Dollar Tree Adventures

I've mentioned The Dollar Tree on this blog before....
It's one of the greatest stores in the world. EVERYTHING there costs exactly one dollar (none of this funny business of calling the place a dollar store while having items that are really priced for more), and you can actually find some real gems on its shelves. Seriously -- books, cleaning products, food (80 percent of my groceries are purchased at The Dollar Tree), toys, and even movies wind up there. AWESOME!


Anyway, I just wanted to make a quick post to tell you folks about four really neat things I picked up at The Dollar Tree yesterday. Excellent deals here, friends.

To start off, I got two DVDs, each for just one dollar (of course). Check this out:

The first one is a documentary called Heckler. Featuring interviews with such noted comedians as Bill Maher, Lewis Black, Dave Attell, and Maria Bamford, this film explores the phenomenon of heckling someone -- usually a stand-up comic -- and goes even further, examining why critics can so often be MEAN, in general. Hey, there's some fascinating and hilarious insight here, not only from the comedians, but also from other celebrities, including Carrie Fisher, Henry Winkler, and Uwe Boll. Their thoughts and stories can be surprisingly interesting!


Heckler is really a project of Jamie Kennedy, who apparently got so frustrated by the nastiness of some of the reviews for his movies Son of the Mask and Malibu's Most Wanted that he wanted to confront the critics head-on. Sure, he comes across as somewhat thin-skinned at times, but as someone who considers himself a connoisseur of both stand-up comedy AND film criticism, I found Heckler to be quite entertaining. Certainly not for everyone, but without question worth my while, anyway....

3 out of 5.

And DVD Number 2 is one of them compilation deals I'll occasionally write about. You know -- like, when some company collects a bunch of old public domain movies and sticks them on one disk? Yeah, it's one of those.

This particular selection is comprised of eight classic gangster movies, packed into one handy package. Mmmmyeah, that's right, see -- GANGSTER MOVIES. Start squawkin', ya dame!!!


Although the films included in this compilation are, on the whole, pretty crappy, the fact that they're so cliche makes them oddly charming. Consider the price, and this bad boy is certainly worth the investment. I fell asleep last night to the comforting sounds of blaring horn music and classic movie mafia guys engaging in high-speed shootouts with police. How can you go wrong with a value like this???

Here are the mobster flicks included:

--Escape By Night
--Gang Bullets
--Gangster's Boy
--The Racketeer
--Baby Face Morgan
--Boss of Big Town
--Gangs, INC.
--Lady Gangster

Lots of fun.

3 out of 5.

(How mobsters used to talk.)

OK, and the final submissions I have today are actually foods. Lookie -- it's coconut sugar cookies and Rice Krispy Treats!


The "Crispy Rice Squares" are thoroughly respectable iterations of the classic Rice Krispy Treat recipe. Unlike most imitations of this item, they're not too soft (as the woefully disappointing Little Debbie versions are), and there's five in a one dollar box, which is a good deal.

The coconut sugar cookies, though, are the REAL winner here. You get eight individually wrapped bundles of ten cookies in the overall package. Considering that Dollar Tree cookies along these lines usually contain six bundles of four cookies, this is an incredible deal. And, the bonus??? --The cookies are excellent, easily rivaling any coconut sugar snacks one could find for a higher price anywhere. You can bet these suckers will be a staple of my lunch satchel if they remain a part of the standard Dollar Tree inventory moving forward.

And that's why I declare these Global Foods Sugar Sprinkled Coconut Cookies to be the Snack of the Month!!!


OK, well...there's my weekend, in a nut shell. exciting stuff, I know....

Later!

b.