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My Favorite Things on the Internet This Week

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Sean McDevitt
April 14, 2024

The Weekly Click

Hello internet stranger,

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

Happy clicking!

Feds accuse Ohtani ex-interpreter of $16M theft

The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani stole $16 million over more than two years from Ohtani to pay off gambling debts…

The Best Photos and Videos of the 2024 Solar Eclipse

Well, the total solar eclipse was once again completely awesome.

Nobody's In UConn's League

Great teams don’t always produce great games. This is a lesson that the UConn Huskies taught in Monday’s 75-60 win over the Purdue Boilermakers, which secured UConn a second straight national title, claimed at a stroll.

Thankfully, O.J. Simpson Was One of a Kind

Only someone who straddled the fault lines of race, culture, and sports could have produced such a frenzied media spectacle.

It’s Not Who Plays The Next Bond, It’s How You Write Him

I went to a screening of Dev Patel’s Monkey Man a week ago and was summarily treated to two concise hours of Patel killing bad guys with extreme prejudice. Primo shit.

Linky Goodness

This is about as wrong as 15 seconds of basketball can go. Joker: Folie à Deux's first trailer sends in the clowns. No joke: Bill Murray’s Son Designed UConn’s Offense. Netflix released the trailer for Bridgerton Season 3. A Thousand Suns is an online “mind-bending sci-fi anthology series that explores visions of humanity’s past, present and future” premiering this April 16. Larry David’s Rule Book for How (Not) to Live in Society. America is overrun by vaguely realistic fake local news sites. Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Ramblin’ Rogers performed a swinging country western saloon cover of the “Cantina Song” by Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes. Prince - United States Of Division (Official Audio) is a funk jam with the New Power Generation. Dark Matter stars Joel Edgerton as a Chicago man who must travel across different dimensions and take on an invasive version of himself if he wants to reunite with his family. John Calipari Gets Out Ahead Of The Pitchforks And Torches. In Michigan, two parents are convicted over the deaths caused by their child in a mass shooting. Eclipse travelers spent an estimated $1.6 billion on lodging, activities, food, and gas. This “overexposed” photo of the total eclipse by Randy Olson is just all kinds of wonderful. 

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And the curtain falls. It’s going to be a busy week heading into next weekend. As the cliche goes, it’s always darkest before the dawn. Here comes the sun.

Be seeing you.