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Best Albums of 2010

Friday, December 24th, 2010

Mind-boggling laziness and procrastination combined with our time-consuming Best Films of The Aughts post delayed my list of the best records of 2009 three months. Determined to avoid that same fate in 2010, I started early. Each time I heard something worth sharing, I wrote it down—starting with These New Puritan’s Hidden, way back in […]

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Five Books We Should Burn Instead of the Qur’an

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

by Ryan Macdonald By now we’ve all heard about the wacky pastor from Florida and his Qur’an-burning parties. Seriously, does anything good come out of Florida anymore? Citrus. That is all. I’d like to point out two things if I may. The first is that the opponents of this brilliantly intricate plan (among them our […]

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Top 5 Films Your Daddy Should’ve Made You Watch

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Parents are a crafty bunch. For the first five or ten years of your life, culturally, they own your ass. As soon as you’re done with your sing-a-long cassettes, and Sesame Street has been brought to you by every letter in the alphabet (and by the number 3), it begins. Before you know it you’re […]

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Top Five Albums I Should Have Told You About In December

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

I spent a lot of time in December working with The Great White Gypsy, trying to get put together an awesome Best of The Aughts list for the film section. And in doing so, I totally forgot to put together a list of the best records I discovered in 2009. So I’m making up for it now.

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Top 5 Worst Directors of all Time

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

by The Great White Gypsy 1. M. Night Shayamalan The Sixth Sense was freaking awesome, with an eerie atmosphere, and one of the best plot twists up to that point. Everything M. Night has done since then has sucked balls. Unbreakable was the worst superhero film ever (“They call me Mr. Glass.” Are you fucking […]

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Top Five Coolest Supervillains of All Time

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

1. The Joker The mysteries of Joker’s origins can best be summed up in his own words, “Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another…if I’m going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!” This guy is so fucking insane, it borders on genius. But the best thing about The Joker […]