Buy Or Don’t Buy

Imagine walking down the street with your cool iPhone because you are already cool for having one, and bam! right there you realize that ad by the bus stop wants to play with you? What do you do? Do you coyly start pinching and swiping your fingers to manipulate/tickle it? Or shyly wait and watch [...]

Sundays are usually spent looping old movie trailers (from 2001’s Sweet November ["Redemption's not for sale today."] to 1992’s Home Alone 2 [Chris Columbus' best?]).
But what better way to spend 4:21 than watching RomCom movie stills set to wordless Evanescence-inspired tunes? I tried searching for the promotional preview of Alicia Silverstone’s swansong, Excess Baggage, and [...]

We’ve all seen the commercials where the Mac-Monster (Justin Long) is putting down the little weak computer company made for moms - Dell (John Hodgman). But in case you live in a marketing void, here’s an example:

Proving that Dell IS your mom’s PC, they have fought dry humor with over-the-top-slow-motion-swooning. Watch now as Ajay Bhatt [...]

American Apparel in semi-recent months (aka the past 2 years) has become popular. Thier overpriced basically plain cotton and spandex clothing have been dubbed “hipster”, therefore making them cool and desirable.
So with that classification, why this:

Ekk. So cool = pregnancy? Since when does tight clothes help with pregnancy. I don’t want to see it. These [...]

Julia and Sly sat outside the United Avalon theaters and asked Tammy to hold up her dress and shoes she bought for MORP. The name might have been backwards, to prevent middle schoolers from drinking, but everything else about Friday’s dance was definitely forwards: girls asking the guys to dance, new clothes, new weather, new [...]

I can’t decide how I feel about this movie. I know nothing about it except what I saw in the trailer. Let me know what you think:

Pros:

Great cast
thought provoking
A probably slightly funny coming-of-age movie
will probably make me cry

Cons:

Trite
Depressing
Wrong dose of quirkiness?

Details:
Hitting theaters June 11th, 2009. It has the Office’s John Krasinski (humor cred), Jim Gaffigan [...]

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 [...]

Adding some nerd enthusiasm makes anything better. Movies, books, television shows, phones. Throw in some obsession and let the freak fan flag fly!
The latest nerd infused project? The Watchmen. Graphic novel turned motion picture is due to hit theaters 03.06.09. (That’s even a mathematical equation! How nerdy!) What I like most about these kinds of [...]

I don’t want to only rag on Star Trek but they are making it very difficult for me. They already sell everything in creation. But now, YOU CAN SMELL LIKE STAR TREK! I’m pretty sure that may be the most sexually unappealing smell of all time. I am curious what this will smell like. I [...]

Hey guys, you know MacGruber, right? The intermittently-funny recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live where Will Forte plays an incompetent version of MacGyver?

Wouldn’t those be great to turn into ads? Like, if the reason MacGruber was so incompetent was because he liked this one product so much! You could write that, make Will Forte be [...]