The 50 Greatest Things in the World

Taking a page from blogger, professor, and A.V. Clubber extraordinaire Donna Bowman, I now present my 2008 Archies: a definitive list of The 50 Greatest Things in the World.

1. Fresh apples at The Fillmore
2. Nate Silver‘s brain
3. The Elements of Style
4. Television’s Marquee Moon
5. The 0.25 mm Pigma Micron
6. Google Reader
7. We Are Campfire T-shirts
8. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
9. House of Prime Rib
10. The Criterion Collection
11. Ork Posters
12. Michael Lewis (especially this)
13. 30 Rock
14. The Castro Theatre
15. Molly Lambert‘s stunning prose
16. Boston.com’s The Big Picture blog
17. Philz Coffee
18. FanGraphs.com
19. The Tampa Bay Rays
20. New Balance 992s
21. Burritos from Papalote
22. The American Red Cross
23. Back-to-back episodes of Frasier on Lifetime
24. del.icio.us bookmarks
25. Super Saver Shipping
26. WNYC’s On The Media
27. Rod Stewart’s Every Picture Tells a Story
28. John Lithgow
29. Roasted garlic hummus
30. Thelma Schoonmaker
31. Kate Winslet burning a hole in my soul
32. The Hold Steady
33. Chase Utley’s defense
34. This American Life
35. Patton Oswalt
36. Shaq on Twitter
37. The young Eddie Murphy‘s Richard Pryor impression
38. Weezy F Baby on Rap City
39. Downtown Brown
40. Sunbeam Heated Mattress Pads
41. Sly & The Family Stone
42. Sennheiser HD-555s
43. Generation Kill
44. DRM-free MP3 albums for $1.99
45. AT&T Park
46. Roger Ebert ripping Ben Stein a new one
47. Michael Chabon’s Maps and Legends
48. The 16 GB iPhone
49. Golden Gate Park
50. Rex Sorgatz’s List of Lists

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