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Don’t Buy: Air Guitar

Air guitar is the act of pretending to play an imaginary guitar. From my personal experience, air guitarists rock out when alcohol is involved. Air guitar is a pretty useless and harmless dance that, in recent years, has gone too far.
How can you take something like this, something so not serious, and make it serious? [...]

Don’t Buy: Animal Headlines

A four-eared cat and a two-headed turtle
Bigfoothunt
Whale euthanasia
Monkey in a train station
Long Island Monster
A crow and a kitten?? Get out of town.

YouTube counts as headlines, right?
Because breaking news:

Keep watching and you can see the cameraman pet some of them.

Buy: Joe Biden

HOWEVER!
Don’t Buy: Joe Biden as VP Candidate
So like everyone in the cyberspaces is all buzz buzz about Joe Biden. This JUST HAPPENED, like, within the last 5 minutes. He’s apparently the blogosphere front runner to be Barack Obama’s VP candidate.
I like Joe Biden. On a personal level. He’s like the [...]

Buy: Muxtapes

Muxtapes are more or less digital mixtapes. Users can add about two dozen songs at a time and they are free to listen to. When I first heard of digital mixtapes, I just rolled my eyes and vowed never to visit that site.
That was until a friend of mine sent me a link and told [...]

Buy: Tropic Thunder (General Review)

This is an interesting movie review in that it is tailored to this website. By the nature of BODB, the review must either be a Buy or a Don’t Buy…no percentage or letter system. And I think that suits reviews better in general. No longer do you need to question seeing a movie that got [...]

Buy: Cyberspace for Justice!

Long story short: This guy reversed a Paypal transaction on me after coming to pick up a chair I had sold him via Craigslist. I sued him and won, but he still refused to pay me, or even return my e-mails. So I created a Facebook page about how he owes me [...]

Don’t Buy: Reverse Race-Card-ism

A couple weeks ago there was a big hullabaloo when Barack Obama made the following remarks on the campaign trail:
Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, ‘he’s not patriotic enough, he’s [...]

Buy: Edited Retroscripting

Rather than suffer you through an Apatow Improv Don’t Buy, I thought I’d stay positive with a Jon Benjamin/Jonathan Katz tribute. The duo is best known for their Dr Katz and Ben father/son relationship in Dr Katz, Professional Therapist. More recently, you may remember them from such shows as Home Movies Seasons 1, 2, [...]

Buy: Car Navigation Systems

Just today I was driving down St. Charles Ave when I said to myself, “Dude, I could totally go for a burrito right now.” (Yes, I called myself “dude.”) Suddenly I realized that my shiny new GPS navigation system could easily tell me the nearest burrito place. With a few taps of the touch-screen, I [...]

Don’t Buy: Movie Studio Greed

I’m going to admit this up front: I LOVE HARRY POTTER. I am currently about 200 pages into rereading the 7th book (for the THIRD TIME). I’m also currently reading the 2nd book in French. I beat an 8-year-old at Harry Potter Scene It, on multiple occasions. I. Love. Motherfucking. Harry Potter.
So feel free to imagine [...]