*Oh ha ha look at the funny ad! It's funny because he is looking at his weiner and it's called Obsession get it? Ha, men are obsessed with their love sticks and he is looking at his because he is obsessed. Ha, ha, I can't stop laughing because it is so clever and funny and true too!

I think I have a problem with Adbusters magazine. See, to simplify, they are supposedly a not-for profit organization focusing on social activism. Fair enough. They like to preach about what (and when) you should or shouldn't buy, watch or wear something and feature clever and witty ad spoofs. Sure, the preaching is disguised as outsider art and forward thinking style with a generous sprinkling of hip granola and ecological wiseassery, but I still think at the end of the day, preaching is what it is. Super.

I know, it's cool to be a global thinker, to hate consumerism, to be able to say you spend your time "creatively and fully" rather than watching tv or movies. It's important to be one of the "in" people who believes everything they do is for the greater good of some community or other (you know, bang a drum, chant a clever rhyme, draw on a bus shelter ad and other such useful ways of changing the world), but if you are paying the $35 for a year's subscription to the magazine (or even buying the issues individually), then dear friend, you are most definitely a consumer any way you look at it. If you spend more time regurgitating the words you read in adbusters than in actually doing your own thing, then you also are a consumer (and a mindless parrot too).

What it comes down to is, don't tell me your consumerism is better than mine. Oh, and p.s. it's gonna take more than quoting some adbusters schlock to change the world dingbats. Put your magazines down and do something. Posting some fake ad over a real one doesn't change anything, it's just ignorant.

You wanna help the world? Start locally. Screw buy nothing day and try buying something for someone who has less than you instead. If you can't even do that, then shut up and stop using buy nothing day (or buy nothing for christmas day) as an excuse for your selfish cheap ass ways.

Now I'm going to get back to my Us Weekly, I need to know where Anna Nicole will be buried.