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  • Is this the best drone video you've ever seen? One Hollywood veteran said it “adds to the language and vocabulary of cinema.”
  • It's a very important anniversary today...that's right, it's the four year anniversary of BBC Dad.
  • The Broadway usher who tested positive for COVID a year ago reflects on his unique place in history: “Now, for the rest of my life, I am Broadway’s patient zero. It’s something that will never go away,” he said. “I was grateful to be alive, but it was so embarrassing. It was so much shame. It was almost like standing in front of people naked.”
  • ESPN has a visual feature tracking the timeline of March 11th, 2020, the day the pandemic shut down the NBA, presaging all the other shutdowns to come.
  • The NY Times has a fantastic feature in which they talked to 75 artists about what they did during the pandemic.
  • One of the most senior Cabinet officials in the Trump administration, Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller, told VICE that the speech Trump made on the morning of January 6th directly inspired the riot at the Capitol: “Would anybody have marched on the Capitol, and tried to overrun the Capitol, without the president’s speech? I think it’s pretty much definitive that wouldn’t have happened.”
  • Did you read about the implosion of Bon Appétit and think, gee, that would make a great HBO Max comedy? Then you're in luck.
  • Relatedly, the Times looks at the implosion over at Reply All, which happened after they launched a podcast about...you guessed it...Bon Appétit.
  • Taffy Brodesser-Akner's novel Fleishman Is in Trouble is being turned into an FX limited series.
  • The Masked Singer's latest reveal is chaos energy personified.
  • And finally, she is very pretty and she knows it: