A really good baddie is always so much better than a good good guy, you know? How unbearably boring was Luke Skywalker, for instance? And James Bond? Pretty much just a guy in a suit (no razor-edged hats or steel teeth). Really it’s the good guys who’ve got it bad, stuck playing second fiddle to [...]

Around the Listicles office we’re constantly referring to one another as foods. One person may be cool as a cucumber, while another is top banana, although some of us might not really be cutting the mustard. On the whole though, our staff tends to agree that Listicles is the best thing since sliced bread and [...]

Onesie here, back with another edition of Listicles’ weekly sports column Sporty Saturdays. I recently realized that although there has been ample year-end list coverage in these pages over the last couple of weeks, the ubiquitous sports-themed “best of 2008″ has been absent.
Though I’m especially busy around this time of year with freelance mascot gigs [...]

Welcome to the continuation of this epic year-end edition of our listicle-of-lists Weekly Wednesdays. Earlier we looked at financial crooks, corrupt politicians and pop culture blunders (among others), now we look at some equally heavy, and significantly lighter subjects in the second half of Listicles’ Top 25 Year-End Lists of 2008.

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We, like you dear reader, are overwhelmed with year-end lists at this, the very end of 2008. While we at Listicles strive to keep on top of the Interweb’s swirling, churning, micro-climactic list systems, we habitually miss a few, hence the perfect storm that hits our shores in the middle of every work week: Weekly [...]

In this edition of Weekly Wednesdays, our mid-week catch-up with the ever-accelerating cycle of online list-making, we take a look at some of the best movie-themed lists of the past seven days that we don’t have the time or energy to delve into completely (because, as Ben Affleck explains to Jay and Silent Bob below, [...]

Winter’s just ’round the corner, and for those of us dumb enough to live in cold climate, that means snow. The multipurpose precipitation can be used for wintry sports, ammo against Robert Gibbs, and impermanent artworks. December once heralded the start of Calvin’s eclectic snowmen in Bill Watterson’s inimitable comic strip. The [...]