Thursday August 25, 2005

Swag to Riches

I have another thing up at Radar today. With the VMAs just days away, I looked into the goody bag from this summer’s MTV Movie Awards to determine—via charity catalogs from Good Gifts and Heifer International—what it would be worth to people who might really need it. For instance, did you know that for the price of one Missoni floral print hat, you could buy a camel for African nomads? Or that two bottles of Jose Cuervo Reserva de la Familia could provide a Bolivian family with a wool-bearing llama? True, the Cuervo is better for coaxing Tara Reid out of her dress, but why is that a good thing again?