Consume now and avoid the rush later

TorgoX on 2005-10-26T04:37:32

Dear All,

In just two months, all Earthicans will celebrate our most solemn joyous holiday, Christmas. This is when we gather together or separately to remember the day, in 753BC, when Abraham Lincoln first climbed Mount Kilauea to beseech Barbarella to erase our consumer debt, vanquish the Chinamen, and restore Consumer Confidence to the world.

We commemorate this by exchanging gifts.

So that you can impress others with your gift-giving planning and thus win the Decemberween liquors, here are my suggestions for how to do your shopping sooner rather than later:

• Artfood
  • Bathsheba Grossman art -- a good place to spend $50 or $1500 or anything inbetween. I recommend one of these for any bio/med/chem people you know; or this or this for any aliens you know; or one of these for any cubicle-dwellers (or in roughly lime-sized miniatures if you worry someone will put their eye out on one of the larger ones). I got a few of her pieces recently, and they're like owning a hallucination.
  • goodies from the Get Your War On guy
  • stuff by Lynda Barry
  • exquisite chipotle for foodie food fun
  • Excellent tea for teaheads. (I recommend the rooibos -- no caffeine, but with a good substantial feel like most "herbal" teas lack.)
  • Homestar goodies of all kinds
• Video
  • Rejected
  • Invader Zim
  • Shaye Saint John - The Triggers compilation -- wacky wonky video art
  • The Atomic Café
  • Myra Breckinridge -- serious nightmare fodder
• Books
  • Perl Best Practices
  • Voltaire's Bastards
  • Invisible Cities
  • A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as A Grotesque Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations
  • Colors Insulting to Nature
  • Indian Givers
  • Shaping Things
  • Or, if you're feeling fancy, there's always the Codex Seraphinianus. Think of it as a really really complicated technical book.

Consume now and avoid the rush later!