Katy B. - Economic Inexpert

06 Feb 2011

Getting Your Crap Home from the Red Hook Ikea

The only problem with furnishing your entire apartment with stuff from the Ikea – apart from the fact that when you move and take apart your furniture you will definitely lose 30% of the screws and bolts necessary to put these items back together, and will need to go back

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23 Jan 2011

FREE Viewing of Spike Jonze’s “Tell Them Anything You Want”

Maurice Sendak seems like he’d be a cool person to hang out with at his house in Connecticut with his German Shepherd, Herman, just like, drinking wine and listening to him complain about people. I can see why Spike Jonze made a documentary about him. It sounds like Sendak is

Katy B. - Economic Inexpert 0
17 Jan 2011

Post-weekend Detox With $1 Jamba Juice

Sometimes, on the weekends, your body can become a repository for whiskey, cigarettes, and Tombstone frozen pizzas, WHICH, good lord, I recently discovered contain a total of 80 grams of fat per pizza, if you get the pepperoni one. I am not necessarily opposed to consuming that much fat in

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09 Jan 2011

FREE Svedka for “Being Human” Series Premiere

If the Twilight series has taught us anything, and it has clearly taught us so, so much, it is that being a sexy vampire or werewolf is a terrible hardship that ironically gets you no sex whatsoever. Unless of course you’re a happily married vampire — then you can have

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19 Dec 2010

FREE Burgers at FoodParc if You Own A Tron Costume and Are Willing To Wear It In Public

If you already own a Tron costume, let’s face it: you’re getting laid pretty much… never, so you might as well be upfront about this fact and utilize your Tron costume in what it can help you get, which is a FREE combo meal at FoodParc, including cheeseburger, fries, and

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12 Dec 2010

Watch Polar Bears Unwrap Presents at the Central Park Zoo

Fact I just learned about polar bears, from David Attenborough: apparently their sense of smell is so acute that they can detect a baby seal under the ice from a MILE AWAY. That is ridiculous. And I think it means that the Central Park polar bear must be constantly tormented

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05 Dec 2010

Ride the Vintage Holiday Trains With Your Metro Card

Most of the year, I despise the MTA with an enthusiasm that I reserve for only the most putrid members of our society, like skeazy guys who catcall and expect you to be appreciative, and Rupert Murdoch. This hatred is for the usual, obvious reasons of fare hikes and the

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