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The Search For The Saddest Punt In The World
National treasure and sports trivia troubadour Jon Bois is back with a new Chart Party, in which he examines nearly two decades of punts to determine which punt is the saddest of all. (SLYT)
The Umbrella Academy: Season One
Based on the comic book by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, a dysfunctional family of superheroes reunites after the death of their adoptive father, days before the end of the world. Shenanigans ensue.
One Day at a Time: (2019) (Season 3)
So while you're here, enjoy the view, keep on doing what you do!
#ThrowbackThursday with Weezer
Weezer: The Teal Album (2019) is a collection of song covers the band released today [YouTube Music playlist, no subscription required] in response to the positive reception of their recording of Toto's Africa and also as a lead up to their upcoming The Black Album. Tracklisti: Africa [video], Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This), Take On Me, Happy Together, Paranoid, Mr. Blue Sky, No Scrubs [Chilli approves], Billie Jean, Stand By Me
Movie: The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
It's been five years since everything was awesome, and the citizens of Bricksburg are facing a huge new threat: Lego Duplo invaders from the Systar system, who have turned their city into Apocalypseburg by wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.
Of Course The Sports Channel Would Be "The Slapshot"
On Twitter, one inventive Canadian amused and mortified his girlfriend whenever they passed a gas station - by using the gas price as a launching point to create an ad hoc promo for a fictional radio station. (SLTwitter)
149: IROC-Z FOMO
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME PODCAAAAAAAST because this is an episode of one. It's me and Jessamyn and a whole passel of Januarial content from MeFi, along with some youthful car stories and our belated discovery of the Spanish word for sock. Runs about 90 minutes.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: A Tale of Two Bandits
When a car thief seemingly copies the MO of the now-retired (and possibly deceased?) Pontiac Bandit Doug Judy, it's up to Jake and Terry to crack the case. Meanwhile, the rest of the Nine-Nine submit to a drinking contest to defend Shaw's Bar from an attempted FDNY takeover. Guest starring Nicole Byer and Rob Riggle!
Russian Doll: Season 1 Complete
A 36 year old chain smoking computer programmer's birthday repeatedly ends in her death, only to find her waking up, back at the birthday party, as if nothing had happened.
Life Without The Tech Giants
Gizmodo Reporter Kashmir Hill cut 'The Big Five' out of her life for a week at a time, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple. Week six - blocking all five. Her tech expert
Dhruv Mehrotra finishes with guide to cutting them out of your life.
Er war ein Rockidol
Today we are pleased to have the exclusive premiere of Front Line Assembly's re-work of the storied "Rock Me Amadeus" originally by Falco.
Shapely AI
Japanese developer rarapima has a couple of nifty demos. The first transforms the line you draw into a 3-D wireframe. The second is more interesting, and shows how scarily accurate AI has become: draw something and the page’s AI will try to correct it for you based on what it predicts you drew. If it’s wrong, shake the screen. [Maybe NSFW]
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Four Movements
Gina plays a high-stakes game of chess with Captain Holt. Rosa and Amy take Gina out for a fancy brunch. Jake and Gina must use their wits to infiltrate a posh club.
Sex Education: Season 1
A teenage boy with a sex therapist mother teams up with a high school classmate to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
Podcast: Everything is Alive: Chioke, Grain of Sand
Chioke is a grain of sand. He's not as small as he looks.
Podcast: Everything is Alive: Annie, Jack o' Lantern
Annie is a jack o' lantern, but she doesn't want to scare you.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: The Tattler
Jake and Gina attend their 20th high school reunion. Back at the Nine-Nine, Charles helps Rosa with her love life. Also: crinkling noises.
The Magicians: A Flock of Lost Birds
Brian takes a friend out for ice cream, while Sam is one week away from retirement.
The Good Place: Pandemonium
Various events occur in a specific order.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: I Need Some Balance
Rebecca decides that she needs to find a way to take her mind off her ex-boyfriends.
Subplots: Darrell returns to the office and it is different. Greg and Nathaniel unexpectedly become friends.
CATS!
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: I Can Work With You
Rebecca agrees to help out Darryl by offering to babysit and an unexpected guest crashes the evening. Meanwhile, Paula throws a game night.
Memorial for rtha
rtha's memorial service will be held on Sunday January 20th, in the San Francisco Women's Building Auditorium, from 4-6 pm. After we will adjourn to Southpaw bar around the corner. Mefites are very welcome to attend -- I'd love to see you there.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Honeymoon
The Nine-Nine is back, now on Thursdays on NBC! (Spoiler inside!)
The Good Place: Chidi Sees the Time-Knife
The gang meets the judge at the crossroads of all dimensions, time and space to plead their case and Janet makes a reconnection.
Podcast: Everything is Alive: Maeve, Lamppost
Maeve is a lamppost. She sees all of us, but does anybody see her?
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Hitchcock & Scully
Jake and Charles investigate a case of Hitchcock and Scully's from the 1980s; meanwhile, Amy's uniformed officers and Terry's detectives fight over limited resources.
"Semenly" Harmless Back Pain
In a new case study, Irish doctors report the baffling case of a 33-year-old man who injected his own semen intravenously for a year and a half, a self-developed “cure” intended to treat his chronic back pain. It does not appear to have worked.
Movie: John Wick: Chapter 2
Just when Keanu Reeves thinks he is back out, after having been pulled back in, after being out of the game, he is pulled back again to the world of sumo assassins, hobos, mute bodyguards, very significant coins, Common, hotels, rockabilly girl murder switchboards, and endless parade of goons with heads woefully lacking bullets. A sequel to John Wick.
Movie: Keanu
Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen kitten by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.
Movie: John Wick
An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Fleabag: Full season discussion
A London-based woman tries to cope with life in a big city while coming to terms with a tragedy.
The Good Place: The Book of Dougs
Michael's resolve is put to the test. Meanwhile, Jason wrestles with his feelings and Chidi surprises Eleanor.
Future Man: Replay One
Josh wakes up... or does he? after saving the world... or did he? in the future... or is it? You know what, who knows what the hell's going on anymore. But Future Man is back, and things are as grimy as ever.
Bob's Burgers: Lorenzo's Oil? No, Linda's
Linda's new friend introduces her to essential oils and Gayle is convinced she must be rescued. Meanwhile, Bob and Teddy helps Mr. Huggins get a new bed.
Movie: The Favourite
In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah governs the country in her stead. When a new servant Abigail arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah.
DRUNK CLOWN AT THE WEDDING
There's lots of ugliness in the world right now, so I think it's important to share these photos of what happened when my friend Marvin called me & said: "I'm getting married & we can only invite 100 people. You didn't make the cut. But you can come if you come as a drunk clown." Twitter | Threadreader
Letterkenny: Season One
Streaming on CraveTV (Canadian on demand video service), Letterkenny is a small show about a small town in rural Ontario (here is a taste). It is based on a web series Letterkenny Problems, available on YouTube.
An Oral History Of The Warren Ellis Forum
An Oral History Of The Warren Ellis Forum
-- Kieron Gillen: It was like the CBGB of noughties comics.
Matt Fraction: It was a very micro-focused tribe in a lot of ways.
Kelly Sue DeConnick: Micro-focused tribe is the most Warren Ellis thing you've ever said.
Chip Zdarsky: Warren has changed so many lives just by the act of maintaining that forum for us.
Heidi McDonald: Warren was essentially inventing how people build their brands online.
Christopher Sebela: It was just like—the internet could be good sometimes.
Bryan Lee O'Malley: He's a visionary, and he brought people together basically to complain about stuff, but also, so that they could talk about the future and have a future.
The varsity team
Dogsled racer Blair Braverman introduces the world to her next Iditarod team.
Braverman, the "21st century feminist reincarnation of Jack London," gives elaborate details on each pup!
Threadreader version
Movie: Bird Box
A woman and a pair of children are blindfolded and make their way through a post-apocalyptic setting along a river.
Movie: Highlander
There can only be one.
Travelers: Trevor
Suffering from a fatal brain disorder, Trevor makes the choice to allow himself to be overwritten as the team races to invent an experimental cure.
Movie: Ralph Breaks the Internet
Six years after the events of "Wreck-It Ralph", Ralph and Vanellope, now friends, discover a wi-fi router in their arcade, leading them into a new adventure.
When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis
A new short science fiction story from Annalee Newitz in Slate.
Each month in 2018, Future Tense Fiction—a series of short stories from Future Tense and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives—will publish a story on a theme. The theme for October–December 2018: Work.