Buy Or Don’t Buy

Unlike most of the shows it shares a network with, ABC Family’s “10 Things I Hate About You” is good, clean and fun*, a 30-minute bubble-bath of squeaky shiny teens and their squeaky shiny problems.
*A roundup: “Greek” is good and fun, but hardly clean; “Ruby and the Rockets” is clean and fun, but never good; [...]

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 [...]

Going off Nate’s previous post, what is going on with this commercial?

Is the cat food laced with LSD? Cat ladies, why do you want your cat to go on a magical adventure without you? Are cats more pure than humans, being that this cat has an opportunity to go on a murderous buffet and doesn’t?
Basically, [...]

The most offensive part of my day is undoubtedly the 30 seconds I spend walking through the parade of advertising that is the 47-50th Street subway station. For the past few months the ads in this station have been exclusively for the little-seen and little-loved Spike-TV comedy “Blue Mountain State.” Most of them are offensive [...]

I owe Jay Leno an apology. For much of my life I’ve thought of him as a complacent old hack on the wrong side of history, with nothing better to do than spent his time telling humorless and mean-spirited jokes to an audience that thinks predictability breeds hilarity. I was making the cardinal sin of [...]

Last April in Comedy class I was given the task of performing a five-minute stand-up comedy routine. Being the groundbreaking envelope-pusher that I am, i was determined to fill my five minutes with what i deemed ‘anti-comedy’: jokes that were so purposefully unfunny that they circled back around to become funny again.
But as I performed [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]