Rex Sorgatz
creative technologist, writer, strategist, entrepreneur, designer, advisor, consultant, gadfly, dilettante. rexsorgatz@gmail.com
This week’s media diary, which includes everything watched or read this week, and with, as always, recommended items in bold:
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5
- POST: “Access Denied” | The Awl
- POST: “How She Wants to Modify Muslims” | NYRB
- POST: “Greil Marcus’s Critical Super Power” | New Yorker
- PODCAST: a16z, “Nootropics”
- PODCAST: Channel 33, “The Watch”
- TV: Nathan for You, “Nail Salon; Fun” (s3 e7) | COM
- TV: The Knick, “Williams and Walker” (s2 e7) | MAX
- TV: The Knick, “Not Well at All” (s2 e8) | MAX
- TV: Shark Tank (s7 e10) | ABC
- TV: Saturday Night Live, Ryan Gosling | NBC
- MOVIE: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4
- POST: “Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Change the World, Again. You Got a Problem with That?” | Fusion
- TV: Charlie Rose | PBS
- TV: With All Due Respect | BLOOM
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3
- PODCAST: Recode Decode, “Ricky Van Veen”
- POST: “How to Look at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative” | Medium
- POST: “Sex Machina” | Art Forum
- TV: Jeopardy (s31 e154) | ABC
- TV: Jeopardy (s31 e153) | ABC
- TV: Jeopardy (s31 e152) | ABC
- TV: The Daily Show | COM
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2
- POST: “Inside /pol/, the 4chan Politics Board Shouted Out in Minneapolis Gun Video” | New York
- POST: “Anonymous Satire of Silicon Valley Now Has a Publisher” | NYT
- PODCAST: Channel 33, “Movie Podcast”
- PODCAST: Vulture TV Podcast, “Netflix’s Big Year”
- TV: Charlie Rose, “Hillary Clinton” | PBS
- TV: With All Due Respect | BLOOM
- TV: Scream Queens, “Black Friday” (s1 e11) | FOX
- TV: The Tie that Binds | HBO
- TV: You’re the Worst, “Other Things You Could Be Doing” (s2 e12) | FXX
- TV: South Park, “Truth and Advertising” (s19 e9) | COM
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1
- POST: “LOL Is Literally Dead” | New York
- POST: “CEO Paying Everyone $70k Has Something to Hide” | Bloomberg
- PODCAST: Recode Decode, “B.J. Novak & Dev Flaherty”
- TV: Jessica Jones, “AKA Ladies Night” (s1 e1) | NTFLX
- TV: Breakthrough, “The Age of Aging” (s1 e4) | NAT GEO
- TV: VICE Special Report: Countdown to Zero | HBO
- TV: The Daily Show (s1 e30) | COM
- TV: America: Facts vs. Fiction, “D.C. Decoding” (s3 e9) | AHC
- MOVIE: Michael Clayton
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30
- POST: “Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks” | The Atlantic
- POST: “Lists” | AVC
- POST: “Is It Still Possible to Be a Public Intellectual?” | New York Times
- POST: “How GE-branded The Message Became the No. 1” | Nieman Lab
- POST: “TV, Mobile, and the Living Room” | Benedict Evans
- PODCAST: Startup, “Words About Words from Our Sponsors”
- PODCAST: a16z, “Comparing Private vs. Public Valuations”
- PODCAST: Odd Lots, “The Story Behind the Beanie Babies Bubble”
- PODCAST: Slate Money, “The Eternally Thankful Edition”
- PODCAST: Song Exploder, “Youth Lagoon”
- TV: Fargo, “Loplop” (s2 e8) | FX
- TV: With All Due Respect | BLOOM
- TV: Walking Dead, “Start to Finish” (s6 e8) | AMC
- TV: The Daily Show (s1 e29) | COM
- TV: Reliable Sources | CNN
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29
- MOVIE: Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs
- POST: “A Dream of Secular Utopia in ISIS’s Backyard” | NY Times
- TV: Minnesota Vikings vs. Atlanta Falcons | FOX
- TV: This Week | ABC
- TV: Meet the Press | NBC
- TV: 60 Minutes | CBS
- TV: Jeopardy (s32 e45) | ABC
- TV: Jeopardy (s32 e46) | ABC
- TV: Homeland, “The Litvinov Ruse” (s5 e9) | SHO
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