We Love the Internet 2019/44: The Mavening of sportswriting edition

Simon Kendrick
Nov 1 · 2 min read

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

· The Mavening of Sportswriting

· On Chandler Bing’s Job

· Are Memes Ruining Television?

· ‘The West Wing’ vs. ‘Freaks and Geeks’: TV at a Crossroad in 1999

Reference points:

· When Will Netflix Finally End Its Cash Burn?

· The 50 most beautiful places in the world

· The Comedians You Should and Will Know in 2019

Longer reads:

· Superfans: A Love Story

· Who Would Tavi Gevinson Be Without Instagram?

· The Four Horsemen of the Restaurant Apocalypse?

· How Fan Culture Is Swallowing Democracy

· Studio Chief Summit: All 7 Top Film Executives, One Room, Nothing Off-Limits

· The Mainstream Media Is Not Playing Games

· How Turkish TV is taking over the world

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

· “Marvel” Homecoming Assembly Dance

· Old Crime Meets New Crime

· Twin Peaks ACTUALLY EXPLAINED (No, Really)

· Skinny home in Toronto as prototype for parking-space homes?

· Souped-Up Truck Tries And Fails To Climb A Small Incline — Much To The Delight Of The Guy Filming

· I COOKED a Brisket for a MONTH and this happened!

· Why’d They Kill Tyrone? Unpacking Blackness in Horror Films

· Guy Tries To Overcome His Fear Of Heights By Skydiving, Faints Three Times

Things to look at/read:

· The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving

· Why Are Rich People So Mean?

· Every Year Adults In Japan Dress Up In Incredibly Relatable Costumes For The Jimi Halloween Event

· Space: a major legal void

· Downloading Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Was An Absolute Nightmare

· Someone left old TVs outside 50 homes in Virginia while wearing a TV on his head. No one knows why.

· A new Swedish bicycle is made from 300 recycled Nespresso pods

Animal corner:

· Maru & Hana pass it

· This song can easily make it to the top 10

· Best thing you’ll see today

· parrot encounters an illegal rave, brazil

· When your favourite song comes on in the club

· Dear Professor Bloggs

Tweets of the week:

· My sister is a fool 😂 she killed this though

· If anyone wants to know how my weekend went I totaled my car while dressed up as Carrie and everyone who was a first responder thought I was dead HAHAHAHA IM SO SORRY

· if you’re feeling stressed, just remember to IN EX HAHA LE LE

· Callum Paterson’s face says it all

· October 26 is now Dave Benson Phillips Day

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

· Behind the Scenes in Putin’s Court: The Private Habits of a Latter-Day Dictator

· A Paranoid Tech Bro, a Homemade Nuclear Bunker, and a Shocking Death

· The Distinctly American Ethos of the Grifter

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Simon Kendrick
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