And just think: When your shitty kid marries someone you violently disapprove of 20 years from now, this song -- with its references to blowjobs and songs that were ground into the ground before the kid was a twinkle in your eye -- will serve as the couple's first dance. As you watch your offspring and new in-law twirl around the dance floor, you will reach for a glass of Champagne Loko (President Kid Rock won't try to ban the stuff until he's up for re-election in 2032) and wonder how everything went so, so wrong.
The Village Voice presents the
20 Worst Songs of 2010. [more inside]
posted by Lutoslawski
on Dec 22, 2010 -
169 comments
My Immortal is an infamous piece of fanfiction by Tara Gilesbie that has the distinction of being the
top Google result for "worst fanfic ever". It's a fascinating read, both for its unique turns-of-word (like when Draco and the author begin to "make out keenly"), and for how effectively it reveals the author's culture and insecurities — the way it alternates between denunciations of superficial "prep" culture and elaborate descriptions of its protagonist's wardrobe, its constant obsession with sex mixed with a squeamish aversion of any eroticism, and its desire, chapter by chapter, to both denounce its critics and to prove them somehow wrong.
TVtropes,
Urban Dictionary, and
Encyclopedia Dramatica each debate whether the piece is sincere or satirical. "If it's fake," says UD, "it's complete genius; and if it's real it's total desecration of a perfectly good book/movie series."
posted by Rory Marinich
on Nov 19, 2010 -
85 comments
In 2008, Gabe Delahaye, senior editor of
Videogum (
previously), began the
Hunt for the Worst Movie of All Time. From
A.I. to
Zardoz, over 70 films have so far been surveyed, including
Crash,
Caligula (nsfw),
Kangaroo Jack,
Gigli,
The Notebook, and
Closer.
[more inside]
posted by rollick
on Feb 18, 2010 -
140 comments
On December 4, 2008, at NYC's
Symphony Space,
NPR's
Intelligence Squared program conducted an
Oxford-
style debate. As their future debate schedules in
Australia,
England, and
America show, the propositions of such debates are routinely phrased strongly to provoke debate, and this was no exception. The motion that was put forward was: "
Resolved, that Bush 43 is the worst President of the last 50 years."
[mp3, 23 MB, 50 min.] What lifts this above the
reams of media and multimedia already spent on this issue is that, moderated by ABC's
John Donvan, this premise was debated — under formal debate guidelines — by
Jacob Weisberg,
Sir Simon Jenkins,
Bill Kristol, and ...
Karl Rove.
[more inside]
posted by WCityMike
on Jan 6, 2009 -
28 comments
Radar picks the worst colleges in America. At least one of the picks is rather dubious, although I suppose being the "worst" Ivy League is a position of some note, and another one of the picks was where my school's valedictorian went. Either way, it's always nice to see the Moonies somersaulting into otherwise non-Moonie related stories.
posted by Sticherbeast
on Aug 27, 2007 -
75 comments
Blender Magazine lists the 50 worst songs of all time. Wait. Before you click the link know the the geniuses over at Blender only post songs 50 (Celline Dion's "My Heart Will Go On") through 41 (Color Me Badd's “I Wanna Sex You Up.” Yeah, I'm going to go buy a copy just for this article, aren't you? Fortunately,
MSN spares us the torment of not knowing what the worst song of all time might be. Ready? Starship's "We Built This City." Now recognizing that it's the job of critics to make choices, and this is an impossible one, surely we can do better than that, no? [via danieldrezner.com]
posted by mojohand
on Apr 23, 2004 -
98 comments
The Worst Book I Ever Read “
Finnegan’s Wake is the best example of modernism disappearing up its own fundament.”
A Brief History of Time and Iris Murdoch show up twice.
Mein Kampf is as interesting as a bus timetable and “JK Rowling is the sub-literary analogue of Tony Blair.” Tolkien appears most foten, making him the most hated of this little group.
posted by raaka
on May 25, 2003 -
140 comments
Which Country Has The Most Beautiful Women? The best quality of life? The most divorces? The most mobile phones? The highest cost of living? Which one is the most visited? Rank the bastards! After browsing through this website, I'm sure the conclusion that we're all living
in the wrong one is inescapable. The statistics and sources may be questionable, but there sure are
a lot of interesting lists here! Meanwhile my own country, Portugal, has just been denounced as the the
laziest in Europe and the
booziest in the world. They lie! They lie! [
Actually, it's a fair cop, guv. And it was nice to drag down the Brits with us.]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Apr 17, 2003 -
53 comments
The Bottom Feeders. Are these truly the 5 worst movie critics in America? Personally, Ebert gives me migraines and Joel Siegel makes me want to claw out my eyes. Who's your most hated movie critic?
posted by tankboy
on Mar 29, 2002 -
30 comments
