Zhu Zhu for you

by Mir | Jun 24, 2010 | For the kids, Hot Hot Hot!

Hey, remember over the holidays when everyone wanted Zhu Zhu Pets stuff and everywhere was sold out? I still don’t understand what the lure is about having animatronic hamsters. Er, gerbils. Er, rodents of some sort, but whatever. I’m not a little kid. If...

Worry’s for another daaa-aa-aay

by Mir | Jun 24, 2010 | For the kids, Hot Hot Hot!

Let the music play! Down at Fraggle Rock! Ah, memories. Fortunately, today’s Amazon Gold Box deal lets me relive my childhood devotion to all things muppet, because today they have the entire series of Fraggle Rock on DVD for just $37. That’s 20 discs, 96...

I don’t think that’s how you spell it

by Mir | Jun 24, 2010 | Hot Hot Hot!, What to Wear

Minus ten points for Old Navy’s insistence on labeling their current promotion with the phrase “Wholey Moley,” because their spelling makes my head hurt. But plus twenty points for the actual promo itself—save 30% on absolutely everything, with...

Reminder: ThermaCELL contest

by Mir | Jun 23, 2010 | Contests

Don’t forget—you have until early tomorrow morning to enter to win a ThermaCELL mosquito repellent outdoor lantern, but you can’t win if you don’t enter. Make sure your comment is in so you can have your shot at it. As always, please leave...

E-readers drop in price, hooray!

by Mir | Jun 23, 2010 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk

Even if you’re not an Apple enthusiast, you have to be a little pleased about the iPad for a couple of reasons. First, it’s given us the best crop of immature feminine protection product jokes since junior high; and second, it put just enough of a squeeze...