tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54987012009-02-21T02:17:09.877-06:00A List a DayC'mon everyone loves a good list, don't they? This is the place to find links and commentaries on lists of all sizes and merit. AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.comBlogger309125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1106593737425859572005-01-24T13:08:00.000-06:002005-01-24T13:08:57.426-06:00PICTURES CAME AND BROKE YOUR HEART: A quarter-century or so after the Buggles declared the radio star dead, done in by video (in the conservatory with the candlestick), a new poll conducted by British cell phone company 3 seems to suggest that the video star might now want to look into estate planning, as Johnny Cash's haunting video for "Hurt" topped a list of the Top 20 Music Videos of All TimeAlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1083611735247590652004-05-03T14:15:00.000-05:002004-05-03T14:18:50.200-05:00Movin' On Up
The big news that you have all been waiting for is A List A Day has now officially merged with a couple of other fine, like-minded, pop-culture blogs. The new home of this blog is here, though the archives and links and whatnot will remain at this current address.
Now what are you doing wasting your time here when you could be wasting it there.AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1083185407355103812004-04-28T15:50:00.000-05:002004-04-28T15:53:13.030-05:00Warm Impermanence
Look for some big ch-ch-changes here next week.
AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1083011066828397712004-04-26T15:24:00.000-05:002004-04-26T20:50:46.000-05:00What About Jan-Michael Vincent?
ESPN's Page 2 continues its look at the best all-around athletes, with the list of the 10 Greatest athletes. Jim Brown tops the list, followed by Jim Thorpe and then Dave Winfield.AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1082999720131598392004-04-26T12:15:00.000-05:002004-04-26T15:10:34.343-05:00Scenes From a Car Wreck on the Way to an Italian Restaurant
Where once he crashed parties on Friday nights, today Billy Joel primarily spends his weekends crashing cars. Joel, who was on his way to pick up a pizza at the time of his latest accident, may want to pay the $2 delivery fee next time, lest he join Harry Chapin, James Dean, and others on the list of Celebrities Who Died in Auto AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1082647848846640612004-04-22T10:30:00.000-05:002004-04-22T10:33:47.750-05:00Time on His Hands
As a columnist for a major metropolitan newspaper and blogger, you wouldn't think Eric Zorn wouldn't have the time to list all 100 of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People. But thankfully he (or some intern) did, so I wouldn't have to (I was going to blog it earlier this week, but was pissed to see that Time had blocked all its current content to non-subscribers). AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1082587307272304062004-04-21T17:41:00.000-05:002004-04-26T20:51:14.903-05:00Listful
Just got back from a screening of what is sure to be a contender for Best Picture next February, so I'm in a baseball mood. Plus it's been awhile since I alienated non-sports fans, but there have been some intriguing lists popping up lately from the wide, wide world of athletics. ESPN's Page 2 is trying to determine the World's Greatest Athlete (Rocco Baldelli?) and along those lines AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1082514865336396012004-04-20T21:34:00.000-05:002004-04-20T21:38:06.280-05:00Marconi Plays the Mamba
Back on Sept. 23, 2003, we noted that Starship's "Knee Deep in Hoopla" deserved to be included on the list of Worst Group Efforts (scroll down to the right date) and now comes the news that Blender magazine has picked "We Built This City" as No. 1 on the list of the all-time 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs. While several of the picks are of the shooting fish in the barrel AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1082396632010749252004-04-19T12:43:00.000-05:002004-04-19T12:46:47.826-05:00That's Maxxx With Three X's
While on the one hand it seems wrong to mock anything that has to do with HIV, on the other hand this list of Adult Actors on Quarantine in the wake of two porn industry stars testing positive for the virus last week is just plain surreal. AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1082317309577143852004-04-18T14:41:00.000-05:002004-04-18T14:44:44.500-05:00Why Is the New Yorker Like a Teacher on Vacation?
It seems to take me about a week nowadays to get through a profile in the New Yorker, so I apologize if this has been blogged to death, but in reading the profile of Boondocks cartoonist Aaron McGruder, this passage stood out:
"Most of the time, though, they work on the pilot for Fox. It's been twenty years since 'Fat Albert,' the last black AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1082316297549582092004-04-18T14:24:00.000-05:002004-04-18T14:27:52.686-05:00Thank You, You've Been a Great Audience. Please Tip Your Waitresses
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Greatest Standup of All Time is...Richard Pryor. It's hard to argue with much of the top 20, though I would think Seinfeld deserved to be higher, while I never got the whole Roseanne thing. Chris Rock at No. 5 surprised me, especially ahead of Cosby and Murphy, but after watching his latest HBO special AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1082149991188211302004-04-16T16:13:00.000-05:002004-04-16T16:16:04.546-05:00And Then There We're 20
Comedy Central has posted another update to its list of the 100 Greatest Standups of All Time, and we are there with Nos. 21 to 40. Phyllis Diller becomes the seventh woman on the list, landing at No. 35 and surprisingly Bob Hope, the Don Sutton of Standup, finishes at No. 25. And although Jay may beat Dave in the ratings, Dave presumedly will beat Jay on the list, as LenoAlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1082073389737373712004-04-15T18:56:00.000-05:002004-04-15T18:59:21.590-05:00Take My List, Please
Since record numbers of y'all keep landing here after Googling "Comedy Central list of the 100 Greatest Standups and since between a killer deadline and filing my form 4686 (so lame, I just loaded the Turbo Tax software I bought in February on my computer today), I've got little time for list-finding, I thought an update on Nos. 41 to 60 might sate you. Some of the big names AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1081998518611022572004-04-14T22:08:00.000-05:002004-04-14T22:11:30.280-05:00Of Bobcats and Buttons
Comedy Central has listed Nos. 61-80 from their list of the 100 Greatest Standups of all Time, and a restless nation can sleep easy tonight knowing that Sinbad, perhaps next to Condi Rice, the greatest alum of my wife's alma mater, in No. 78. Carson, Cosby, Hope, Seinfeld, Emo? Who will be No. 1? This update, in cidentally, is for the benefit of the dozens of you who have AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1081884320421161042004-04-13T14:25:00.000-05:002004-04-13T14:28:10.513-05:00They're Biggest Rivals Are the Adams Gags
While the Jefferson Muzzles may sound like the name of a high school basketball team, they are actually an annual award given to those individuals and institutions that aren't down with the First Amendment of the Constitution. The list of this year's Muzzle winners includes Baseball Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey, CBS, and a host of other AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1081875580258422042004-04-13T11:59:00.000-05:002004-04-13T12:03:14.763-05:00Reading Is Fundamental
A bunch of folks, including Roger Ebert, Robert Birnbaum, and Jessa Crispin, rif on their Ten Favorite Novels over at Professor Barnhardt's Journal today. Glad to see my favorite book make Tod Goldberg's list (go ahead and guess which one) and Vanishing Point by David Markson, which I just picked up at the library this morning, make Adam Finley's list. AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1081786719586835202004-04-12T11:18:00.000-05:002004-04-12T11:21:46.606-05:00Funny 'Cause They're True
Expect to see a lot of brick walls this week as Comedy Central joins the list-making crowd with five hours of The 100 Greatest Standups of All Time. I couldn't find the list published anywhere, but I have it from a reliable source that a certain melon-smashing yuckster should be very pleased with the results.AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1081786166888859862004-04-12T11:09:00.000-05:002004-04-12T11:22:12.590-05:00Thank God for VH1!
What better to distract us from the news of the world than another list from the cable channel that mine as well have invented numerical ordering, Video Hits One. While The 100 Most Outrageous Celebrity Moments, seems a better fit for E!, you can't help but be amused by such an exercise. Besides, it's hard to build up too much outrage about a list where 80% of the outrageous AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1081784199923372812004-04-12T10:36:00.000-05:002004-04-12T10:39:59.450-05:00Can't Seem to Get My Mind off of You
In contrast to Weird "The Hardest Working Man in Showbiz" Al (see post below), no one, and I mean no one, enjoys a good vacation like our president. While we were being reminded last week by Condi Rice's testimony that the president spent the month of August 2001 on his ranch reading old Archie comics and not his PDB, Bush was not in the White House monitoringAlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1081716554302064972004-04-11T15:49:00.000-05:002004-04-11T15:52:02.293-05:00The Show Must Go On
On the one hand, you have to admire a man who shortly after learning of the death of his parents, decides to still go on stage and delight his legions of fans in Mankato, Minn., fans with "Eat It," "Another One Rides the Bus," and "I Lost on Jeopardy." On the other hand, there's something slightly psychotic about a man who can go on stage and perform "Like a Surgeon," "Hey AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1081529239510507682004-04-09T11:47:00.000-05:002004-04-12T11:22:35.200-05:00I Wish That I Had Nick's Girl
Because then I would be betrothed to the hottie at the top of this year's Maxim Hot 100 List. OK, I'm as bored with here as the rest of you, but I have a sworn duty to mention this stuff. Incidentally, if you just thought the Maxim list was something of a wanker's dream team, think again. "The Hot 100 is a barometer of the hottest women in film, TV, music, sports andAlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1081452664808500342004-04-08T14:31:00.000-05:002004-04-09T09:04:20.843-05:00The Bush Administration Was Prepared for an Attack by Werewolves, Though
According to this New York Times story about Condi's appearance in front of the 9/11 commission this morning: "Ms. Rice asserted that there was 'no silver bullet,' or unmistakable clue, to the impending Sept. 11 attacks." She also went on to state that there was no "garlic necklace," "chunk of Kryptonite," or "bucket of AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1081370506688954092004-04-07T15:41:00.000-05:002004-04-09T09:04:39.966-05:00Lists Aplenty
Got some good ones today...
Slant Magazine presents the 100 Greatest Music Videos, and aside from the listing the entire Madonna catalog save, say "Papa, Don't Preach" and "Into the Groove," it's a thoughtful list, omitting some of the standards like "Sabotage" and "Losing My Religion," in favor of long overlooked classics like "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Voices Carry." AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1081201664406939202004-04-05T16:47:00.000-05:002004-04-05T16:50:26.263-05:00I Need Love, Not Games
Condi (no e), Condi, Condi...20 things you might not know about Condi Rice, to which we'd add: 21. She's a lying tool. AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498701.post-1081178476380159302004-04-05T10:21:00.000-05:002004-04-05T10:23:58.340-05:00Yankee Hotel Detox
Wilco's Jeff Tweedy (reg. req.) joins the long list of musicians who have spent a little time in rehab.AlexGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00600556770040186947noreply@blogger.com0