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Michael Jackson’s mega-epic memorial service takes place today at Los Angeles’s Staples Arena, with over 17,000 people attending and a long list of celebrities lined up to pay their respects. But how does the guest list of Kobe Bryant, Brooke Shields, Berry Gordy, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Hudson, Magic Johnson, Al Sharpton, Usher, Stevie Wonder, Smokey [...]

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 [...]

Last time our weekly psychoanalysticle ended on a video of an airplane flying suggestively through a monument. Though the video served to help illustrate the idea that some monuments derive symbolic power from their yonic shape, it turns out to have been uncannily prophetic. That Freudian slip foreshadowed this week’s installment of Freudian Fridays, which [...]

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.

Top 10 Spec Ads of [...]

As we enter big award show-season, Grammy, Golden Globe and Oscar nominations are among the most anticipated (and criticized) lists of the year. Last week’s award list came from the Golden Globes, announcing the nominees for the 2009 edition of the TV and movie award show.
Not important in and of themselves, people pay attention to [...]

Our friend (until she left us for cooler friends) Edith Zimmerman draws our attention to this hilarious list from those hard-working students at College On the Record, deftly observing the dominant costume trend of the day: The 15 Worst Joker Costumes.
As we noted yesterday with news that the Googlegeist has Heath Ledger as the most-searched [...]

One of the big year-end lists comes to us today from the rulers of all things online, Google, who released the findings of their annual search tabulations on their Google Zeitgeist 2008 site. The whole Googlegeist site is full of fascinating findings (like that New Zealanders are really into the new hadron collider or that [...]

With today’s news that Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich was essentially auctioning off President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant senate seat to whomever could promise him and his wife the best career boosts, the Windy City’s historical tendency towards corruption has come full circle (how fitting that such news should break on International Anti-Corruption Day).
With that history [...]

In this weekly series we, the hard-working list-sniffers of Listicles, fess up to the fact that the Internet produces infinitely more lists than we could possibly cover and critique. In Weekly Wednesdays, we present five great lists from the last week that we weren’t able to do full justice to.

Top 6 Gay Movie Heroes: The [...]

The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly features a list whose sweeping claims to authority make it ripe for the picking apart: The 50 Sexiest Movies Ever (Top 25 available online). Somehow Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight snagged number one, likely on the sexiness of its stars George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, rather than its two [...]