I’m a big fan of clean, simple, usually single-page websites. I have one myself at seanmcdevitt.com, but I’ve also found a new site called Dead Simple Sites that has been cataloging these types of web pages. If you like that sort of thing, here you go.

I had no idea they were still making Behind the Music episodes. The Wolfgang Van Halen one is a journey through a relationship between a father and a son. They just happened to be Wolfgang and Edward Van Halen.

It’s a must-see.

I’m late to the party, but this Netflix show is amazing. I’m not very far into it, but _Blue Eye Samurai_ is worth the time. Beautiful animation, a strong voice cast, and a well-executed story. Here’s the trailer from November so you can draw your own conclusions if it’s right for you.

One of my favorite nostalgia trips has been the last few seasons of _Cobra Kai_. It’s a great extension of that universe and has been a lot of fun. Season six will release its episodes in what Netflix is calling “a three-part event.” The first trailer provides a few teases.

Looking forward to this.

In this hilarious video, international bestselling author Fredrik Backman takes the stage at the Simon & Schuster centennial celebration, humorously admitting that he’s only there because his agent insisted it would be good for his career. It just keeps going from there. I laughed several times.

Joey Wagner has a great piece about University of Illinois Women’s Basketball player, Jada Peebles. The five-year student-athlete has a story to tell and Wagner hits it out of the park.

Love this. Simon Dillon’s review perfectly captures why you should never start your Star Wars viewing experience with The Phantom Menace. Perfect tone.

This piece by Ben Ulansey is an excellent look back at science fiction technology shown in movies and television and how some of it is coming true. It also specifically looks at _Ex Machina_ on its ten-year anniversary. Truly chilling today.

The Onion has been rescued from an agonizing death by private equity (see Sears, RadioShack, Deadspin, etc.) via an acquisition by people who actually care about the product and the people. Good name for that company, too.

In the middle of Taylor Tomlinson’s _After Midnight_ panel show, Drew Carey reminded the audience that he built his career on raunchy material. He didn’t let up calling his attendance at a Phish show at the Sphere a spiritual experience that he compared with explicit sexual terms. Tomlinson is stunned into silence.

_Deadpool and Wolverine’s_ new trailer is filled with mutant mayhem. There are so many Easter eggs. Screencrush has found them all—they usually do.

My favorite is the Liefeld joke.

Have a week, Connor Milton! On Monday, he was named the Big Ten Player of the Week, and on Thursday, he was named the Scholar-Athlete of the Week.

Well deserving.

For All Mankind has been renewed for a fifth season, and the show is getting an Apple TV+ spin-off called Star City. The new show will follow the same alt-timeline but from the Soviet perspective. The first two seasons of _FAM_ are fantastic, but the last two have not been as great.

Here’s hoping for a better S5.

I don’t usually listen to miniseries podcasts, but this one caught my eye and then I just binged it. I’m a big fan of Dave Holmes, and this story about the rise and fall of MTV is fantastic. By the time this goes out, the last episode will be dropping. You can listen on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

I went down a rabbit hole of videos from The Midnight Special, the original late-night concert show. If you love 70s rock and roll, catch performances by Fleetwood Mac, Journey, KISS, Cheap Trick, The Cars, REO Speedwagon, and Humble Pie. There’s so much more.

Mandy Brown’s A unified theory of fucks is required reading, especially the paragraph around working: “Why love your work? It won’t, of course, love you back.” Perfect.