Official VM buddy Tom S. got a jump on the holidays by sending me and Amy a passel of presents! We couldn’t resist, and opened ’em up last night! It’s great, having a good friend who lives far enough away that he can’t rely on the USPS for timely delivery!
But now I feel like a heel for getting him a half-assed gift this year. Sigh. At least I have time to come up with something else.
(Update: Sez the official VM fiancee, “You’re not going to post what he got us?”
“I thought it would be tacky,” sez I.
We concluded that I should never trust my judgement on tackiness.
So Tom got us a pair of DVDs (Local Hero and Mick Foley’s Greatest Hits and Misses), three Joss Whedon-inspired books (Seven Seasons of Buffy, Five Seasons of Angel, and Finding Serenity), a 1940s copy of Ring Lardner’s You Know Me Al, and a gift certificate at the website of Roger Langridge, one of my favorite cartoonists. I’ll probably use the latter to buy a page of Roger’s original art.
Tom sez, “Don’t thank me! As my younger brother pointed out during wrapping, ‘So you’re basically getting them books you can read on their john, DVDs you can watch on their TV, and a piece of art that will probably go in the guest room.’
“‘And your point is. . .?'”)