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Don’t Buy: Newspaper Commercials

Last night as I was eating mac & cheese and eagerly awaiting the return of Gossip Girl*, I settled on Jeopardy! for my pre-GG entertainment. Generally I think of Jeopardy! as a great place for Old People commercials. Since the only people still reading actual newspapers are old, this still holds. But [...]

Don’t Buy: Ironic Action Remakes

I’m talking about those television shows and movies that were totally “rad” back in the day that had explosives and a lack of plot. It’s already been rumored that the A-Team might be made ironically as a frat-bro comedy. But today’s post is focusing on MacGyver.
While half the nation cringed as MacGruber, a MacGyver-like character, [...]

Buy: Adding a non-hot weirdo into Twilight Sequel

You may remember me saying that I was excited that Drew Barrymore may be the director to Twilight’s New Moon movie adaptation. Just as a refresher, the first movie was lol-able. It was garbage but still a so-called phenomenon. So, I want them to get worse and worse and more and more indirectly funny. So, [...]

Buy: A Weird, Sad Sense of Nostalgia

Remember this?

Well, Miley Cyrus wrote a book about her 16 year life expeience in a memoir called Miles To Go. And this is the cover.

Woahhhhhhhh
Woahhhhhhhhhh-woahhhh

Image Sources: People, Disney Society

Buy: The Hitler meme

The 2004 German film Downfall [Der Untergang] was an unflinching look at Hitler’s final days that sparked a national debate in its home country over of its humanizing depiction of the Fuhrer. You’ve probably seen it - or at least, you’ve probably seen clips of it. For in the United States one scene from the [...]

Buy: American Idol is Canceled

As you know, I watch garbage on TV. Utter garbage. Rock of Love, Gossip Girl, PBS… you get the idea. But one piece of garbage I never got behind was American Idol.
It was cool that they use texting to involve the whole country, sure, that was new and cool. But now it’s old and [...]

Buy: Survey Says America Becoming Less Christian

“…one nation, UNDER GOD, with liberty and justice for all”
So, my family used to be Catholic, right? Every Sunday it was a huge struggle to wrangle the entire family into their Sunday best and make the march up the street to St. Stephens. Such a struggle, that apparently sometimes my dad wouldn’t even [...]

Don’t Buy: “Look at this, it’s different” Fashion

Now, in no way, shape or form am I the epitome of fashion. But, this is Buy or Don’t Buy! You don’t need to understand or be an expert to pass judgment.
Apparently, two-toned lips are all the rage in, where else but, France.

I like color. In fact, I am taking a class this semester on [...]

BUY: Watchmen graphic novel….THEN see the movie, if you just can’t resist…(at the very least for Haley’s Rorschach performance)

Let me go ahead and warn everybody right now…I am a huge fan of the Watchmen graphic novel, so, this is a review coming from someone who has been anxiously awaiting this movie for the past few years. I’ll do my best to critique for the uninitiated as well, but, seeing as how I can’t [...]

Buy: Random empty busses

You know how sometimes you’re cold hard chllin in Red Hook, and you’re kinda drunk but you know the general direction you need to walk to get back towards civilization?  Well we were almost to that point tonight when we stumbled upon an empty bus.  This was no ordinary empty bus, it was an empty [...]