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Don’t Buy: Marmaduke

So the comic itself sucks. So why is it a movie?

Here are some general rules:
- The only talking dog should be Scooby.
- There shouldn’t be any doggy dancing scenes.
- The only surfing animal should be this:

Buy: Pointing Out Things That Are Similar

This past weekend’s episode of SNL was just alright, but it did include this funny parody of home security systems ads:

However, it would have been even funnier if Sara hadn’t shown me this clip from Target Women six months ago:

Obviously it’s not fair to assume that Saturday Night Live stole the sketch; Target Women, after [...]

Don’t Buy: The Law of Unintended Pop Cultural Consequences

Or, “How A Cliché Changes Its Usage, In Five Easy Steps”
I: Status Quo
November 4, 2005:
What’s more important: talent, coaching, or swagger? These quotes may help you decide. Each tells us something important about that magical gait.
[...] FOX’s Adam Schein, on the Cowboys’ rout of the Eagles a month ago: “Finally, swagger and aggressiveness from the [...]

Don’t Buy: Kurt Cobain today!

We get it. Kurt Cobain was an icon. He was a major player in the grunge movement and proponent of teenage angst back in the 1990s. But he’s dead. He died back ‘94. But for some reason, people keep doing things to his memory that just… miss the point of “who he was.”
The latest: Kurt [...]

Don’t Buy: Annoying Made Up Holidays

It is apparently “Talk in Third Person Day.”
No.
If you do this, I will first lose respect for you then despise you for the rest of the month.

Don’t Buy: Children Pop Star Imitations

I don’t like children. I like them even less when they do things for attention and admiration. And when they perform in costumes to adult-themed songs, just forget about it.
Enjoy. Or not.
Portuguese Lady Gaga:

6 year-old Ke$ha

Parents? Where are you?

Buy: Have One On Me, Joanna Newsom

I first realized I liked Joanna Newsom when I listened to “Colleen” and thought it sounded a lot like Kate Bush; I first realized I loved Joanna Newsom when I looked up the lyrics to “Colleen” and discovered it was about a woman in Victorian England coming to grips with the fact that she used [...]