I gave some neat things for Christmas and I got some neat ones too. I particularly like the absolute utility of my new Gorillapod, a flexible tripod for digital cameras.
My Christmas book is The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America. It's by Ron Brownstein, formerly of the LA Times, now political director of the company which publishes The Atlantic, National Journal, and The Hotline. It concludes with recommendations for how to get past said polarization, which will be interesting. My inner totalitarian says the obvious solution is to pull the FCC licenses for Fox News and Clear Channel, put the entities which put Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage et. al. on the air out of business, and send a whole slew of Republican Congresspeople to re-education camps, but I realize that's not practical.
Let's see. What else did I get? New denim shorts and new t-shirts. Update: Oh, and a Magic Bullet.
I gave one niece some gift cards and a pre-fab shoe stacker for the bedroom she's refurnishing, the other niece some plumeria earrings, my sister some spooky books and a nice top, my brother-in-law a couple of shirts and a Hawaiian CD, and Mom a 2008 appointment book (a long-standing tradition, that one), a shirt, a couple of CDs (The Chieftains' Bells of Dublin and Ella Fitzgerald's Very Best of the Gershwin Songbook) and a koa bookmark from Martin & MacArthur.
Posted by Linkmeister at December 28, 2007 12:01 AM | TrackBackOh cool, you have the Gorillapod, I've wanted to find someone with that! How're you liking it? Take it out and tested in any odd locations yet? I've been tempted to buy it for a while!
Posted by: batgrl at December 31, 2007 12:34 PMBatty, for $25 it's worth it just as a conversation piece.
No, I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but I expect to soon.
Posted by: Linkmeister at December 31, 2007 01:18 PM