Every year around this time, bloggers post their Amazon.com wishlists, and I wonder how much of a loon one must be to buy gifts for a writer he/she's never met.
I'm not talking about a $10-20 token of appreciation. Those are understandable. I mean those instances where (mostly male) readers buy (mostly female) bloggers digital cameras, sets of expensive heels and all kinds of pricey items that show they're (unlikely) really rich or (very likely) really lonely.
Red Sux fans aside, I try to keep this site nutcase-free, but in case I've failed, here's a just-compiled Amazon.com wishlist of the most expensive shit I could find. And yeah, that's a woman's watch on it, because think of what I could barter a $225,000 watch for.
Today's Web Finds:
• Lisa Guerrero's January 2006 Playboy Pictorial — Her massive juggs used to be in full view on Monday Night Football. Now we have to settle for John Madden's.
• Century Club: By The Minute — You have to be really bad at math to think you can drink 100 1½-oz. shots of beer — the equivalent of 12½ 12-oz. cans — in less than two hours without some serious vomitous ramifications. (Found on GorillaMask.net)
• The Black Beatles MP3 — Pretty funny clip from the Don Imus morning show. (Thanks, Pee Wee)
• No Holds Barred — My sometimes Yogi's drinking buddy and loyal PK.com reader Eddie Goldman has launched a new boxing-related blog. Vicious sport; great writer.
• TV Squad Reviews Dane Cook's Saturday Night Live Appearance — I'm a big Dane fan, but man was I disappointed. The monologue was entirely from his previously released CDs, and the skits pretty much blew, aside from the Jay Feely skit in which he was bragging to incensed teammates on the flight home from Seattle about that chippie field goal he hit early in the game against the Seahawks.
• TIME's Photos of the Year — Compelling, dramatic photojournalism from my friends over at the T&L Building.
• Fotki.com Drops 4x6 Photos to 9 Cents Each — Build your vacation collages (you do this, too, right?) for only a couple of bucks.
That century club thing was fantastic, particularly the description of when any quantity-based drinking game turns into a slog-filled chore to be done rather than something fun and spontaneous. It's inevitable.
Watched Dane Cook on SNL; I think SNL drags down anybody funny these days. That show jumped the shark when John Belushi died, although it did have some good moments in the early '90s.
Posted by stackpat at December 12, 2005 11:28 AM