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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 [...]

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: Officially Made Fan Videos

You know those videos on Youtube that are either created by tweens girls or horny boys? The videos are usually a mash up of clips of the show put to a cheesy emotional pop ballad, or just montage of some chick looking hot. And these videos have a place, that place is youtube. Youtube is [...]

Don’t Buy: Beer 4 Baby

The latest parental appalling horror comes from the BBC:
A man has been arrested in California after allegedly arranging for his 14-year-old daughter to marry a neighbour in exchange for beer, meat and $16,000.
Really? C’mon. Selling your daughter for beer? That’s worst than the incestory story line of Gossip Girl!
The man has a defense. He is [...]

Don’t Buy: Lily and Rufus: The Series

Speaking of 1980s cesspool New York: Star Magazine, that bastion of journalistic integrity, has the exclusive deets on the oft-rumored Gossip Girl spinoff. And no, we won’t be following young Jenny Humphrey to boarding school (which I always said would never happen anyway, because everybody hates Jenny.)
No, the true premise of the spinoff is [...]

Buy: Watching ‘Gossip Girl’ with the Sound Off

Before tonight, I didn’t know anything about ‘Gossip Girl’, except for the fact that it had something to do with a young woman who enjoys idle tattling. I had also heard that it is a mind-blowingly inappropriate and nasty piece of work that makes its viewers sit up and exclaim “OMFG“.  As my intellectual curiosity [...]

Don’t Buy: Cashing in with Girly Video Games

So nerd culture is on the rise. Look at half of the posts on BODB - they are pretty frickin’ nerdy. And that’s not an insult, because this is the coolest website the web has ever seen! Anyways, nerdom and geekery tend to be focused on their main audience, men (or are they boys?) [...]