The latest edition of LA Weekly has a hugh and terrific collection of lists, edited by Joshuah Bearman.
Josh says, "It was an insane amount of work,
like law school finals or something. By the end, everyone was in here for 20
hour stretches, with pages laid out and marked up and the Sugar Bowl on the
conference room TV, and at 2am on the final we were all drinking Crown Royal
with Royal Crown cola, which is my new drink: CR&RC, aka The Bearmaniac."
I wrote a list of "5 Wonderful Things" for the issue. There are plenty of other great lists, like "4 Reasons to be Glad Bush is Still President" (which is pretty convincing, actually), and an excerpt from Boing Boing favorite John Hodgman's book, Areas of My Expertise.
Thankfully, there's an informative list of "Monkey News":
An experiment at Duke University Medical Center offered thirsty monkeys a choice: their favorite drink, in this case, Juicy Juice brand cherry drink, or the opportunity to look at computer images of the dominant, "celebrity" monkey of their pack. Despite their thirst, they chose to look at the pictures. Monkeys with status have food, power and sexual magnetism — everything the others crave. The impulse to look at these "celebrity" monkeys was so strong, it superseded thirst.
And Doug Harvey's outsider music list is intriguing. Link
