Lists
IO5M 16: The Top Five Parts of Your Food That Should Not Be Used in Your Cooking
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. Ok, so, I know the Native Americans supposedly used every part of the buffalo, and I know there are starving kids out…
Read MoreIO5M 15: The Top Five Best Pop Songs About “The Dance Floor”
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. As someone who has literally spent 0.006% of his adult life on “Dance Floors,” I noticed recently that I was uncommonly drawn…
Read MoreBest Metal Albums of 2013
I’ve never been one for new albums. Partly because my taste tends to run “old school,” and partly because there is so much older stuff that has withstood the test of time that I still haven’t heard. Still, I thought I might try my hand at making a top ten list for metal releases from…
Read MoreIO5M 14: The Top Five Least Annoying Changes from the Book in The Desolation of Smaug
If you don’t recognize the header image, it’s from xkcd, the best of all webcomics. Check it out! Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. Today I’ll be looking…
Read MoreIO5M 13: The Top 5 Best Currently Running TV Series
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. Today I’ll be looking at my five favorite currently running television series. Everyone says it, but we really are living in a…
Read MoreIO5M 11: The Top 5 Islay Single Malt Scotch Whiskys
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. Today I’ll be looking at some of my all time favorite Scotch whisky from the Scottish island of Islay, the best of all…
Read MoreIsley Reviews the 2012 Oscar nominees (plus best movies of 2012 list!)
Here we are on year four of me actually watching all the shitty best picture nominations so you don’t have to. And you know what? They are actually getting better, there was only really one movie that made me dry heave this year, and that was for mostly ideological reasons, so I’m going to go…
Read MoreIO5M 10: The Top Five Most Annoying Changes from the Book in the New Hobbit Movie
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. This time, I go all nerd RAEG on some of the most glaring “historical” inaccuracies in the new Hobbit movie. 5.…
Read MoreIO5M 9: The Top Five Worst James Bond Theme Songs
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. This time, in honor the the impending release of the new Bond movie Skyfall, and its rather good theme song, I take…
Read MoreIO5M 9: The Top Five Most Ridiculous Examples of Cheating at the Summer Olympics
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. Today, in honor of the Summer Olympics, I’ll take a look as some of the most outrageous examples of cheating shenanigans in…
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