Best Buy is staging an essay contest: applicants vie to describe how important a family ritual Black Friday shopping is. The 25 winners get a $1,000 gift card, a limo ride and early admittance at 4:30 a.m. to the Black Friday deals. [source]

How important a family ritual Black Friday shopping is?

[pause]

Uh… A $5 DVD of Chill Factor saved my parents' marriage?

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Tweeter is liquidating the merchandise at its stores. I'm hoping to score a deal on a D-BOX chair.

—actual retail price: 4 or 5 grand

But it's a moving chair that's synced to the action in a movie or video game!

Ben Stiller kicks it root down, sneaking on stage dressed as Adrock while the Beasties do the weave.

I question if writers of film and television in which someone returns to a completely empty office because his or her employer fled overnight have moved before.

I'll buy up to 80% empty.

"Keyshawn Johnson: Tackling Design" will follow the current ESPN analyst as he tries to make a name in the world of interior design. [source]

Lucky for us, he didn't just choose football.

I await Chris Berman's My New BFF. Like Flavor Flav, he nicknames every candidate.

I voted for fries. :(

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