Category: Gift Ideas

Gift Idea: Helvetica (Comic Sans) T-Shirt »

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This little bit font cleverness made me chuckle. It’s a perfect gift for all your uppity design nerd friends who implore you to see “Helvetica” the film (decent fawn-fest, but not enough there to sustain an entire doc), and who pretend to get sick at the sight of Comic Sans. It’s also a lovely gift for your hot chick friends who enjoy people reading their chests.

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Holiday Shopping Tips and Hot Items for 2010 »

# Official Tea Party merchandise now available! Children’s Tea Party Set. $17.76. Colors: white only.
# iPad “Car Steering Wheel Controller” app now $4.99. iPad “Car Steering Wheel Controller” app now $4.99. Amazon Deal of The Day! WikiLeaks Audio Box Set as read by Icky Woods. And More!

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Still a Great Gift Idea! UsedWigs “Quality Workday Distractions” Book »

I’m pretty certain the Internet will blow up soon, and with that, millions upon million of nonsense-filled webpages and countless gigs of nut-punching videos will be lost forever. Sad, but it’s inevitable.
That’s why I gathered up some of my favorite musings from this website and put them in book form. They shall be preserved for the future generation of belligerent, ferocious apes who will one day enslave all humans and rule the earth… and learn to read. In that exact order. So, that’s why this book is staring you in the face. It’s for the apes.

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Gift Idea: Textual Healing »

You love post-apocalyptic dystopian tales of gritty humans battling armies of insidious baby-eating cyborgs, right? So does Philadelphia’s preeminent geek Eric Smith (www.geekadelphia.com), but in his debut novel he tackles something much more troubling and frightening: relationships and ruts.

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Gift Idea: Philadelphia Travel Poster »

Esteemed Philly design shop Heads of State have created a striking series of Travel Posters. Each city is done justice with an authentic vintage feel and super clean iconic representation. “The City of Brotherly Love” is my favorite because there is no Rocky statue in it. Two choices:

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Gift Idea: “A Book of Jean’s Own” from Jean Teasdale »

“Jean Teasdale has been The Onion’s resident humor and human-interest columnist since 1990. In addition to writing, Jean has held more than thiry-five part time jobs, and has been fired from more than thirty. She has been married to tire-technician Richard “Rick” Teasdale for nearly twenty years. Jean resides in the Midwest, where she pursues many varied interests, including collecting figurines, making ghosts out of of facial tissue, and testing out many “as seen on TV” products.”

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Gift Idea: Muppet Tee »

Cool T-shirt featuring muppets Statler and Waldorf, who share the stage left balcony box in the Muppet Theater, and the two delight in heckling every aspect of The Muppet Show. Statler and Waldorf are especially unforgiving to Fozzie Bear.

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Gift Idea: My Year Of Flops »

My Year of Flops collects dozens of the best-loved entries from Rabin’s avclub.com column along with loads of bonus features. These include interviews with talent from the films chronicled, a new introduction and postscript, illustrations by Danny Hellman and fifteen new entries on everything from notorious flops like The Cable Guy and The Last Action Hero to bizarre obscurities like Gospel Road, Johnny Cash’s homemade tribute to Jesus.

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Gift Idea: “Bad Chewie” Tee Shirt »

“In this funny cartoon, Mike Jacobsen of See Mike Draw shows us what happens when Han forgot to let Chewie out. In his defense, Chewie said “WRAAARRAWRRRAHAARRWWW” (Translation: “Sorry, guys, but I had to go… Hey, at least it isn’t as bad as that Christmas Special thing!”)”

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Distractions: ‘Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk’ Book, Tea Bag T-Shirt Photos, STP Guy Falls Off Stage and Emmy Thoughts »

Junk Mail: Just got Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk in the mail. Yup, had to order online, I was too ashamed to buy it in the bookstore during my weekly visit to pick up OK!, People and Asian Lady Holz. Since ripping open the package 2 hours ago, I’ve been hiding from my family, reading [...]

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