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Only a couple days into the college basketball tourney, and we have already seen our share of bracket-busting upsets (like Georgetown losing to Ohio), much of which has involved some incredible buzzer-beating baskets that would surely merit mentioning in SDNN’s listicle of the Top 8 NCAA Basketball Tournament Buzzer-Beaters. Of this year’s already plentiful last-minute, [...]

On some fundamental, symbolic level, pop music and space travel are structurally similar: both are concerned with taking people to greater heights, faster and more smoothly than ever before. This slightly abstract analogy should become clear as you listen to the spacey tunes (including obvious entries from David Bowie and Elton John) on Underwire’s listicle [...]

This was originally intended to be a listicle of heads of state behaving or posing in a manner suggestive of bad-ass-ery, but as we went down our list of current and former heads of states, Vladimir Putin turned out to be his own self-sufficient epic action movie. That is why we revised our plan to [...]

Movie magic is often synonymous with movie deception, especially where filming locations and story settings are concerned. Like how Se7en is supposed to be set in New York and was actually filmed in L.A. with lots of fake rain–which, not surprisingly, works very well–but when they drive thirty minutes out of town for the finale [...]

We rarely take any pleasure in laughing at something quite so tragically pathetic as fast food restaurant customers and employees being victims or perpetrators of senseless violence, but we thought we might make an exception for this Ranker listicle of 13 Violent Meals at McDonald’s. As we expected, it turned out to be just as [...]

A long time ago we had our first experience in real life that was entirely predetermined by the social conventions of Facebook: someone we had friended online walked into a party we were attending, and without need for introductions or any real acknowledgment we launched right into a conversation about the various things we had [...]

Before Listicles became a blog it was going to be a game show. Contestants would be given a theme and have to come up with a pertinent top 10 that they would then fill out, and the winner would be determined by whose list the audience liked best. In the final lightning round, the last [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]