Top 10 Gifts for Your Girlfriend
Technine Dime Series LTD Women’s Snowboard $240. They’re pink, black and totally badass. The product description says “Women’s snowboard features a soft flex pattern and radial sidecuts for easy turning. Snowboard also boasts a poplar full-wood core to make it light enough to achieve air time.” I don’t know what that means, but a snowboard...
Stranger Danger Makes Way for the Next Insidious Issue: Advertising
Thank you, PBS. You always come through for the kids, whether it was teaching us to love books with “Reading Rainbow” or telling us how to avoid being kidnapped with “Stranger Danger.” PBS’s newest campaign is “Don’t Buy It.” They want kids to start looking critically at the ways advertisers speak to them, inviting them...
Take it at Face Value: Seven truths about the cosmetics industry
I’m of the mind that anyone and everyone can benefit from a little bit of skincare and makeup….as long as it makes you feel more comfortable. I do have some friends that are so freaked out by the idea of applying eyeliner (or the actual purpose of bronzer) they wouldn’t go near it for a...
We Vibe 3 – Where to Buy
The We-Vibe 3 is this years most anticipated sex toy! Having sold over a million We-Vibes already and won numerous awards for innovation and design – the We-vibe should be the best selling couple’s vibrator of 2011 & 2012! 2 powerful motors! Easy-to-use wireless remote control. Drive vibrations onto both the clitoris & g-spot. Medical...
Mary Karr gets Lit, finds God
Mary Karr, author of The Liar’s Club and Cherry, comes out swinging again with her latest memoir, Lit. Her Texas shit-kicking style shines through as usual, but she’s tempered it this time with a serene wisdom born of her sobriety and conversion to Catholicism. Mary’s told us quite a bit about her family in the...
Top 10 Gifts for Awesome People
I’m not saying that your family members/significant others aren’t awesome. I’m merely suggesting that you spread the holiday cheer to additional awesome people in your life. Retro Turntable $200. Everyone has a friend with a wicked collection of vinyl that they can’t play, record, travel with, file transfer, upload, etc. Whether they inherited it from...
Chocolate Couture Stirs the Pot, But Not Much
It almost seems too trite to be true – in fact, it sounds like something a panel of male marketing execs came up with. Exec 1: “Women like chocolate. Women like clothes. Hey! Let’s make clothes out of chocolate!” Exec 2: “Why not make chocolate out of clothes?” Exec 1: “…” Exec 2: “Or shoes.”...
Top 10 Gifts for Your Daughter
A T-shirt designed by her favorite band $25. “OMG OMG mom, shut up! A T-shirt designed by The Shins? WHERE did you find this?!?!” Things you should know first: 1. Make sure she actually likes the band or artist you pick. 2. The available bands are more or less “indie rock,” so if you’ve heard...
Top 10 Gifts for Husbands
Fuego Element Grill $450. Men like grills. Men will like this grill because it looks kind of like a spaceship with wheels and fire. You can cook pizza and pancakes on this thing. Probably steaks and burgers too. It even hides the ugly green propane tank so nothing will come between a man and the...
Sex Furniture – Invest or Protest?
Furniture designed specifically to aid in the development of new sex positions – who wouldn’t be intrigued? (Probably lots of people who do missionary style once a month and that’s it). But for the more sexually adventurous there are a multitude of sex furniture options, often called adult wedges, bedroom adventure gear, erotic furniture, sex...
Five Sexy Holiday Gifties
With the holidays approaching faster than even I care to admit, it’s time to start thinking about a unique gift for your girlfriend or wife. Something that says “I cherish you, your body and our sex life.” Depending on your girl, this could be a tricky endeavor for good-intentioned you. You don’t want to choose...
Top 9 Gifts for Mom
Anything on etsy. Same advice I gave your dad – women like handmade things. Whether your mom has tattoos and participates in Roller Derby or likes to wear reindeer sweaters and bake cookies for the VFW, you’ll find something she’ll love on etsy. Chocolate truffles! $30 – $50. Fair trade and packaged in reusable tins,...
