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List Inconsequential: Classic Characters We Love to Hate
Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger It’s part of the teenage experience to empathize with Holden Caulfield, the youthful protagonist of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. But
Read More »List Inconsequential: Best Places to Go For a Bone: Our Favorite BBQ Joints in the USA
Podnah’s Pit, Portland, OR You know what I love? Baby, I love the cue. Every meat-ripping, sauce-dripping, bone-sucking part of it, even the heartburn. And when I want barbecue, I head up to Podnah’s
Read More »List Inconsequential: Great Musicians Who Haven’t Made a Great Album in At Least 10 Years
Paul Simon What’s that you say, Mrs. Robinson? Paul Simon has left and gone away. Ten long years ago, You’re the One was supposed to signal the singer-songwriter’s artistic rebirth. Instead, the man Time
Read More »List Inconsequential: 11 Young Adult Novels We Love
Does the constant visual bombardment of Twilight paraphernalia cause you to sigh heavily and mutter about the cultural detritus that is youth culture shit-lit? And have you also maybe kinda sorta but wouldn’t swear
Read More »List Inconsequential: 11 Graphic Novels We Love
When you want to recommend music to someone — and not just any music, your passion music, the music that makes you dance or thrash or bump asses or have stupid sex and fall
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List Inconsequential: Screw You, Oscar 2010
Even though the Oscars expanded their Best Picture nominees to 10 films this year, there is no hiding that the entire ceremony is a joke. Slumdog Millionaire as Best Picture last year? Give me
Read More »List Inconsequential: Valentine’s Day: Indie’s Greatest Love Songs
It’s almost Valentine’s Day! You know, that holiday manufactured to remind those of us who are in relationships we shouldn’t take the love we have for granted and to rub it in for the
Read More »List Inconsequential: Let Me Put My Love Into You:11 Songs of Sleaze
Let’s get this straight: There is a difference between a sleazy song and a vulgar song. The vulgar song makes us laugh at its sheer audacity; the sleazy song makes us want to shower
Read More »List Inconsequential: Halloween ’09 Mix Tape: Release the Bats!
Halloween may be the most rock ‘n’ roll of all holidays (sorry Bastille Day). Despite its innocuous, even religious, origins, Halloween has come to represent all manner of evil, both supernatural and terrestrial, illicit
Read More »PLAYLIST: The Beatles
On September 9th, the Beatles’ catalog will finally appear in remastered CD form. Even if this is a last ditch attempt to make money on the dying compact disc industry it cannot take away
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