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List Inconsequential: Best Fries in North America
(Photo: Mark H. Anbinder, 14850 Dining) Five Guys (various) Five Guys’ fries were once rated the unhealthiest fries in America, so you know they must be amazing. Their fries attain some Platonic ideal of
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List Inconsequential: Runt of the Litter: Weak Albums By Strong Artists
Sky Blue Sky by Wilco (2007) Drugs help. When Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy went to rehab (no, no, no) in 2004, the band had just come off the masterful one-two punch of Yankee Hotel
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List Inconsequential: Third Act Disasters
Leviathan (1989) The 1980s saw a lot of Alien rip-offs, including several in the briefly popular “underwater Alien” sub-genre. Leviathan is arguably one of the best known while also being the least respected, a
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List Inconsequential: The Best Biographies
The Tao of Wu by the RZA If there is one incontrovertible fact that my generation knows, it’s that Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nothing to fuck with. The head of the Gundam that is that
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List Inconsequential: Best and Worst Candy
BEST Fruit Mentos A while back I had to quit Mentos cold turkey. Why? I couldn’t shake a gluttonous practice of buying about four rolls at a pop a few days a week, cracking
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List Inconsequential: SXSW 2012 Memories
Jack White takes a quick breather to get his beans together before playing an impromptu show for his Third Man Records label. Joshua James soundcheck before literally blazing a sweaty set of gospel fueled
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List Inconsequential: Most Devastating Film Break-ups
Jack and Rose in Titanic “I’ll never let go, Jack. I’ll never let go.” Shiver. Crunch. Drift. That sound you hear is thousands of teenage girls in 1997 mourning the end of their childhood
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List Inconsequential: Best Mixtapes
Clipse – We Got It 4 Cheap Volume 2 (2005) Clipse’s We Got It 4 Cheap mixtape series foreshadowed the music industry of today, where rappers release free music in hopes of getting signed
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List Inconsequential: The Only Academy Awards Feature You Need to Read
Best Actor: Brian Wolowitz: There’s always a certain amount of “process of elimination” when it comes to Oscar favorites, so let’s see: Pitt was nominated for the wrong role (should’ve been Tree of Life),
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List Inconsequential: Top Breakup Songs
Denial Side “Woke Up New” by the Mountain Goats No other song encapsulates the bitter end to a years-long cohabitation quite like “Woke Up New.” As Mountain Goats creator and frontman John Darnielle gently
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