We Love the Internet 2023/22: The ‘Last good website’ edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• ‘The last good website’
• Prestige TV Has Taken a Page Out of Sportswriting’s Media Playbook
• The Man Reimagining Disney Classics for Today’s World
• How Will ‘Succession’ Be Remembered?
• Studio Ghibli to Release Hayao Miyazaki’s Final Film ‘How Do You Live?’ With No Trailer, No Promotional Marketing

Reference points:

• Arcade Authorship — High Score Table Credits
• Best illusion of the year contest 2023

Longer reads:

• Lost Illusions: The Untold Story of the Hit Show’s Poisonous Culture

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Lisa: Steve Jobs’ sabotage and Apple’s secret burial
• Careless Whisper’s lick on 100 instruments (but without saxophone)

Things to look at/read:

• How Taylor Swift’s Eras tour took over America
• Their high school canceled an LGBTQ play. These teens put it on anyway.

Animal corner:

• His two brain cells almost exploded

Tweets of the week:

• size of his arms
• for some context, a massive shout out to the woman who FaceTimed her dog throughout the performance of Born To Run last night. An icon.
• greatest 45 seconds in cinematic history
• Rory Delap winding one up for a throw in circa 2009…
• i turt myshellf today
• LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOO
• Ho-de-ho!

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Return of Ryan Gosling
• In the American West, a Clown Motel and a Cemetery Tell a Story of Kitsch and Carnage

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