827. Ubik

Did you know that Philip K. Dick's middle name is Kindred?

826. American Progress

825. Lose Yourself

I'm too lazy to link to the song, but you know it. It's the one about how much he likes his mom's spaghetti.

824. Aladdin (the Disney version)

Fun fact: In the original story, Aladdin is Chinese.

823. Andes Mints

I don't know why they're so delicious, but they are. Did you know they're made by Tootsie Roll Industries, best known for the unbearably chewy Tootsie Rolls, Dots, and Sugar Daddies?

822. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

An allegorical treatment of the problems of high school interpreted as physical monsters. Also, if you watch until the end of the first season you can see the lead vampire get impaled right in the posterior.

821. The Shining

Too scary for me, but I'll take everyone's word for it that it's better than that scene in Ferris Bueller.

820. The Owl and the Pussycat

Okay, so the poem doesn't really make any sense, but it does have a nice rhythm to it.

819. Polynesia, The Sky

818. Two Bottles of Relish

We've been watching a lot of Bones lately, so here's a short story that I'm surprised the Bones writers haven't used for a plot yet.

817. The Burj Khalifa

The current tallest building in the world. (Take that, Sears Tower that's no longer called the Sears Tower!)

816. Day Tripper

815. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

814. The totem pole

813. Graceland

812. Ansel Adams's Yosemite Photographs

811. Julius Caesar

Beware the Ides of March!

810. Candle in the Wind

809. Reeling for the Empire

A short story that explores the topic of worker exploitation through the premise of women metamorphosing into silkworms. For the moment, you can listen to it on the Selected Shorts website or podcast.

808. The Louvre Pyramid

If you believe Dan Brown, the Holy Grail is hidden under the pyramid, or something like that. I don't really remember. But the book had such short chapters! It really made you feel like you were making progress!

807. Angels We Have Heard on High

Wikipedia says it best:

"Glo-o-o-o-o-O-o-o-o-o-O-o-o-o-o-O-ri-a in Ex-cel-sis De-o!"

806. The non-terrible version of Also Sprach Zarathustra

Nearly two years ago, I cited the terrible version. Here's a good recording.

805. In Cold Blood

While we're on the topic of Truman...

804. The Truman Show

The movie that made thousands of people irrationally believe they were secretly being filmed for a popular television program.

803. The Fifth Element

802. What a Diff'rence a Day Made

Listen here.

801. The Chalky White Substance

Tennessee Williams, despite the levity of his name, is not a cheery fellow. In this one-act play, the origin of the eponymous chalky white substance is left slightly ambiguous, but the likeliest explanation is nuclear fallout.

800. King Lear

This has been the latest installment of Shakespeare on the 100s.

799. The Golden Compass

The subsequent books in the series got a bit preachy. It was like an atheist version of The Chronicles of Narnia.

798. The Ambassadors

That painting with the weird skull on the bottom.

797. Pokémon Red

But not blue. Mankey and Ekans are clearly superior to Meowth and Sandshrew.