Things You Should Buy Me: Volume 2

Welcome to another installment of Things You Should Buy Me. I'm your host, the guy who wants this stuff, and you represent the people who should buy it for me. Let's get right to it. You'll want to take some time right now to find your wallet or purse.

The Office (Season 5)



Still a consistently funny show all these years later and one of my favorite things to put on in the background while performing some kind of menial task, like cooking two lasagnas in one night like I did last night. Oh, yeah, I rocked that effin' kitchen and now I have enough starchy pasta goodness to eat all week long. Anyway, there's a deluxe edition, which you really don't have to spring for unless you want to, because I'd be good just getting this. You can buy it at Amazon, Best Buy, Wal-mart, or any other place where you selfishly shop for yourself while not buying me anything.

Cool "Lost" Art Stuff



There's been a series of ongoing "viral" (noninfectious) art pieces made available for "Lost" and I haven't asked you for a single one. Reward me by going to icangetyoupeanutbutter.com at 11 am CST today. They're only $50 bucks and this one is SUH-WEET. They are limited to 300 prints, so you're going to have to move fast. I'd go to the site now and just wait a few hours so you're ready. Seriously, even cartoon Kate is hot. Did I say that out loud?

Cocktail Chemistry Set



I don't have a ton of parties (shocking, I know), but when I do, I would love to serve and mix booze in a set that looks like this. Seriously, how cool is that?! You don't know if I've given you a Sex on the Beach or a Sucks You Drank Bleach! Fantastic. You can get this sweetness at Thinkgeek.com. So, do that.

Also, you still haven't bought me this:




YOU SHOULD DO THAT

More cool stuff as it is produced.

Well, maybe the MOVIE Cedar Rapids will be interesting

In what I can only assume was a violent, pitchfork-aided showdown that also included Coralville, Dubuque, and Mason City, Cedar Rapids has shanked its way to fame and fortune (and not just for their wonderful...what is it that Cedar Rapids has again?). Variety is reporting that Ed Helms, whose career is (in the parlance of our times) "blowin' up" after his turn in The Hangover has been tasked by Nebraska's favorite filmmaking son Alex Payne to star in Cedar Rapids. Payne will produce the comedy, which will be directed by Miguel Arteta (who has directed some great TV shows and the delightful Chuck and Buck), much to the delight of midwesterners everywhere (actually, not everywhere, in a very specific region). Helms, who has made a career of doofiness and false douchebaggery, has finally received strong recognition for playing the character he played in "The Office" in The Hangover. As if to totally shift gears from his standard delusional dork who is socially awkward almost to the point of tragedy, Helms will play a delusional dork insurance agent who tries to save the jobs of his colleagues, most likely in a social awkward way (to the point of tragedy). Buried in the news of Cedar Rapids rise to the pinnacle of cinematic recognition was this bit of tid from Variety's article: "Helms is currently writing with script partner Jake Fleisher an untitled Civil War comedy." Now, this is something I can get behind. I have said for YEARS that the battle of Antietam is just too hilarious to lie there. And Gettysburg? Don't get me started, I once had a Battle-of-the-Bulge laughing fit that nearly ended in internal bleeding. It was a real tragedy.