11 Best Books About September 11th

11 Best Books About September 11th Six years after the twin towers fell, 1,036 titles of non-fiction books have been published about September 11, 2001. Here are some of the best books about the terrorist attacks on 9-11. Have you read any other good ones?   Lister: Pratt     Category: Books    Tags: 9-11

List of Top Ten Wizards of All Time

Top 10 Wizards of All Time A wizard is a person with magical powers, or exceptional / extraordinary abilities. But some are more extraordinary than others. So who do you think are the top 10 wizards of all time? (Add 'em to the list) And where does Harry Potter fall?   Lister: Pratt     Category: Everything Else    Tags: Harry Potter

List of Top 10 Books that Should Become Movies

Top 10 Books that Should Become Movies Have you read any other books that should be made into feature films? Add them here:   Lister: AllyTaulbee     Category: Books    Tags: Summer

Who Took the Boo Out of Halloween?

Hey Listers,

I can’t believe it’s been a year since my rant about how Halloween is supposed to be a night of fright, not this funny fools’ day it’s turned into. And I’m still peeved. Why are television stations airing National Lampoon’s Vacation over-and-over again when there are 100s of great scary movies they could show instead?

Instead of watching Michael Myers chop up all the trick-or-treaters in Haddonfield, we get Clark Griswold and family on their “merry” way to Wally World. Yeah there are some deaths (dragging Dinky to death behind the car and Aunt Edna passing in her sleep in the backseat), but they’re funny deaths. And sure Harold Ramis, one of the original Ghostbusters directed it (which by the way is painfully more funny than it is scary), but c’mon! I am looking for horror movies deaths. “Final Destination” meets Jason Voorhees meets “The Hills Have Eyes.” I want to be scared on Halloween! Give me “Halloween” and “Friday the 13^th,” or at least “Nightmare on Elm Street.” Where’s Freddy and Jason and Jigsaw and Chucky? Is AMC the only channel that gets it? Or have all the funny, cute little Halloween costumes distorted all our “fragile little minds.”

I have a favor to ask of you. Instead of giving treats to every trick-or-treater this year, reward the scary skeletons and ugly witches. Give the gobstoppers to goblins, ghosts and ghouls. And trick those funny, cute kids with an apple or toothbrush.

And any of you trick-or-treaters out there, let’s get back to the roots of Beggar’s Night. Remember the history behind the tradition, if someone forgets the treats, or leaves a “please take one” basket out, make sure you play an idle trick on the house or the homeowners. That is what the saying is all about. “Trick-or-Treat!”

Lists Hidden in This Newsletter

LAL Newsletter - Halloween, a Night-of-Fright?

Top 100 Scary Movies of All Time

Memorable Movie Dads

Deaths by Extremely Unusual Causes

Funniest Epitaphs on Tombstones

Top 10 Great Songs from Geeky Movie Soundtracks

Top 10 Gruesome Deaths in Movies

Aghhh! Best Scary Movies Ever

Top 25 Horror Movie Villains

Halloween Costumes Sure to Piss Everyone Off

Top 20 Eric Cartman Quotes (from South Park)

Top 10 Hot New Halloween Costume Ideas for 2008

The 10 Worst Things to Give Out for Trick-or-Treat .

Top 10 Best Halloween Trick-or-Treat Candies

Top 5 Best Pranks Caught on Video

Top 20 Shockingly Chilling and Tense Horror Movies

Playlist: Halloween Songs for a Scary Haunted House Party

Top 10 Gifts for a Star Wars Fan

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A Random Ten Thoughts

Greetings Listers! Have you ever read Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury? How about Kerouac’s On the Road? If so, then you understand the random thoughts of stream of consciousness. If not, let me have the honor of presenting you your first experience – in a milder, easier-to-read format. These are my ten random thoughts: Do you think the most successful people in the world – the Forbes 500 CEOs, the two-time Academy Award winners, the Olympic gold athletes, etc. etc. – are also the world’s morning people, those who love the sound of the alarm, or even wake up before it buzzes, those who wake up, cook breakfast, drink coffee and workout before the golden sun rises? Try and describe a golden sunrise without using a color – you can’t, its impossible - you can’t describe a color without using another color or using an object that is a color, green is green, or green is yellow and blue, or green is a tree, but green is not anything else. Green, the color of money, the color of greed, cheating greedy Forbes 500 CEOs. “Once a cheater always a cheater?” And does cheating on one thing mean he or she will cheat on anything? Does competition breed cheaters, or does a lack of willpower breed cheating, an addiction to cheating? Don’t you wish what you knew now you knew in high school? There is so much more to the world and to the people in this world than you ever managed when being “cool” was the only thing that mattered – but maybe its better being blind, high school was so much easier? Easy isn’t always the best, in fact, the hardest path is usually the best direction to head, but do you think the world’s leaders know this, I mean, they’ve heard the clichés before I’m sure, but do they really understand it? And do you? Don’t you think unless we become a part of some global empire, on a hippie-ish peaceful earth, nuclear weapons will be fired; there will be a nuclear holocaust? It seems inevitable. Won’t the world’s leaders will do “whatever it takes?” Don’t be blind to the tasteless greed. What if the only thing you could drink was milk, water, and the alcohol brewed in a bathtub? How miserable would that have been back-in-the-day? Imagine no soda pop, no Ocean-Spray, no Starbucks, no Budweiser. What would you drink with dinner? What would you drink at work? Work, work, work. What a negative connotation that word has now. A career is something different from work; “career” has a positive feeling, a positive reception from the ears of the opposite sex. But work is something you dread late on weeknights, have to wake up for in the morning, and can’t wait for Friday because of. Friday’s almost here! Maybe I will go see Jessica Alba in “The Eye” – then again, maybe I won’t, it seems like Hollywood’s new horror flick formula is to put a hot actress, a scary little kid with long hair, and some flashes of white faces in the dark, and the movie will be scary. Besides, I saw “Rambo” last Friday and “Lions for Lambs” on Tuesday at the dollar theater, no real urge to dish out real box office prices again so soon. “Rambo” amazing, gory, action-packed, and Sly is a more believable John then you can imagine, thank the HGH fountain of youth. Anyone responsible for the making of “Lions for Lambs” might as well sport a donkey pin on their chest and picket the streets with anti-Bush signs. There is basically a 50% chance a woman or African-American will be the next President of the United States. Bet those people who used to drink alcoholic bathtub concoctions never thought that would happen. Just like the ’72 Dolphins probably thought their undefeated-season record would stand forever. My apologies for another cliché but, “records are made to broken,” and no one understands this as well as the Patriots QB Tom Brady. Do you think he is morning person? Lists Hidden in this Newsletter The links are attached to these lists. o Professor Samuel M. Pratt's Must Read Top 9 List o Books Written in Stream of Consciousness o Forbes 2007 Richest People List o Actors & Actresses Who have Won the Most Academy Awards o Most Olympic Gold Medals Ever o How to be a Morning Person o Famous Facts about the Color Green o Green Celebrities o How to Catch a Cheating Boyfriend o 12 Signs He's Cheating on You o What to Get Your High School Sweetie for V-Day o Coolest Jocks: Not Talking about Hockey Players o Nuclear Weapon Club o Best Diet Soda Pop o Best Beers on Earth o Playlist: T.G.I.F. Songs to Get Work Done o Hottest Jessica on Earth o Most Liberal Movies Ever o Hillary Clinton on the Issues o Obama on the Issues o The Undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins Season o Tom Brady's iPod Playlist Find more lists at ListAfterList.com

Still Resoluting?

Happy New Year Listers! How’s your resolution coming along? You realize it is only day 11 right? Don’t worry, I am not doing so well either. I told myself I wouldn’t be so obsessed with making lists for every little task in my life. You should’ve seen it – there were daily to-do lists, weekly to-do lists, movies to see, music to download, grocery lists, reading lists, lists on my Treo, lists on my fridge, and lists covering my desk. Well, there are still lots of lists but I am not as obsessed with it. Then again, what could I really expect, I do have a pretty influential list-making job. What was your New Year’s Resolution? Were you creative? Or did you choose something generic: to lose 20 pounds, to run 5 miles every week, to read more books, or to quit smoking? Those generic ones are often harder to stick to. Try being creative, instead of a generic diet resolution, try something like only drink soda when you are out to eat, or instead of picking a random resolution out of your favorite fitness magazine, try to find a sport you like (or even a Nintendo Wii game like Wii Sports) and joining a league or playing with friends a few times every week. Don’t just say you’ll read more books; make a list of books you want to read. Just because John and Heather say you should spend less, save more, and watch your debt disappear, doesn’t mean that should be your New Year’s choice. Try to make something fit your lifestyle; for instance, don’t buy a new DVD every Tuesday, or instead of going to Outback for dinner, try grilling out back your home instead. No one else can make your resolution for you. But you can get some very creative ideas from others’ resolutions. And remember, resolutions don’t have to start on January 1st, you can always make willful changes any day of the week, any week during the year.