You still haven't gone Christmas shopping yet, have you? Well, there's still time, though not much. I do remember Christmas shopping at the local drug store with my mother on Christmas Eve one year. Don't let this happen to you. And as a public service for the procrastinating Santas, I'm offering some great gift hints for those on your nice (or maybe your naughty) list.
Cookbooks are all the rage now. There's that annoying chick who thinks everything is yummo, the "Good Eats" guy on the Food Network is actually pretty good, and there's always something from Emeril or Martha Stewart, but what you want is a little something different. My favorite might be Manifold Destiny: The One, The Only, Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine. This book actually would be good not only for the culinary enthusiast, but the gear head as well. Manifold Destiny can be found at abebooks.com which has a number of, uh, "interesting," cookbooks, including Cooking to Kill: The Poison Cook Book by someone, or something, named Ebenezer Murgatroyd.
If you're shopping for someone who's interested in the environment you can give them some dung. Elephant dung to be exact. Well, ok, it's paper products made from elephant dung and the proceeds go to help feed and care for elephants in Thailand. Staying with this dung theme, you can also purchase products made from rhino poop, all in the name of helping the environment, of course. For someone really special on your list, and one who may not care about saving the environment, you can purchase some chicken poop lip balm on eBay, in addition to a rather startlingly high number of poop related items. Again, this would be for that really special someone.
What are the holidays really about? Family? Friends? The birth of the savior? No. Alcohol. For the boozing golfer (those two are really one and the same, aren't they?) on your list, there's the Designated Driver Kooler Klub. It's a golf club disguised as a drink dispense, for the golfer who still wants to try and hide his alcoholism. For the non-golfer who may be in need of a few at the holidays, there's the Twelve Shots of Christmas Shotglass Wreath. This can be found at Prank Place, a web site with a disturbing amount of alcohol and poop related Christmas gifts.
The true booze connoisseur on your list might be impressed by a bottle of absinthe. It's the stuff of which nightmares are made and allegedly hand a hand in driving the likes of Edgar Allen Poe and Vincent van Gogh over the edge. The sale of this strong, green colored liqueur had long been forbidden in the U.S., but as with every other law, there is a loop hole. It's illegal for a U.S. store to sell absinthe but it's not illegal for a U.S. citizen to possess it. One may purchase it on the Internet perfectly legally. (Why wasn't I informed of this years ago?) The hooch can be bought at a number of sights, including Absinthe Online. Absinthe.se is a wonderfully informative site, with information on the history of the drink, recommended brands and how to properly make one of the drinks.
As for me, if I'm on your list, my dress shirt size is 17 in the neck, with a 32-33 sleeve. Straight collar with French cuffs is the way to go, so you may as well get me some cufflinks as well. Something tasteful, not gaudy. And if you're getting me all that, you may as well get me a tie. Check out Paul Frederick Menstyle for some ideas.
Hope you found these hints helpful.
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