Being that it’s St. Patrick’s Day and all, it seems only fair that everyone should be allowed to get in on the drunken action, even the people who most frequently have to answer to the hypocritical moral scruples of the masses: celebrities. For your intoxicatingly trashy pleasure, then, we suggest you sip some of PopEater’s listicle of 12 Sloppy Drunk Celebrities, which inexplicably does not include this classic Anna Nicole Smith (RIP) moment.
(Thanks for the tip, Sarah!)
Today is St. Patrick’s Day, which means that most of us will be spending a small fortune (or at least more than on most normal days) on the following things: beer, green beer, whiskey, lap-dances from leprechauns, and all sorts of silly St. Patrick’s Day memorabilia that isn’t even remotely Irish we really don’t need. Here, for instance, are 15 Pointless St. Patrick’s Day Items you should definitely not waste you beer money on.
St. Patrick’s Day Fortune Cookies, because they’re Chinese-American, not Irish, and therefore don’t make any sense. More suspect St. Paddy’s merch.
Who has time to read books anymore, really? Increasingly, we take our literature on the run, either as a podcast or, ideally, in song form. Until we decide to give up list-writing and dedicate the rest of our lives to turning the complete works of John Milton into Afropunk anthems, we’ll be listening to songs like those featured in Neatorama’s listicle of 13 Examples of Literature in Song. We noticed, though, that it’s missing one of our favorite high school novels as rendered by one of our favorite high school rap groups: dead prez’s “Animal in Man,” based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
It turned into a bit of an animal-themed day here at Listicles, huh? Well, there are worse things for all the posts on one day to be about (guns, for instance), and we have orchestrated a beautiful symmetry (so much art to listicles!) by opening with tiny animals and concluding with giant ones. To send you off to sleep for vivid nightmares of humongous beasts, we recommend Cracked’s listicle of 7 Extinct Giant Versions of Animals, which is conspicuously missing the giant ground sloth, thought to have gone extinct some 10,000 years ago, and grew to be about 20 feet tall, like so.
Aside from porn stars, the largest population living on the Internet must be animals; animals of all shapes, sizes and religious persuasions. Some of them, on a fairly frequent but largely unpredictable basis, get swept up into that weird web micro-climate: the meme. The combination of Interweb funnies and animal cuteness makes for irresistible moments, which we invite you to indulge with us now. Here are Listicles’ Top 15 Internet Meme Animals.
“I’m An Anteater”
Miniature animals are a strange fusion of their actual wild animal cousins, pets and stuffed animals. In essence, they are the most tame, adorable and un-animalistic animals that exist, which makes them completely and utterly irresistible. You might not feel quite so charmed reading over Weird Worm’s listicle of 10 Weird Miniature Versions of Animals, but we’re pretty sure that this itty-bitty baby sloth is the quintessence of cute. (via Neatorama)
We find ourselves blogging about facial hair awful often here, but rarely are we able to drive home the importance of beards and mustaches so forcefully as illustrator and artist Inkspills & Bloodsprains in this epic visual listicle of the 20 Most Influential Beards Ever (there’s also a mustache version!) We wonder how Joaquin Phoenix feels about being left out. Or The Dude for that matter. (via Next Round)
Today is the International Day Against Police Brutality (except, notably, in the United States, where National Anti-Police Brutality Day on October 22 takes precedence) and though, happily, we have never been victims of police brutality, we know of a number of fictional characters who have been on the giving and receiving ends of such abuses of authority. So, without further a do, we present our by no means comprehensive (comments!) listicle of 10 Cases of Police Brutality in Movies.
L.A. Confidential (1997)
There are very few movies that are as good as or better than L.A. Confidential. Also, it is about cops who abuse their powers on a daily basis. That is all. More brutal cop movies after the jump.
We invent things all the time, like our morning drink of cofftea or the device we use on our morning commute, the iSkatepad. We also invented the listicle. Some of these inventions have more merit than others (the iSkatepad, for instance, doesn’t do well in the rain), but none are quite so ridiculous as those featured in LIFE’s historisticle of 30 Dumb Inventions. Though they’re quite good about unearthing obscure military technology, we’re surprised that LIFE left out these airplane-listening devices from WWI that look like giant mechanical trombones on wheels. (via FFFFOUND!)
Any pet of ours will have to build its own home from scratch. We will provide tools and maybe some help with drafting blueprints, but the rest will be left up to its more or less capable paws. This is not intended as some sort of animal cruelty; we have rather high hopes for animal architecture. We’re quite sure that what they come up with will be more appropriate and interesting than the ridiculous structures that we make for them, like The Coolist’s 10 Extravagant Dog Houses, or this sexy, curvy, green-roofed canine abode. (via Design You Trust)
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