Buy Or Don’t Buy

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Buy Or Don’t Buy: This Week

Another QuickHits edition: Because why write paragraphs when you can write sentences?
Don’t Buy: NBC - This is getting sad. Jeff Zucker: To paraphrase Kanye, you need to run your business like you have some type of respect for yourself.
Don’t Buy: The Facebook Bra Meme - I am Facebook friends with my mom and my grandma [...]

Don’t Buy: Sports in 3D

Hey, remember when “Avatar” made lots of money? Let’s use that as an opportunity to learn all the wrong lessons!
From USA Today:
This week, ESPN announced plans to launch an all-sports 3D [television] network on June 11, starting with World Cup soccer and eventually including the Summer X Games (extreme sports) and college basketball and college [...]

Don’t Buy: Cartoon Characters With Attitude

Readers, there are many times in life where you will find yourself presented with a total information overload. The next one minute and 49 seconds will be like that for you:

Where can we even begin to reckon with this? It’s best to start by eliminating the obvious. I’m not going to tread the well-worn path [...]

Buy: Close-Ups

Jim Emerson, editor of RogerEbert.com and proprietor of the wonderful film blog Scanners, has been re-uploading his video essays to a new server and in the process bringing them to my mind after a long absence. His best so far is this “free association dream sequence” from October 2007 centered around the theme of close-ups:

close-up [...]

Don’t Buy: Dudes in Jewelry Commercials

I get it. You’re a sweet and caring dude who loves giving presents to his girlfriend. Nothing wrong with that. But do you have to be so weird about it?

“I’m right here….and I always will be.” Good effort, I guess. Shows that you’re loyal and that you can come up with some quick quips. But [...]

Buy Or Don’t Buy: Domestic Violence

(I’m probably going to sound like one of those lame men’s rights groups in this post, but try to imagine me looking more like (:-/ and less like >:-o when you picture me reading it aloud.)
I’m going to assume that everyone knows the Tiger Woods story right now. If you don’t, read this right here. [...]

Don’t Buy: Kanye Memes

I’ve been very busy lately, so I’ve had no choice but to have today’s post ghostwritten by a Foppish Victorian Dandy with a prejudice against gypsies. My apologies for the oversight.
Heavens! The events of recent days have proven to me most distressful! Lest you be IGNORANT, I shall tell the tale:
A young Gibson girl of [...]

Buy: Playing The Beatles Backwards

It was a nice surprise that this week turned out to be the week of Beatlestravaganza, when everyone took a break from talking about things we disagree on (mostly health care with fantasy football a close second) to talk about one thing we all agree on (The Beatles.)
But luckily, even with the canonical Best Band [...]

Buy: Snuggie Designer Series

If it already hasn’t, the blogosphere is going to go nuts over this. But you saw it here first!

In other posts I’ve written, the ‘Buy’ has been purely figurative. Not here. I know my roommate is firmly on the side of the Slanket*, but this one can be a throw blanket and comes in leopard, [...]

Don’t Buy: Pennsylvanians

It used to be that you could always count on Pennsylvanians to be pretty high-quality people. Benjamin Franklin, Betsy Ross, Winfield Scott Hancock, John Oates, Andrew Bryniarski, Liza Weil: credits to the Keystone State all. (Sadly, for some reason the only people the Pennsylvania magic has not extended to are US Presidents.)
But two popular stories [...]