Snarking at Skymall

Story about Skymall in the New York Times. Sounds like they’re perfectly aware of how absurd their catalog is. A quote that I loved:

“To browse its pages is to understand the essential secret of American consumer life: That we’ve officially run out not only of things we need, but even of things we might plausibly desire.”

Proving that I’m not the only one making fun of Skymall, check out this quiz that asks you to determine which products have really appeared in Skymall. I got 7 out of 8; can you beat my score? It helped that one of the products was one that I’d already covered in this blog, and at least one more is something that I’m going to be covering.