review

The Best Stuff I Read Or Saw Or Heard All Year, 2021 Edition

Articles

  1. Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials From UFO Crashes (VICE)
  2. Eddie Kingston Got No Business F***ing Being Here (The Players’ Tribune)
  3. Norm Macdonald’s Comedy Was Quite Christian (NYT)
  4. Mexico’s lucha libre wrestlers take fight against COVID to vast market (Reuters)
  5. How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously (New Yorker)
  6. An Interview With the Guy Who Yells “Mortal Kombat” in the Theme for Mortal Kombat (Slate)
  7. Covid vaccine holdouts are caving to mandates — then scrambling to ‘undo’ their shots (NBC)
  8. Midwest Modern thread on the late Detroit architect Nathan Johnson (Twitter)
  9. Chill Out About Masks (Defector)
  10. He said he was going to watch cartoons. Instead, he opened his dad’s gun safe. (Washington Post)

Movies

  1. Judas and the Black Messiah
  2. Annette
  3. King Richard
  4. Cryptozoo
  5. Passing
  6. I Care A Lot
  7. Don’t Look Up
  8. Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar
  9. Ron’s Gone Wrong
  10. Boogie

TV Shows

  1. Snowfall (Season 4)
  2. Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 11)
  3. Exterminate all the Brutes
  4. Ted Lasso (Season 2)
  5. I Think You Should Leave (Season 2)
  6. WandaVision
  7. Loki
  8. Girls5eva (Season 1)
  9. Swagger (Season 1)
  10. Saturday Morning All Star Hits! (Season 1)

Podcasts I Enjoyed

  1. WTF with Marc Maron
  2. Astonishing Legends
  3. Revolutions
  4. Grilling with JR
  5. Don Muraco’s Magnificent Podcast
  6. Slate’s Political Gabfest
  7. Pop Culture Happy Hour
  8. The History of China
  9. ARN
  10. The Draymond Green Show