Christmas Gift Ideas

For Democrat friends, the perfect Christmas gift: audiobook of One Way Back, read by the author Christine Blasey Ford (see New version of the Boeing 787 announced: “the Christine Blasey Ford Edition 787, for which the launch customer will be United Airlines. The 787 CBFE is equipped with a fainting couch section for Premier 1K members who are terrified of flying”). Part of the Amazon description:

Her words and courage on that day provided some of the most credible and unforgettable testimony our country has ever witnessed. … This is the real story behind the headlines and the soundbites, a complex, compelling memoir of a scientist, a surfer, a mother, a patriot and an unlikely whistleblower. Ford’s experience shows that when one person steps forward to speak truth to power, she adds to a collective whole, causing “a ripple that might one day become a wave.”

If your friend is, like Kamala Harris, a San Francisco/Berkeley Democrat, We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film:

For Republicans (I’m assuming that nobody here has a Republican as an actual friend, but perhaps a reader will be forced to buy a gift for a business colleague): Mania by Lionel Shriver. (See also The Mandibles: Nobody can agree on what caused the collapse and The Mandibles: turning sex into money before and after an economic collapse.)

Facebook AI has seen me post enthusiastically over the years about Disney World and also about Japanese gardens in various states and countries. It presents me with this advertisement for what would be an original Thomas Kinkade if Thomas Kinkade hadn’t died in 2012 at age 54 (there was a great profile of him in New Yorker in 2001 before the magazine transitioned to an all-anti-Republican format):

It’s about $780 in 24×36″ size with a rose-colored frame, which I think looks better than the above:

Considering that $780 is on track to be the price of a Diet Coke soon enough, should we be collecting this limited edition of what would have been Kinkade’s original work?

For religious friends, how about these prayer and votive candles from Etsy?

How about the Time Magazine “Mandate for Change” cover after Bill Clinton won 43 percent of the popular vote in 1992?

For elite friends with massive fingerprint-magnet Sub-Zero refrigerators… How about this 18×24″ print to go in the middle of a 36-inch fridge or freezer door?