Um. . . ewwww?

by Mir | May 30, 2007 | Retail gone wrong

I can’t decide what freaks me out more about this product: That someone thought to make it, or that people are apparently buying it. (Would it be more or less gross to have Diet Beefy Dr. Pepper instead? Discuss.)

When bad things happen to good sneakers

by Mir | May 24, 2007 | Retail gone wrong

Listen, you know that I take my shoes very seriously, and so it is with utter earnestness that I feel the need to tell you that these shoes right here actually make the Baby Jesus cry. (The fact that they come in three different colors has rendered me completely...

I’m so unhip

by Mir | Apr 26, 2007 | Retail gone wrong

Call me crazy, but I really never thought they were supposed to be invisible.

An antidote to toilet fish

by Mir | Apr 12, 2007 | Product Talk, Retail gone wrong

Lovely and alert reader Jodi wrote in after yesterday’s post about the fish tank toilet to let me know that tricking out your toilet could, in fact, be environmentally friendly. Check out these Japanese commodes. My favorite is the first one, with water being...

I just find it fishy

by Mir | Apr 11, 2007 | Retail gone wrong

This is so many different kinds of wrong, I’m not even sure where to begin. But I’ll start here: It costs $300 in addition to being horrifying.

Even better

by Mir | Mar 8, 2007 | Retail gone wrong

Remember this? (The infamous post where apparently a reader thought I’d turned to peddling unmentionables, because that’s the sort of strumpet I am.) Did you feel left out, ladies? Never fear! Now you can play, too! (Thanks, Ben. You guys are...