It's beginning to look a lot like springtime, as it's a balmy 69 degrees in Virginia, but it's still the holiday season -- that holiday being Gheorghemas!
As we round out the home stretch of your Gmas offerings, here comes another batch of gifts from the original gri-onch, Clarence.
For Mark and Zman: this is a dandy.
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
This thing looks bad-assed. It could be all flair and no pizza shooters, shrimp poppers or extreme fajitas, but were I to judge a book by its cover (and a brief peek via Barnes and Noble), I'd say it's solid. The book is fodder for arguments of the significance of each year's selections (e.g., no tunes by the three bad brothers you know so well), but in my milieu of early to mid-80's rap, I see no egregious inclusions. This gift is for Mark and Z, but I wanna borrow it. Friends... how many of us have them?
For Dave:
Very Semi-Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait of New Yorker Cartoonists
A documentary of the world of New Yorker cartoons, the cartoon department, the cartoonists, etc. Dave has been a cartoonist since we sat in college classrooms not paying attention together. I would play the initials game and flirt gamelessly with co-eds; Dave would doodle and make cartoons. Later he submitted captions and possibly even cartoons to the magazine. Enjoy.
For Danimal:
Sorry, dude. It's not worth that much, but it's not nothing, either.
And this is the perfect gift for people to give Whitney. (People like Mr. KQ, maybe.)
Winchester's own Escutcheon Brewery has crafted the perfect pint for those lamenting Monday night's debacle. John Riggins 4th and 1 pilsner. The picture above has everything for the Riggo fan: Don McNeal falling, the Sandy Baby quote, and beer. Sigh. Read the WaPo article.and DCers should sample some at the Verizon Center Greene Turtle tomorrow for Happy Hour with the Honorary Hog himself.
Rob, you get David Price and the Clarence-awarded Best GTBer of 2015. Those things, like the Goonies, R good enough.
More gifts when lulls occur throughout Gheorghemas.
Also on this date in history, Tommy Lasorda, Lute Olson, Scott Baio, Mystikal and Toni Basil were born, and National Geographic magazine was launched. The latter gives me an excuse to post this picture (it's science, ladies, get your minds out of the gutter):
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