Buy Or Don’t Buy

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Don’t Buy: Matthew Goode and Malin Akerman

Like many fanboys, I saw Watchmen last night. (SPOILER WARNING: I liked it.) I’ve read and understand a lot of the criticisms or it, but I pretty much expected the omnipresent slo-mo, and I actually enjoyed Zach Snyder’s musical shorthand (”The Times They Are A-Changing,” “Hello Darkness My Old Friend” and “Hallelujah” ) as a [...]

Buy: The Recessionist

Come to Fabulous New York City, where even our bums have Ivy League educations!
Hail a taxi cab driven by a former banker who used to pull six figures a year.  Now he’s pulling his lunch cooler off the front seat so that your little brother has a place to sit.  Shoulda waited for a minivan [...]

Don’t Buy: Beautiful Snow Creatures

 Now, the usual rule of thumb is that winter is an excuse to be ugly. Especially in the past few days, it’s bitterly cold, it’s windy and no one sees you under bundles and bundles of clothes. So, girls, only feel a little guilty about adorning Ugg boots; and boys, hat hair is acceptable. Unfortunate [...]

Don’t Buy: Quirk

Scene: A family, ripped literally in half by divorce (he LITERALLY ripped his head off!), sits around a dining room table. The catch? The father works in latex, the family is kosher, and they keep half their silverware in condoms.

No wait–too dirty/unPC. The mother only speaks around words from her word-a-day calendar, and the daughter [...]

Buy: Gucci

Toto, I’m not in college anymore.

Buy: Snow

I don’t care if it blocks the roads. I don’t care if it makes everything icy. I don’t care if my boyfriend “unintentionally” hits me in the ear with a snowball. I LOVE SNOW!!! It’s PRETTY!!!!!!

Yeah. I’m prettttttty sure I just blew your mind.