I’ll say it: 2021 was a damn good year for movies. Last year, I only saw three movies in theaters, with my last one being on Valentine’s Day (for anyone who doesn’t know, that’s on Special Shoshy Shosh Brodman’s birthday). On March 19th of this year, I received the first…

As I mentioned in my Podcast Write-Up, my primary auditory stimulation this year definitely came in the form of people from Brooklyn discussing pop culture over Zoom calls. There have been years where music really formed the soundtrack to my life, like in 2019, when my Write-Up took the form…

TikTok rocks. That’s not a statement I would have said last year. Hell, I wouldn’t have even said that 6 months ago. But things change. Sometimes, you start dating a 24-year-old and you realize the truth. The truth that TikTok rocks. Criticized at first (including by Ya Boi) as being…

I’ll start by addressing the elephant in the room: these are not books published in 2021. In fact, only one of them was published in 2021. If you’re looking for a list of the best books published in 2021, you’re sadly in the wrong place. These Best Of lists are…

2021 will go down in history as the year we all collectively emerged from our caves, squinting as the warmth of the sun hit our faces for the first time in months. (That is, until the last few weeks when we realized the saber-tooth tiger was simply hiding behind a…

I can’t say I fell more in love with podcasts this year. There wasn’t some new world my eyes were opened up to, some fantastical realm of podcasting that I discovered and made it all a whole new experience. …

In March of 2020, the world was thrown into turmoil. After a few months of inaction from world governments, by March 11th the WHO had officially declared the coronavirus a pandemic. Broadway shut down, people stayed inside, Tom Hanks got sick. …

Here you’ll find the results for each set of matchups in the Tournament. At the top of the page is the most recent update of the bracket, followed by the most recent scores and write-ups. All earlier Scores and write-ups will be below the line break. Latest Results — 4/11 In the narrowest matchup…