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We’re still working on a Halloween costume (yes, we always push this to the last minute), but we’re thinking the best way to go about the decision might be to see what the experts wear. By experts, of course, we mean people who wear costumes every day: superheroes.
As it happens, ComicsAlliance has just the listicle [...]

Today, for some reason we can’t quite figure out, is National Play-Doh Day. Our only hunch is that today may be the 54th anniversary of the invention of the product by Joseph McVicker, although we’ve had a hard time pinning down an exact date. Regardless, in its time on the market it’s become a staple [...]

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 [...]

Were we to ever name something after a celebrity (as opposed to someone more obvious and deserving, like ourselves), it would probably be a star (as in “Xeron 12 13 Philip Seymour Hoffman”) or color (like “Cameron Diaz Yellow”) or something less grandiose (maybe “Ol’ Dirty Bastard Lane”). One thing’s for sure, we would never [...]

As you’ve presumably heard by now, purveyor of many things lowest-common-denominator Disney recently bought out comic book empire Marvel to the tune of $4 billion. Regardless of whether you think this will make the mousy company’s products better or the wolfy-spidey-hulky company’s work suffer, you can probably take a great deal of pleasure from the [...]

Every so often, in a strange moment of Interweb telepathy (or, as we like to call it, “webathy”, which is incidentally the name of the Listicles office cat), two lists will come into existence at nearly the same moment detailing instances of nearly the same phenomenon. One such case occurred recently, when Unreality posted its [...]

395 years ago yesterday, Pocahontas married John Rolfe, a pious British colonizer who developed the first commercially viable strand of tobacco in the Colony of Virginia. In honor of their joyous union – which ended abruptly in 1616 when Pocahontas died during a pseudo-promotional tour of England with John and their son Thomas - we [...]

Movies are our religion (our cultural religion generally, and the Listicles religion specifically), so it’s fitting that some of the most moving stories put to screen should feature biblical narratives about precocious young folks being shoved into adulthood by the massive responsibilities heaped upon them. Unreality has compiled a brief listicle (too brief, we think) [...]

We’d never really thought of albinos as a group targeted for oppression and violence – the albino we pay closest attention to, rapper Brother Ali, seems pretty empowered – but a New York Times article yesterday highlighted an emerging practice in Tanzania of killing albinos for their body parts. A recent cycle of myths and [...]

Our parents used to get us piñatas for our birthday without fail, but ever since they stopped two years ago we’ve tried to repress memories of those papery candy-vessels into the depths of our subconscious. Then, like an uncanny eruption from the depths of our psychic underworld, NOTCOT.ORG called our attention to this, the world’s [...]