I am so totally stoked that Consumerist was bought. And by Consumers Union, no less.
I’ve always been a fan of Consumer Reports; I subscribed to Zillions as a kid, which helped turn me into the cynical cheapskate savvy consumer you all know and love today.
This is my parents’ new apartment size tree. I never ended up getting one for my house; it never really felt like Christmas so I didn’t see the point. I used to put my one-foot tree on top of the bookshelf, where I keep Steve the betta fish now, but I didn’t even get that out.
We …
Mom: Do you watch any TV when it’s actually on?
Me: Why would I want to do that? Then I’d have to watch commercials.
“There Are Much Worse Things To Believe In“
by David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger — performed by Elvis Costello and Stephen Colbert
There are cynics, there are skeptics
There are legions of dispassionate dyspeptics
Who regard this time of year as a maudlin insincere
Cheesy crass commercial travesty of all that we hold dear
When they think that
Well, I can hear …
I can stop ANY TIME I WANT.
From my last.fm log, from which you can probably glean an alarming amount of information about me.
I can’t sleep, so I’m going to talk about my doggie.
Maggie has allergies. We’re not sure what she’s allergic to, since it used to get worse in the summer but now it’s pretty constant. I maintain that it may be something in her food. She’s doomed if it’s humans. They switched her food to whatever …
Okay. This might require a little background if you’re not familiar with the Forever Leather Man.
Forever Leather is a locally owned store at Sangertown Square mall in New Hartford (near Utica) NY. They may also have a location at Riverside mall; I don’t live there anymore and I don’t really care.
It sells, logically, things …
I missed mentioning this even remotely close to the date, which was probably late November, but a happy first birthday to my oldest hamster, Dreamsicle.
I brought her home in January 2008, and found her sweet and cuddly, but very shy. I didn’t know that she had eight (eight!) adorable and incredibly inbred passengers along with …
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