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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, [...]

Buy: Point Break

Sorry, for the short posts. Really busy! Enjoy this!
This was made for mean magazine. Called cine-mashes features a bunch of different “mashes” with classics.
It might be the best parody of point break I’ve ever seen. Features some of Human Giant (Ansari and Huebel) and some of Reno 911 (Grant and Lennon). Gotta love Huebel’s Busey!
Only [...]

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 [...]

Buy Or Don’t Buy: The Past Two Weeks

Another QuickHits edition!
Don’t Buy: The Jonas Brother Engagement — This is what happens when you make a 21-year-old wear a promise ring.
Buy: Sarah Palin’s Resignation — Two reasons: 1) She went out on top with a resignation speech that was full of the folksy sports metaphors and rhetorical nonsensicals that make a Palin speech a [...]

Buy: Vampire Battles

You know how the media finds one quote and blows it out of proportion? Well, that’s what I am going to do here.
Stephen Moyer who plays the lame, “responsible” vampire on HBO’s True Blood had this to say about Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight vampire star Robert Patterson:
He’s a pussy! He’s the Slim-Fast, Diet Coke of vampires.
Awesome! [...]

Don’t Buy: “Hiding” Pregnant Bellies

2009 hasn’t been a huge year for celebrity babies, at least none on the level of a Shiloh or a Suri. But that doesn’t mean some celebs haven’t been gettin’ huge with babies. If you are even a casual viewer of Gossip Girl or How I Met Your Mother, you are already fully aware [...]

Buy: Timberlake

I’m not ashamed to admit it… I own both Justin Timberlake solo albums and I enjoy them.  Guilty pleasure I guess.
In case you don’t know he hosted SNL last Saturday and the results were expected. Very entertaining.
The obvious highlight is “mother lover.” He teams up with Samberg for a digital short that brings them back [...]

BODB: Gossip Girl Launched Music Careers?

It’s already fairly well-known that Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick in the real world) has a music “career“. But, he’s Chuck Bass and is allowed to do whatever he wants. And he’s secretly British.
But how about “Lil J” aka Taylor Momsen. She is in a band called Pretty Reckless (ugh). She sings. She’s also 16. I’m [...]

Don’t Buy: Josh Gad

I don’t watch The Daily Show very often, not because I don’t like it but because I just don’t think about it very much.  But now that I’m settling into the life of an Unemployed Recent College Graduate, and now that it’s raining every single damn day, I find myself with little to do but think [...]

Buy: AplusK = Twitter caché

Apparently Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) has been doing the Twitter thing for a while now.  I must admit, I was previously influenced by my interpretation of his personal brand as America’s Zany Prankster Bro, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the topics he Tweets about! He’s a big proponent of Social Media, and has actually been doing some fun [...]