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The Birds + Barbie
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds edition Barbie. Now that’s quality.
For those hard-to-shop-for people on your Christmas list…
The Miller Park Zoo is offering holiday ornaments made out of reindeer droppings. But how to choose between the ones that are just clear-coated and the ones that are rolled in glitter?
random tidbits from the DEA
I watched FOX news again tonight. It’s because they re-assure me that everything is ooookay. Usually they do stories that assure me we’re morally, politically, and militarily superior to the world, and god bless america, the sun never sets on the American Empire.
Sometimes, however, they do stories that open my eyes to the sad state of the world. For instance, tonight I learned that kids can learn about drugs on the internet. I presume that before the internet, no one did drugs. At the end of the story they told us that the best information about drugs was available from the DEA. Then they directed us to dea.gov. Now, I don’t know that this is the best drug information there is, but the DEA museum has certainly the best drug-enforcement related gift shop I’ve ever seen. It’s also the only drug-enforcement themed museum I’ve ever seen. Unless you count the museum in Florida with the guilletines and electric chairs, but that’s not really the same.
What do you think my sister-in-law would do to us if we got our niece a DEA teddy bear?
Some of the items, however, are a little strange:
Doesn’t that seem oddly specialized?
Holiday Gift Guide, Part III
Before I discovered the wonders of shopping local, I used to cast my net farther-afield. Last year’s haul came from Skeleton’s in the Closet.The L.A. County Coroner’s Office Gift Shop. (motto: “Part of you thinks it’s in poor taste, part of you wants an XL.” Great service, great gifts, supporting a great cause.