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We’ve long had a fantasy of renting (buying even, maybe, since it’s a fantasy) an old church and turning it into a really cool loft-type thing. We almost did it once, but then realized that we couldn’t change the three story-tall stained glass images of Jesus and company being killed/tortured/abused, because the church was a [...]

We’ve been listening to a lot of chiptune lately – you know, that genre of music created using video game audio technologies from the 80s that are capable of something like 60 different notes. We’ve especially been blasting delightful 8-bit versions of some of our favorite pop songs, and one of the most chiptuned artists, [...]

In terms of traditional tchotchkas, they don’t come much more uselessly cute than Russian dolls. Accordingly, they can be adapted to fit just about any theme, as demonstrated by GadgetHer’s listicle of 25 Unusual Russian Nesting Dolls. We’re especially fond of these Michael Jackson nesting dolls, with their reverse-chronological timeline. Still, we found a few [...]

Fan-dom, as virtually all of us know but few will admit, involves about as much copycat art and homage as the Internet can handle. Some of these artifacts are more valuable and laudable than others; like, for instance, Michael Jackson art is a hot commodity right now. In the hierarchy of fan art, experimental videos [...]

If there’s a genre of music that’s more obsessed with covering Top 40 hits than reggae, it’s got to be Mariachi band music. Similarly, the chronic cover impulse has a lot to do with the need to produce cross-overs lest artists be ghettoized in the “world music” category. This, in turn, produces some amazing moments [...]

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 [...]

The ecstatic, exuberant, crotch-grabbing ways of the late great Michael Jackson may have caused some controversy in their time, but that hasn’t stopped innumerable musical artists since from adopting the iconic move and making it their own. There’s Lil’ Wayne (at right), for instance, who seems to be doing it out of reflex more than [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today is beloved comic strip character Garfield’s 31st birthday, a fact regular readers of the lazy cat’s antics will already know since Jim Davis makes a point of marking his famous creation’s anniversary ever year. Not surprisingly, being that he’s a grumpy foodie who loves to eat about as much as he likes to be [...]