RE: Today Is the Last Day of Voting for the 2023 Pajiba 10

EDIT: The results. Selected in bold.

For the few of you who may not be familiar, this is a fun exercise we do every year. Our readers vote for our version of the most beautiful person in the world, although our list tends to give equal weight to a person’s intelligence, wit, and general attractiveness. Your outliers might not make the Pajiba 10, but slowly and surely, a consensus builds around ten wonderful people each year, ten celebrities, sports figures, podcasters, or even politicians about whom the Pajiba staff is ultimately compelled to write glowing things.

Here’s how it works, and please pay attention to the instructions because it makes it much, much easier to tally the votes (no one ever pays attention to the instructions, but I’ll make an effort, anyway). You all will compile your own TEN Freebies lists —- the TEN people with whom your significant other would allow a free pass (if you don’t have a free pass or a significant other, just pretend). Please use the names they go by (instead of nicknames). You will list them in a comment. That’s it!

Voting for this began on December 22 and ended on December 29. I luckily got my vote in on December 27 but because I haven’t been posting anything on time as of late, here is my picks the day after voting ended.

That’s a 2024 problem though.

Still, I encourage you to check out the Pajiba 10, Pajiba as a whole, and I’ll update this post when the winners are announced.

Simu Liu
Sterling K Brown
John Cho
Lenny Kravitz
Ncuti Gatwa

Hannah Waddingham
Tracee Ellis Ross
Margot Robbie
Natasha Lyonne
Ali Wong

RE: We’re Giving You Half a Billion Dollars to Spend on Pop Culture. Don’t F*ck It Up.

Heather sent me this as I was leaving Friday. I gave it a quick glance and knew I had to read the whole thing in it’s entirety. It was more than a pleasant surprise when I opened it up this morning considering I’m sleepy and fighting an oncoming cold.

The premise is simple: You have 500,000,000.00 “to spend on whatever entertainment properties you choose”. The only catch? 1. That’s it’s fictional. 2. You have to spend it all. The comments section on Pajiba is filled with all kinds of ideas so of course I had to take my shot at it.

Feel free to chime in but beware: I am fully and readily prepared to debate your ideas ad nauseum. Also, I didn’t think too hard on the budgets so I don’t wanna hear that something isn’t enough money. Money is money dammit.

  • $200 M – A big screen adaptation of Spider-Man: Kraven’s Last Hunt
  • $45 M – Renew Better Off Ted on Netflix
  • $45 M – A final season of My Name Is Earl
  • $35 M – Film based on the Granite Mountain Hotshots which I just read about in my GQ from 2013 this morning
  • $35 M – Finance the big screen adaptation of my friend Derrick’s first Dillon book, Dillon And The Voice Of Odin
  • $30 M – One more true final season of 24
  • $20 M – A buddy comedy starring Donald Faison and Zach Braff
  • $20 M – 1 more season of Backstrom
  • $20 M – An Emma Stone/Jennifer Lawrence film
  • $20 M – Jenny Slate/Zach Galifianakis action comedy
  • $15 M – A sequel to the 1995 Super Nintendo game Chrono Trigger in the exact same 16-bit style with new tech where necessary for all gaming systems
  • $15 M – An Indiana Jones animated series
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