Quick Clicks

Marvel’s top 70 (!) covers of all time.

The A.V. Club lists 23 fictitious high schools whose students might not make it out alive.

Designer Daily displays the 25 worst album covers ever. I think I’m on a list fetish today.

Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at the history of the MP3.

What will happen to our over-the-hill rappers? I can’t believe Jay-Z is turning 40.

The Times profiles Radiohead and their fascinating decision to stop recording albums and focus instead on singles.

The Stone Roses’ self-titled turns 20.

Elle (?!) lists the 12 greatest female electric guitarists.

Well, mine doesn’t include any Peter Gabriel. At all.

This is how I fix my mother’s computer, every single time.

Quick Clicks

The Mountain Goats announced US and European tour dates for this fall. They’ll be in NYC on December 1st and 2nd at Webster Hall and the Bell House, respectively.

Was Atticus Finch a classist? Probably.

Playlists from the cast of Mad Men are available to download on iTunes.

You can play Slate’s charming “How Will America End?” game right here.

Why didn’t I think of this. God DAMN it.

Here’s John Vanderslice. Being awesome. Enjoy.

The A.V. Club interviews Matt & Kim. Love them. But I Must. Stop. Writing about hipsters.

Dear Sir or Madam

TLC is advertising pretty heavily for their new show, Police Women of Broward County, here in the city. Every day on the way to work I walk past a poster ad on the side of a phone booth that says, Feel free to call them “Sir” above the show’s logo. It drives me insane. It’s just the worst ad campaign ever. What it basically intimates that only people you would call “sir” wield any real power.

In other words, women only have power in this scheme because they are “like” men. Only men have real power, right? Come on.

Diva in Diapers

This whole trend has always horrified me, but this particular video spurred me to write about it. The video at the top of this page is the focus of my ire. This little girl’s family spent over $70,000 just last year on her pageant costumes,  makeup, photos, and wigs. I don’t understand how a family can justify spending that kind of money when they could be saving it for college. How dare they put a premium on her pretty face over the workings of her little mind.

Worst of all is her mother. A former beauty pageant queen herself (of course) she insists upon calling her daughter’s fussing, whining, and general desire to get the hell OUT of the makeup chair “diva moments.” DIVA MOMENTS. No, no, no.

Darkness Is

The 10 Creepiest “Are You Afraid of the Dark” Episodes

I got sucked into adding an eight-episode Are You Afraid of the Dark DVD to my Netflix queue a while back, and I was sorely disappointed to find out that they were episodes from the “new” Midnight Society: the revival of the show that aired from 1999-2000. It sucked. But when I came across this list of scariest AYAOTD episodes, it brought back memories. These are the episodes I remember, not the reheated revival episodes.

The episode that they voted number one is embedded after the jump.