Journalist Paige Skinner kept a Google Doc highlighting one big event every day throughout 2021, and wow, did we forget a few things.
Looking over the doc — which we discovered via Digg — is surreal. Jan. 2? Bean dad. Jan. 6? “Coup attempt/Georgia blue,” a rare double shot. Well, at least until Jan. 10, which gets “SATC reboot/armie hammer cannibal.” (Note, those two aren’t related, but neither has been getting good press this year.)
You can read the list for yourself here. We kind of like the minimalist approach here; it serves as a counterbalance to Dave Pell’s day-by-day recounting of the very bad year of 2020 in his new (and recommended!) book Please Scream Inside Your Heart.
A few highlights and lowlights from the year, as copy-pasted exactly from Skinner’s diary:
- Jan. 19- trump’s last day/ cookie monster rock (the latter was this)
- Jan. 26- reddit makes gamestop stocks go up
- Jan. 27- gamestop stocks still
- Jan. 28- robinhood limited buying gamestop stocks
- Feb. 12- ted cruz weird haircut
- Feb. 18- AP reports ted cruz flew to cancun while texas freezes
- Feb. 24- where have all the lesbians gone? (probably a reference to this)
- March 24- cinnamon toast crunch shrimp guy bad ex bf/ doctor krispy kreme/ chrissy teigen leaves twitter
Honestly, that’s just a few things from the first three months of a year that, much like 2020, we don’t care to remember that much. But if you’re stuck at home and in the mood to remember when “israel tweets abt bella hadid” (that was May 16), have yourself a happy look back at a very, very weird year.
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