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Product Break-Up: MAC metallic nailpolish
April 3, 2012 – 2:25 PM | 41 Comments
Product Break-Up: MAC metallic nailpolish

Number of hours it took for the mani to chip: 10. (Number of those hours I had spent sleeping: 7.) And it isn’t just a bitty “caught the corner of a Diet Coke can tab …

DVR Break-Up: Brothers & Sisters
March 3, 2009 – 2:56 PM | 31 Comments
DVR Break-Up: <I>Brothers & Sisters</I>

It’s not an official break-up yet, but I may need some space, some time to figure out if this is what I really want.
The show isn’t bad; the acting is still top-notch, and the cast …

DVR Break-Up: Life on Mars
December 17, 2008 – 4:37 AM | 36 Comments
DVR Break-Up: <I>Life on Mars</I>

This is what happens when you add a show to the season-pass list almost solely because you think Michael Imperioli is incredibly foxy with the long hair and the mustache (and about the long hair: …

DVR Break-Up: Heroes
September 23, 2008 – 8:18 PM | 45 Comments
DVR Break-Up: <I>Heroes</I>

Alan Sepinwall, in the comments thread of his post on Heroes earlier today:
[M]y feeling is that the show wasn’t even that good in season 1, outside of a handful of episodes (“Five Years Later,” “Company …

Product Break-Up: Stila Cherry Crush
August 2, 2008 – 1:17 AM | 12 Comments

The design of your tube is super-cute, but you don’t moisturize my lips, at all; you don’t give them any noticeable color; I don’t use you on my cheeks.   It’s nice of Stila to …