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• 2 illnesses linked to recall of Snoqualmie ice cream products

  24-12-2014 23:37
  
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• Three Comics That Will Suck You Into a Whole New Plane of Cartooning Existence

  24-12-2014 23:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Drew Weing's Set to Sea is a pirate adventure comic. And it's published by Fantagraphics Books, which usually tends to avoid such easily identifiable genre fictions. So what makes Set to Sea so special? Oh, only everything. The book is made up of full-page panels telling the story of our protagonist, a hulking mass of a man who considers himself to be a poet. Soon enough, he's kidnapped and put to work on a pirate ship. All he wants is to escape. But then a raiding band of pira
  
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• Last Days: Welcome, North Korean Hacker Overlords!

  24-12-2014 23:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  HACKED TO DEATH
  
  MONDAY, DECEMBER 15 This week of peeping creeps, Uber horror, and a big Cuban surprise kicked off on TV, where tonight The Colbert Report welcomed actor Seth Rogen to promote The Interview, the forthcoming comedy from Sony Pictures starring Rogen and James Franco as celebrity journalists tasked with assassinating North Korean despot Kim Jong-un. Addressing North Korea's displeasure with (and alleged hacking of Sony over) the forthcoming film, Colbert asked Ro
  
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• Winter ferry schedule begins on Sunday

  24-12-2014 23:00
  
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• Body of Alaska avalanche victim recovered

  24-12-2014 22:52
  
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• What Are You Allowed to Say While Exercising Your Right to Freely Assemble on Santa's Lap? (And the Meaning of Stock Photography)

  24-12-2014 22:42 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Cheryl Casey/ShutterstockThis comes up when you search for a stock photo of "Kid on Santa's Lap at the Mall."
  First, let's discuss for a moment why this photograph is a beautiful deviation from what a stock photo usually is. Because this is, very clearly, not a stock stock photo.
  The basic deviation is imperfection leading to doubt. A stock photo should raise no questions, but this photo raises many.
  Start with Santa. Why won't Santa look us in the eyes? What does he have to hi
  
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• The Director of Rise of the Planet of the Apes Veers Into Science Fiction with The Gambler, a Film That Expects Us To Believe Mark Wahlberg as an English Professor

  24-12-2014 22:25 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  (The Gambler opens tonight at 7 pm in theaters around the city.)
  Would you take a literature course from this man?
  What a weird world we live in, that the director of Rise of the Planet of the Apes chose as his next project a Mark Wahlberg-starring remake of a 40-year-old James Caan movie scripted by James Toback. But here we are, and here The Gambler is, and let’s just make the best of it, shall we? Wahlberg stars as Jim Bennett, a self-loathing college professor with a
  
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• I Love Television: Things I Should Definitely Not Have Said in 2014

  24-12-2014 22:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  TOP GUN
  It's an annual tradition: I look back at all the columns I wrote during the past year and marvel at the insanely stupid things I said. Then I collect those insipid, drippingly terrible sentences and reprint the dumbest of them here in hopes I will someday learn my lesson and just shut the hell up. Again... DIDN'T WORK.
  
  And now... "The Year in Stupid Things I Really Wish I Hadn't Said (Presented Completely Out of Context)." Enjoy! (?)
  
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• The Art Critics Weigh in on the Giant Robot on Somebody's Lawn in Ballard

  24-12-2014 21:39 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  JGThe giant robot of Ballard.
  There is a robot standing still on somebody's lawn in Ballard. He only moves at night, the people say, when he walks around the neighborhood. Considering what happens every year at night on December 24, presumably, the robot is friends with this guy.
  I discovered this robot sculpture back in October, and reached out to his people via their Castle In the Sky Robot Sculpture account. They did not respond, but their Tumblr answers the basic questions.
  
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• Rush Limbaugh Says Casting Idris Elba as James Bond Would Be Like Casting Scarlett Johansson as Condoleezza Rice

  24-12-2014 21:28 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.comI'm really only posting this story because I will take any opportunity to post a picture of Idris Elba on Slog.
  Rush Limbaugh knows what color fictional characters are, you guys. He's just as much of an expert in fictional race deliberation as Megyn Kelly. And the fact is, Rush Limbaugh hates the idea of Idris Elba—"I'm not sure how you pronounce the guy's name," Limbaugh says dismissively of Elba, whose name is pronounced Elba—as James
  
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• Court orders release of jailed real estate mogul

  24-12-2014 21:16
  
  A federal appeals court ordered the release Wednesday of a real estate mogul who was jailed last week in Montana after being found in contempt of court over his sale of a Mexico resort.
  
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• It's Time for Holiday Sweets, Whether You Like Them or Not

  24-12-2014 20:50 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  NORWEGIAN KRUMKAKER
  Every December during my childhood, my mother enlisted me to labor in her Christmas cookie factory. Together, we'd make hundreds of cookies to give as gifts to friends. Our Christmas cookies did not involve mixed dough, an oven, or even sprinkles. Instead, there was powdered milk, a deep electric griddle, and grated cheddar cheese.
  While my friends and their families were making sugar cookies, we were cranking out polvorón. Polvorón, derived from t
  
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• Court orders release of jailed real estate mogul Tim Blixseth

  24-12-2014 20:34
  
  A federal appeals court ordered the release Wednesday of a real estate mogul who was jailed last week in Montana after being found in contempt of court over his sale of a Mexico resort.
  
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• It's a Very Ayn Rand Christmas

  24-12-2014 20:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  When Rand Paul becomes president, this is going to be America's favorite Christmas tale, not some crappy ghost story written by an old dead British dude.One of my favorite Christmas traditions is watching conservative Christians try to reconcile the holiday season's many messages of selfless giving with their own selfish political philosophy. My favorite instance of this willful brand of brain-fart was the Republican blogger and his commenters who tried to argue that A Christma
  
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• Justices undo sentences in Lakewood cop killings

  24-12-2014 20:23
  
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• When Oh When Will Sun City Girls’ Classic Torch of the Mystics LP Get Reissued?

  24-12-2014 20:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Sun City Girls' Torch of the Mystics is one of the most coveted underground-rock albums in the world. It was originally released on vinyl in 1990 by Majora, and then reissued on CD in '93 by the Tupelo Recording Company. It's an understatement to say that demand for this classic psych-rock record is strong. Torch's golden reputation among heads combined with its scarcity has driven up the price of it to astronomical levels. Discogs currently lists three vinyl copies for sale, w
  
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• LAPD to Open Investigation After TMZ Posts Video of Song at Cop Party Mocking the Death of Michael Brown

  24-12-2014 19:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Yesterday, TMZ published video of a song performed at a party attended by current and former Los Angeles Police Department members. The song, which is set to the music of "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," parodies the shooting of Michael Brown. Here's the video:
  
  And here, via the LA Times, are some of the lyrics:
  Michael Brown learned a lesson
  about a messin’ with a bad … police man
  And he’s, bad, bad Michael Brown
  Baddest thug in the whole darn town
  Badder tha
  
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• Football-sized dog keeps postal carriers from delivering woman's mail

  24-12-2014 19:28
  
  Football-sized dog keeps Spokane postal carriers from delivering mail
  
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• Casey Kasem’s widow suing Gig Harbor hospital for medical records

  24-12-2014 19:15
  
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• Spokane Valley bank manager admits embezzling

  24-12-2014 19:10
  
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• Babywatch. Rhymes With Lightning Crotch.

  24-12-2014 19:08 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  JGThis nifty graph is on page 196 of Emily Oster's book Expecting Better. She created it based on the 2008 U.S. Natality Detail Files, her endnotes say.
  Folks, I'm expecting a baby and today's the due date. Yup. For real. To-day. Not that he'll necessarily come today. But whatever happens, on this day, we begin...
  BABYWATCH&*(&$#*(^$@*(#'!
  I just thought that you should know.
  And while we're on the subject of what it means to be far along in a pregnancy, let me introduce you to
  
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• Your Guide to the List-Heavy, Brain-Damaged, Theater-Hating Contents of This Week's Stranger

  24-12-2014 19:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Read the whole new issue of The Stranger right here!
  
  1. This issue of The Stranger is chock-full of musical "best-of" lists. The Stranger has for years mocked the pretense of list-making as somehow beneath the storied tastes of their staff, which is primarily composed of dropouts, admitted drug addicts, and perverts. Now that BuzzFeed and Upworthy have proven that it's possible to make money in listicle journalism, is The Stranger jumping on the bandwagon as part of a last-dit
  
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• Seaside, Ore. man accused in death of 2-year-old girl

  24-12-2014 18:59
  
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• Sony Screws Over Independent Cinema by Releasing The Interview for Rental on YouTube Today

  24-12-2014 18:29 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  The Interview will soon be available at an independent theater near you. And on your TV, because fuck independent cinema, right?
  Like many of you, I'm sick of The Interview, and I haven't even seen The Interview. But I was pretty happy with how the whole story ended yesterday: Not only is the movie coming out on Christmas, but it's only playing in non-corporate, art house theaters like Ark Lodge Cinema in Columbia City. This was a heartwarming conclusion to the story: Not only
  
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• Two men at large in Olympia stabbing

  24-12-2014 17:35
  
  Two men at large in Olympia stabbing
  
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• The Christmas Eve Morning News: Nate Silver's Data Confirms the Seahawks Are Insufferably Good

  24-12-2014 17:20 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  lev radin / Shutterstock.comScience, in the form of Nate Silver's data analysis, says that Marshawn Lynch and the Seahawks are probably going to do pretty well this year.
  Data Puts the Seahawks at the Top of the NFL: Nate Silver's analysis says the Seahawks are in a pretty great place, and he says that if the Seahawks win the Superbowl this year, "they should be in the conversation about the greatest team ever."
  The Interview Is Coming to Seattle: The film that either North Kor
  
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• Officer pulls over distracted driver; gets hit by driver on cellphone

  24-12-2014 17:07
  
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• Not guilty plea in Pasco gang shootings

  24-12-2014 17:03
  
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• The atheist who loves Christmas, and other tales of the holiday

  24-12-2014 16:48
  
  UW linebacker Shaq Thompson; Scandinavian humorist Stan Boreson; a doctor working emergency at Harborview; the president of the Seattle Atheists: What will they be doing Christmas Day?
  
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• Woman kicked off plane, arrested in Seattle

  24-12-2014 15:51
  
  Woman kicked off plane, arrested in Seattle
  
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• Former Bellingham, Spokane police chief Terry Mangan dies

  24-12-2014 15:08
  
  Mangan was known for his introduction of community-oriented policing to Spokane, and the creation of neighborhood COPS offices. In Bellingham, Mangan was credited with linking the “hillside strangler” of Los Angeles, to the deaths of two Western Washington University students.
  
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• Daily Rant&Rave: Shoppers serenade store staff

  24-12-2014 15:01
  
  RAVE To the customers at our Alderwood store who waited outside patiently until we opened at 9 a.m. the Saturday before Christmas, and when we opened the doors they sang “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” to our staff. It made our day!
  
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• Stabbing outside Wash. restaurant sends 2 to hospital

  24-12-2014 14:54
  
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• Snow in the mountains, but cloudy Christmas for W. Wash.

  24-12-2014 14:48
  
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• Possible Bumbershoot deal could mean venue, date changes

  24-12-2014 14:28
  
  Possible Bumbershoot deal could mean venue, date changes
  
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• Casey Kasem’s widow battling Gig Harbor hospital for medical records

  24-12-2014 14:09
  
  Casey Kasem’s widow sues for medical records
  
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• Woman pushing stroller fatally struck by vehicle

  24-12-2014 13:47
  
  Woman pushing stroller fatally struck by vehicle
  
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• Top Ten List Explosion!

  24-12-2014 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Top Ten List Explosion!
  
  by Stranger Staff
  
  
  
  
  
  Top 10 Albums of 2014
  
  
  Top 10 Singles of 2014
  
  
  Top 10 Music Videos of 2014
  
  
  Top 10 Seattle Albums of 2014
  
  
  Top 10 Albums We Would Have Included in Our Top 10 Seattle Albums of 2014 if Our Top 10 Seattle Albums of 2014 Could Have Had 20 Albums in It
  
  
  Top 10 Albums We’re Supposed to Include in Our Top 10 Albums of 2014 That Are Good but They’re Just
  
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• Top 10 Un-Copyedited Metal Band Descriptions from the Bands' Bios of 2014

  24-12-2014 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Top 10 Un-Copyedited Metal Band Descriptions from the Bands' Bios of 2014
  
  by Kathleen Richards
  
  
  
  
  
  10. Aversions Crown: "With a thematic fixation on dystopian nightmares and hostile extraterrestrial encounters, the relentless barrage AVERSIONS CROWN churn out across these ten songs will soundtrack either a solid Halo session or the coming invasion."
  
  
  9. Wardruna: "Runaljod – Gap Var Ginnunga incorporat
  
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• Top 10 Songs Seattle Bars and Cafes Are Hereby Encouraged to Retire from Their Playlists of 2014

  24-12-2014 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Top 10 Songs Seattle Bars and Cafes Are Hereby Encouraged to Retire from Their Playlists of 2014
  
  by Brendan Kiley
  
  
  
  
  10. Neutral Milk Hotel, "The King of Carrot Flowers, Part One," In the Aeroplane over the Sea
  
  9. Neutral Milk Hotel, "The King of Carrot Flowers, Parts Two and Three," In the Aeroplane over the Sea
  
  8. Neutral Milk Hotel, "In the Aeroplane over the Sea," In the Aeroplane over the Sea
  
  7. Neutral M
  
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• Top 10 Songs I Heard Played Incessantly on Movin' FM in 2014

  24-12-2014 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Top 10 Songs I Heard Played Incessantly on Movin' FM in 2014
  
  by David Schmader
  
  
  
  
  10. That song with the cool horns and whisper chorus
  
  9. That other hand-clappy song even more annoying than "Happy"
  
  8. That song where that girl has to stay high all the time
  
  7. That one Katy Perry song I kinda like
  
  6. That great Jason Derulo song that samples Balkan Beat Box
  
  5. "You Dropped a Bomb on Me," by the Gap Band
  
  4. T
  
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• Top 10 Songs I Bet My Asshole Neighbor Loved in 2014

  24-12-2014 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Top 10 Songs I Bet My Asshole Neighbor Loved in 2014
  
  by Emily Nokes
  
  
  
  
  10. "Let It Go," Idina Menzel
  
  9. "I Bet My Life," Imagine Dragons
  
  8. "All About That Bass," Meghan Trainor
  
  7. "#SELFIE," the Chainsmokers
  
  6. "Drinking Class," Lee Brice
  
  5. "Happy," Pharrell
  
  4. "Not on Drugs," Tove Lo
  
  3. "Animals," Maroon 5
  
  2. "Don't," Ed Sheeran
  
  1. "I Don't Fuck with You," Big Sean (feat. E-40)
  
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• Top 10 Seattle Albums of 2014

  24-12-2014 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Top 10 Seattle Albums of 2014
  
  
  
  
  10. Dreamsalon, Soft Stab (Dragnet/Sweet Rot)
  Soft Stab by DREAMSALON
  9. Earth, Primitive and Deadly (Southern Lord)
  Primitive And Deadly by Earth
  
  8. Naomi Punk, Television Man (Captured Tracks)
  
  7. S, Cool Choices (Hardly Art)
  
  6. Tacocat, NVM (Hardly Art)
  
  [Note: Tacocat singer/Stranger music editor Emily Nokes had nothing to do with this, so please feel free to suck it.]
  
  5. Perfume Genius, Too Brig
  
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• Top 10, No, 15 Times Rolling Stone, in Fucking 2014, Wrote About Led Zeppelin

  24-12-2014 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Top 10, No, 15 Times Rolling Stone, in Fucking 2014, Wrote About Led Zeppelin
  
  by Emily Nokes
  
  
  
  
  15. July 30, 2014: "Robert Plant 'Disappointed' in Jimmy Page and Led Zep Reunion Rumors"
  
  14. October 10, 2014: "Robert Plant Reinvents Led Zeppelin Classics at Tiny Brooklyn Gig"
  
  13. September 9, 2014: "Robert Plant: I Want to Record with Jack White"
  
  12. September 10, 2014: "Insid
  
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• Top 10 Music Videos of 2014

  24-12-2014 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Top 10 Music Videos of 2014
  
  
  
  
  10. Shabazz Palaces, "Motion Sickness"
  
  9. Flying Lotus (feat. Kendrick Lamar), "Never Catch Me"
  
  8. Dan'l Boone, "Mindface"
  
  7. St. Vincent, "Birth in Reverse"
  
  6. Jennifer Lopez (feat. Iggy Azalea), "Booty"
  
  5. Sia, "Chandelier"
  
  4. Mac DeMarco, "Passing Out Pieces"
  3. Perfume Genius, "Queen"
  
  2. Nicki Minaj, "Anaconda"
  
  1. Adult Swim, "Too Many Cooks"
  
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• Top 10 Electronic-Music Shows I Saw in 2014

  24-12-2014 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Top 10 Electronic-Music Shows I Saw in 2014
  
  by Dave Segal
  
  
  
  
  10. Koen Holtkamp at Chapel Performance Space (Substrata), July 18
  
  9. Alessandro Cortini at Nordstrom Recital Hall (Decibel), September 26
  
  8. Factory Floor at Barboza, April 8
  
  7. M. Geddes Gengras at Barboza, July 3
  
  6. Hieroglyphic Being at Kremwerk (MOTOR), September 18
  
  5. Rrose at Re-bar (Decibel), September 24
  
  4. Voices from the Lake at Big Bui
  
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• Top 10 Albums We Pretended Not to Be Bummed Out By for a Week Then Tacitly Agreed Never to Speak of Again of 2014

  24-12-2014 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Top 10 Albums We Pretended Not to Be Bummed Out By for a Week Then Tacitly Agreed Never to Speak of Again of 2014
  
  
  
  
  10. Morrissey, World Peace Is None of Your Business (Harvest)
  
  9. Leonard Cohen, Popular Problems (Columbia)
  
  8. The Pixies, Indie Cindy (Pixiesmusic/PIAS)
  
  7. Scott Walker & Sunn O))), Soused (4AD)
  
  6. The Hold Steady, Teeth Dreams (Razor & Tie)
  
  5. Prince, Plectrumelectrum (Paisley Park/Warner Brothers)
  
  4. Pri
  
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• Top 10 Albums and Songs Not Released in 2014 That I Heard for the First Time in 2014

  24-12-2014 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Top 10 Albums and Songs Not Released in 2014 That I Heard for the First Time in 2014
  
  by Mike Nipper
  
  
  
  
  10. Charlie Rich, "Love Is After Me" (Diablo)
  
  9. Kelly Garrett singing "Love's the Only Answer" on Playboy After Dark
  
  8. V/A, Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968–1974 (Sublime Frequencies)
  
  7. Hot Knives, Hot Knives (Got Kinda Lost)
  
  6. The Four of Us, "I Don't Need No One" (Brunswick)
  
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• The Gambler: Wahlberg Is No Caan

  24-12-2014 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  The Gambler: Wahlberg Is No Caan
  
  by Paul Constant
  
  
  
  What a weird world we live in, that the director of Rise of the Planet of the Apes chose as his next project a Mark Wahlberg-starring remake of a 40-year-old James Caan movie scripted by James Toback. But here we are, and here The Gambler is, and let’s just make the best of it, shall we? Wahlberg stars as Jim Bennett, a self-loathing college professor with a s
  
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• Paul Constant's Top 10 Complaints About Year-End Lists of 2014

  24-12-2014 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Paul Constant's Top 10 Complaints About Year-End Lists of 2014
  
  by Paul Constant
  
  
  
  
  10. "Plus, I haven't read every book, seen every movie, or listened to every album released in 2014, so if I have no claim to comprehensiveness, why would my list even matter?"
  
  9. "Lists are just lazy comment bait."
  
  8. "Lists are equally insulting to writers and readers. You can't be bothered to read an article? I can't be bother
  
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