Lego Sushi via Ffffound!

Lego Sushi via Ffffound!

Each week, in addition to the links you can see by spying on my Google Reader, I compile a list of posts that interested me and post them here on Saturday. You can check out the ABDPBT Personal Finance, ABDPBT Tech, and ABDPBT Commodity Fetishism versions at your leisure as well. If you have any posts that were great that I missed, please send me an email and I’ll check it out before next week.

Photo via Ffffound!

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Here are some of my favorite articles from this week in the world of personal finance. Enjoy at your leisure, and don’t forget to check out the ABDPBT, ABDPBT Tech, and ABDPBT Commodity Fetishism versions as well. If you have a link to suggest for next week, please email me at anna at abdpbt View definition in a new window dot com and I’ll check it out.

  • According to Bankrate, you can use Twitter to save cash. What they don’t tell you is how much crap twitter spam you will have to wade through if you try to do this. It’s kind of like someone telling you to “use email to save money on pharmaceuticals.” Or to enhance penis size. But those MSM outlets are trying, god bless ‘em.
  • Explore the pitfalls of buying in bulk at Get Rich Slowly. None of this is news, but I enjoyed the anecdote about how the blogger’s kids started to revolt after being made to eat Puffins cereal at breakfast for six months straight. Perhaps a better title would be, “When Does It Stop Being Smart Home Economy And Start Being Child Abuse? Learn To Identify The Signs.” [Note to self: write that idea down.]
  • Bargaineering takes on the delicate subject of women outearning their husbands. How does Jim Wang, chief blogger at Bargaineering, feel about it? After a paragraph of hedges and rationalizations, he concludes that, under a certain set of conditions, he’d be totally fine with it.
Yes, THE fame, what shall we do about THE fame?

Yes, THE fame, what shall we do about THE fame?

How do you feel about Lady Gaga? Me? Eh. Her songs are good for exercising to, like most music put out by gay icons. But they aren’t fantastic, they have a good beat and if I weren’t tone deaf perhaps I could weigh in on whether or not she has a good voice, although those kinds of niceties don’t really seem to matter all that much these days, what with the magic that can be done behind-the-scenes.

But we all know Lady Gaga, right? Mostly because of her crazy fashion antics and her outlandish stunts. She’s become part of the popular imagination by going to the MTV Music Video awards, wearing six different outfits, each crazier than the next, and splattering blood all over herself, hanging from a noose, on stage. And shortly thereafter, her tour with Kanye West was canceled presumably in part because of Kanye’s stupid “Imma let you finish” move on that same awards show.

Photo via MTV

Photo via MTV

Why do we know Lady Gaga again? Is it the Madonna attention whore thing again? Yes, but with a twist. (Continued on next page).

I started thinking about Lady Gaga and how her fashion is super crazy, but it’s crazy in an extra peculiar way. It’s not just making a statement, it’s serving some kind of purpose for her. And I could not figure out what htis purpose was, other than the attention-getting, which is hardly a new thing for Lady Gaga. Until I started to notice a pattern between all of her costume changes. When you see Lady Gaga out during the day, she is always wearing sunglasses. This on its own is not strange.

Sunglasses go best with full shirts, Lady Gaga. Just FYI.

Sunglasses go best with full shirts, Lady Gaga. Just FYI.

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