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09 Jan 2010

Broke-Ass Porn: Cheap Airfare Websites

Once a week we present Broke-Ass Porn.  It’s visually stimulating material for the financially impaired.  If this shit doesn’t get you going, you’re not as broke as you thought: The other day I found myself sitting at the computer, playing with different cheap airfare sites, and fantasizing about buying a

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09 Jan 2010

Bad Movie Night at The Dark Room

There’s only one thing I love better than bad movies, and that is cheap bad movies. Making a night of it? Well, that is just the greatest idea ever. Luckily the lovely people over at The Dark Room had the totally awesome idea of making every Sunday $5 Bad Movie

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09 Jan 2010

Stuff for the Stuffed Up: A Few Tricks for Cold Symptoms

No matter how much you ignore people on the subway in New York, it’s hard not to notice the people wearing surgical masks. And while part of me giggles, another part of me totally understands the precaution. Nothing breeds germs quite like enclosed spaces and people rubbing their hands all

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08 Jan 2010

Wallace Shawn at Friends Meeting House

Did you even know that there was a Quaker Meeting House in Manhattan? Well not only is there one, but the beloved and wonderful Wallace Shawn will be there tonight, reading from his volume of essays called, shockingly Essays. Most of us 80s babies know Wallace Shawn from such cinematic

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08 Jan 2010

The Hobby Company of San Francisco

Too cool to spend your leisure time playing video games, lurking on facebook, or doing drugs? Do you wanna impress that cute emo kid at the coffeeshop with your knitting abilities? Are you an out of touch shut in who is frightened by the world around you and wishes to

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08 Jan 2010

Excellent New Years Resolutions

With the arrival of the New Year I find my thoughts turning contemplative.  These coldest and darkest months of self-reflection often mark a critical juncture in my own personal growth.  Over the years I have been fond of creating New Years Resolutions that form a benchmark, helping me to grow

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08 Jan 2010

Upgrade Your Comfort Foods Part 3: Gourmet Mac and Cheese

Mac & Cheese will forever be a Broke-Ass staple food. Unlike the Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich, you can kind of pretend a big bowl of mac & cheese is a real, grownup dinner instead of a lunch item all the other kids at your lunch table would make fun

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07 Jan 2010

5 Promising Spring Trends

Well! Spring is only about 72 days or something like that away, and for those of us mired in the freezing misery of the East Coast, looking forward to springtime and the clothes and accessories that come with it-are one of the few things that make wintertime bearable at all.

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