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My Favorite Things on the Internet This Week

December 31, 2023

Hello internet stranger,

The Weekly Click is a weekly (shocking, I know) updated list of interesting bits on the internet that I thought I’d share.

Happy clicking!

  1. Happy New Year! Vox put together a 420-second montage of almost everything that happened in the world this year.

  2. 10 Great Batman Christmas Stories That Are Surprisingly Full of Holiday Cheer. Better late than never.

  3. Here’s an interesting movie theory: It’s A Wonderful Life is a depressing tragedy, not a feel-good Christmas movie.

  4. Happiness journalist Gretchen Rubin's 24 for 24 is a fun way to rethink the usual New Year resolutions. I might have to put some thought into this idea.

  5. McSweeney’s does it again. The villain who plans to demolish the toy shop in a Hallmark Christmas movie sets the record straight.

  6. The Final Ranking of DC Extended Universe Films. There’s a couple in there that I still haven’t seen.

  7. RELATED: A requiem for Aquaman and the last gasp of the Snyderverse

  8. 20 Trends That Will Define the Lives of American Men in 2024

  9. Here are some of Vulture writers’ favorite comedy moments of 2023.

  10. 52 Interesting Things Jason Kottke Learned in 2023. I had no idea about most of these.

  11. RELATED: Jason Kottke lists The Best Movie Posters of 2023

  12. 50 Wonderful Pop Culture Things in 2023.

  13. Will Leitch on The 10 Biggest Sports Stories of 2023

  14. They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like. Scathing.

  15. 81 Things That Blew Our Minds in 2023.

  16. Readers weigh in on their 10 favorite Longreads picks of 2023.

  17. Ben Werdmuller: Leaving the Nazi Bar

  18. Alance AB's Maze Generator is exactly what you think it is. Choose several different shapes of maze, set the desired size, click and “a-maze” yourself.

  19. Chris McLeod, Blogging is where it's at, again.

  20. 10 Essential Pro-Wrestling Movies.

  21. Carl Barenbrug wrote a lovely post listing 20 things he learned this year. I’m not going to write a list myself, but you should definitely go read his.

  22. Tom Smothers, half of the popular Vietnam War-era comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, died in his home following a recent battle with cancer.

  23. The Best Movies to Watch on New Year’s Eve.

  24. Taylor Swift is conservatism’s greatest foe. It’s funny cause it’s true.

  25. After the Atlantic's expose, Substack Has a Nazi Problem, several hundred authors signed an open letter Substackers against Nazis. In response, co-founder Hamish McKenzie says that Substack is okay with hosting supremacist content (as well as transphobic and anti-vax authors) and that they will continue to profit from it. I don’t want to go somewhere else to host this newsletter. Should I? What’s your opinion?

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Be seeing you.