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If you’ve peaked at the pop music sales charts lately, you’ll notice that since Michael Jackson died on Thursday his work has taken over. Among Jackson’s less obvious songs from the 80s climbing back into the spotlight, “Man in the Mirror” is an office favorite here at Listicles, no doubt owing in part to the [...]

Beloved Metropolis resident (and Kryptonian by birth) Superman (aka Clark Kent) turns 71 today, though he hasn’t aged a bit. In fact, befitting his “superness,” he actually looks younger now than he did then. The heroic character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first appeared in print on June 30, 1938, and since then [...]

Folks are pretty divided on Larry David’s turn as Woody in the latest Woody movie Whatever Works, and he certainly has some impressive precedents to contend with. Beyond Woody himself, numerous actors have played fairly obvious substitutes for the neurotic old cradle robber, and Future of Classics takes a stab at figuring out just who [...]

Some time ago we suggested you take a look at some totally trippy anti-drug public service annoucements that seemed perfectly tailored for high viewers’ enjoyment, but now we’re taking a turn for the seriously weird. BuzzFeed’s listicle of 10 Ridiculous PSAs About Crack features celebrity cameos (Bruce Willis, Clint Eastwood, Pee Wee Herman), super-80s music [...]

Today is Camera Day, an obscure and apparently random holiday that is exactly what it sounds like: a day to celebrate (and, presumably, use) a camera. Accordingly, we’re paying tribute to some of our favorite camera-wielders by focusing on the moments when they turned their instrument of choice upon themselves. Because everybody nowadays can make [...]

In these days of over-merchandised movie franchises whose dwindling box office returns have to be supplemented by copious schwag sales, it’s no surprise that licensing deals are producing some truly atrocious tie-in items. Witness, for instance, the absurd filmic footwear featured in StreetLevel’s listicle 10 Sneakers Inspired by Movies (helpfully divided into 5 good and [...]

Did you know that in Australia “fanny” means “vagina”? It’s true, and it means that whenever an American discusses their fanny or fanny pack within earshot of an Australian, the latter can’t help but laugh. Following that logic, we imagine our Australian readers will get a huge kick out of BuzzFeed’s listicle of 42 Awkward [...]

In about two weeks, President Barack Obama will toss out his first opening pitch since moving into the White House (as a Senator he once threw the opening pitch at a White Sox game). The pitch will kick off the MLB All-Star Game, which is happening in St. Louis this year. To get us psyched, [...]

Michael Jackson died yesterday, and while everybody is still reeling from the news and trying to process the odd mixture of sadness, confusion (anger?) and adoration that most have felt for the pop superstar and, lately, reclusive nut-job throughout their lives, list-form tributes abound. Rather than add one to the mix, we’ll add 10 suggestions [...]

Obviously, it’s very rewarding when a movie baddie gets his/her/its comeuppance in a really bad way. After all, if there a remotely good villain, we’ve just enduring at least an hour of their wacky antics, killing/pillaging/robbing/whatevering without sufficient retribution. Few bad guy deaths are as rewarding as melting, which blockbuster filmmakers seem to reserve for [...]

When/if we tie the metaphorical know with another person, animal or thing, we’ll likely forgo a traditional ceremony and just throw a big messy party. That said, if we keep one traditional wedding ritual, it’ll be the massive cake (because we love cake). And since we’ll presumably have to decorate the top of it somehow [...]

Being a good sidekick, as we noted yesterday with Robin’s Big Date, isn’t always the easiest task. You have to be prompt, reliable and yet sufficiently self-effacing and lacking in charisma to still allow the real star his or her time in the spotlight. Maxim, that great sidekick magazine, counts down The 10 Most Underrated [...]

Christmas is in exactly 6 months (which, incidentally, means that last Christmas was 6 months ago), and we hope Santa is taking advantage of these warm summer months to get in some sun. Looking back over his vacation albums (which, mysteriously, we have full access to), we’ve rounded up pictures of 15 Summering Santas.
Santa in [...]

In our cruel, never-ending quest to make our pets look like us, animal facial hair is an often necessary measure. In a fairly epic homage to that trend, Best Week Ever has assembled a listicle of 50 Animals With Fake Facial Hair, and though some are almost too fake and arbitrary to even count as [...]

Although YouTube abounds with heaps of evidence to support the argument that cheap video equipment is dumbing down the world, wasting energy and killing creativity, there are plenty of works that suggest the opposite. The advances in fan films, for instance, are proof that new, cheaper technology levels the playing field in a productive way. [...]

Though we’ve had conflicting reports, at least one source claims that today is UFO Day (others say July 8, the date of the original Roswell, New Mexico sighting, others say July 2 for no specific reason). At any rate, since everybody is so vague on the whole unidentified flying object thing (something we’ve noted before), [...]

It’s officially summer (and finally beginning to actually feel like it here in New York), and that means that it’s time to break out the mosquito repellent. And beyond the obvious unpleasantness of itchy bites, squashed bug corpses and that infuriating buzzing sound, there’s always malaria to worry about.
And you can thank Christopher Columbus (seen [...]

It says a lot about a movie when its most emotionally engaging moment is the death of an animal (for one it means that your human actors are truly awful). It could also mean that you’re watching an animated movie, whose moments of violence and death are all the more painful because you were just [...]

Today is National Pink Day, which might seem like a huge waste of a national holiday to you (and no, it has nothing to do with breast cancer), but let’s face it: we all need at least one day to get all the pent-up pinkaliciousness out of our systems. That said, even on pink day [...]

As kids, we were completely convinced we were destined to be head curator at the trampoline museum. After all, we were experts on several models, knew how best to add various optional features like sprinklers, soccer balls and small pets, and were well practiced at making death-defying exits. We weren’t even deterred upon discovering that [...]