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By: Spencer Tweedy's Blog

Spencer Tweedy's Blog — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:33:51 +0000

[...] [we] watched Jaws last night. It was five bucks at Walmart (sorry sorry again sorry we went to Walmart sorry) so we got that and a few others, including a set of 20 Hitchcock [...]

By: dunn

dunn — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:42:58 +0000

I haven’t seen it mentioned yet, but the documentary in question is called
“Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price ”

http://www.walmartmovie.com/

Check it out…

p.s. Captcha = expanses Mrs. Weird… :-/

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:31:00 +0000

I can’t wait to read Guys Vs. Girls: What are they thinking? I’ve been to Wal-Mart once and Hooters once, on the same trip. I bet Nels Cline shops at Wal-Mart constantly.

By: Hazel

Hazel — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:53:27 +0000

walmart = disgusting
target = fucking rad (because of their kickass product design)

some stores are just weird.
i refuse to walk into my local shoprite because the last time i was in there i saw a baby drinking starbucks coffee, a man with only two teeth, and at last 6 women dressed in street clothes. and by street clothes i mean standingonthecornerwaitingforagentlemancustomer clothes

By: Mike Cohen

Mike Cohen — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:39:42 +0000

Brett – that sameness is also what’s hurting the music industry. Places like Walmart only carry the top 100 or so albums, which makes it a lot harder to discover new music. Large record stores like Tower Records & Virgin closed, which means even less variety.

By: Brett Hickman

Brett Hickman — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:09:34 +0000

Walmart stirs up a lot of conflicting feelings it seems. It’s really hard all around. I hate the way culture has gone in a lot of ways. Too much sameness.

Spencer – imagine a time when going to McDonald’s (or whatever chain) as being a special trip. Nowadays, people go there to eat almost every day. Most of the food is vile and I’ve been doing my best to avoid it at all costs, but that convenience factor kicks in sometimes and becomes unavoidable.

But back to the sameness angle – why is it you have to have a Starbucks, a McDonald’s or a BP Amoco (or whatever it’s called these days) in every town? Why do we need so many Best Buys, Walmarts or TGI Fridays? I just don’t get the culture that’s sprung up in the last 20 years.

What’s worse is traveling across the country and seeing it everywhere, too. You think maybe it’s just a big city and its ‘burbs thing and then it’s everywhere.

The person that mentioned Idiocracy is sadly, most likely, on the money. Once semi-intelligent to intelligent people stop reproducing as much and the dummies continue to do so, we’re all screwed.

Happy Friday! Just call me Downer Brett.

By: K Wild

K Wild — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:42:02 +0000

wow, so many posts. I’ll just have to chime in myself. Here’s what I don’t like about WalMart: they’re so big they have the power to pressure vendors of Stuff down on their prices. It’s basic business, but I’m not a big fan of basic business: “hey little game company” (Cranium, in my world, back when it actually was a little toy company and my husband worked there), “we can sell 80-gazillion of your whazzooo game if you sell it to us wholesale for penny profits, and then we’ll sell it for $3 less than the small-family-owned toy store down the road…” which is great for those people who couldn’t afford it at the family-owned toy store but it ultimately kills the small toy store and can lead the small game company to ruin as well. Plus, from an urban planning standpoint they’re a nightmare – ugly buildings in ugly seas of asphalt off of ugly giant roads, often not serviced by buses… my two cents. phheww.

geez, I think it’s great you’re an “influential teen” but I think I would have been frightened by this when I was 13, the same way if anyone ever decided I was influential now, it would freak me out a little. Or a lot.

By: Random Girl Number 4605

Random Girl Number 4605 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:21:04 +0000

Samm Levine from Freaks and Geeks! Aw… And, you of course as well. haha

By: child of saturn

child of saturn — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:29:05 +0000

woo go Spencer!congrats!

oh, stilts are fun…yet complex.

By: jd

jd — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:18:25 +0000

Got my issue of JVibe last week. Congratulations on being chosen as one of JVibe’s “18 Under 18” teens. The article about you was pretty cool reading too. Mazel Tov!