Buy Or Don’t Buy

Sally sized up the mid-morning crowd at Starbucks and approached a gray-haired man at the butt end of the line. He seemed to be scaling the two varieties of yogurt and granola, one peach and raspberry, the other strawberry and banana, with his hands, as if determining which weighed more. “Sir,” she said, tapping him [...]

Find me one person who said they didn’t enjoy Ghostbusters. Everyone loved that movie. Me and you included, if my logic is correct.
On the same line of reasoning as why I am taking a don’t buy stance (as of now) on Ghostbusters 3, (rumors that Seth Rogan will be starring) I am all for the [...]

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In the next week or so Obama is going to be naming his Energy advisor-people for his administration. The current concensus/rumor is that Dr. Steven Chu, a physicist from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with a Nobel Prize under his belt, will be named Energy Secretary. This is an actual Buy, [...]

Speaking of 1980s cesspool New York: Star Magazine, that bastion of journalistic integrity, has the exclusive deets on the oft-rumored Gossip Girl spinoff. And no, we won’t be following young Jenny Humphrey to boarding school (which I always said would never happen anyway, because everybody hates Jenny.)
No, the true premise of the spinoff is [...]

It’s that time of the year when the weather is dropping and all the eligible boys and girls are disappearing, or so it seems…
Hibermating*, or mating for the sake of hibernation, is the civilized world’s equivalent of cavemen bonking women over the head with a club and dragging them to their caves for the long [...]

Since Hillary Clinton is going to the State Department, someone needs to take her Senate seat, For some reason Caroline Kennedy’s name has come up. As a result, Richard Bradley at Slate decided to write a wonderfully random heavy-handed takedown of Caroline the likes of which I haven’t seen since Jonathan Chait drove through Delaware.
I [...]

Coincidentally, from my real job:
Like so many other hardworking Americans, Haley Joel Osment just lost his job.
[...]During the jam-packed month-long rehearsal period, Osment said the threesome bonded over election-fever. Though he believes they worked as hard as they could in the abbreviated rehearsal period, Osment said with a sheepish laugh that the middling reviews made [...]

Did you know that Heath Ledger died? People, including me, are still very sensitive about it. But his death has left two different doors open for advertisers and marketers. First, you have the “he was involved with it, so it must be good” method, which, eh, fine. And then there is the “He’s dead, we [...]

Rather than holding the pickles, Burger King finds itself being asked to hold “the world’s purest taste test” as criticism mounts for its most recent advertising campaign, in which the burger maker is conducting an epic search for the Whopper ® Virgins of the world in hopes of finding an unbiased answer to that age [...]