I find it incredibly fitting that when I hurried to pause my TV right before this week’s new episode of LOST (I wasn’t ready to dive in just yet because there was Thai takeout to be picked up) I happened to pause it on precisely this image (right). McDonald’s’ (wow, that’s awkward) new addition to its Dollar Menu is a sixer of McNuggets. This is huge. They warn that this will only be the case until January 31, so DR encourages everyone to go out and reap the benefits of the deal so that McD’s will have no choice but to continue the big moneymaker, now and forever and ever, amen.

The commercial reminded me of another hand-centric pause I captured during the iPod Nano commercial (left).

“Uh huh… I guess all those hands look the same to you, Annie.”

OMG, you’re right. I’m so racist.

No, I just like the whole “reaching for the unattainable” theme present in commercials today. Keeps the dream alive, eh? Then, when you’re sitting at home with your Nano and dollar pack of nuggets, you’ll feel more triumphant. You just beat all the odds, and yet what you did was entirely ordinary and shallow! See? It’s better for us all. Deception is key.

I should point out here that until this week I was partial to the 99-cent menu at Wendy’s. Cheaper, more to choose from, and Frosty-inclusive. Can’t go wrong. Unless you get the chili, I guess. (Which I constantly do. Sorry. It’s excellent.)

Hey, that’s my mom!

Currently loving: Soft Baked cookies, this time in “Sugar” variety
Currently hatin’: NYC deli prices on beer. WTF? I miss my independent supermarket down the street (Strawberry Fields, awww…), even if I was their only customer, hence their shutdown.