sacredhands on Oct 29th, 2007Gift Girl Wants To Help Men Overcome Their Gifting Impotence
It’s not easy choosing a gift for a woman, especially if your budget only allows you to express your love at fast food price ranges. The value meal concept has not quite made it into Tiffany’s or Cartier I am unhappy to report as this holiday season approaches. Gift Girl knows your pain, though, so [...]
sacredhands on Oct 25th, 2007OMG Swami Conversational Robot Neiman Marcus Christmas Gift Catalog
Neiman Marcus released their new Christmas catalog. As usual, it contains oddball gifts for hard to please husbands and wives. If you have a geek for a husband, then chances are the Swami Conversational Robot is your AI knight in coding armor.
The pitch: “The OMG (that’s “oh my god” for those of you not [...]
sacredhands on Dec 25th, 2006Christmas Card Travels Back and Forth for 54 Years!
© Tyler Sipe, Record-Eagle
What a great Christmas story! Two couples have exchanged the same Christmas card for 54 years and running. Artists call it postal art. Every day people call it a tradition of the heart. While it’s true the internet makes communication a thoughtless gesture, the exchange of a good old-fashioned card sure makes [...]
sacredhands on Dec 15th, 2006Hadden Sundblom The Santa Claus Coke
Hadden Sundblom’s depictions of Santa Claus for Coca-Cola celebrate their 75th anniversary this season. We suggest drinking a spot of green tea, though, instead of a coke while watching it.
sacredhands on Dec 5th, 200617th Annual Christmas on Main Street Stockbridge MA
Each year the Stockbridge Chamber of Commerce invites vintage car owners to park their cars along Main Street in order to re-create painter Norman Rockwell’s Main Street painting. The 1955 red Mercury seen here mirrors the car you see in the painting that’s making its way down Main Street with a Christmas tree on its [...]
sacredhands on Dec 4th, 2006Snowballing or How the Naughty Elves Made Pornaments
Coming hot on the snow tracks of a Maine brewery selling Santa’s Butt Beer, we, the messenger, bring you news of some new Christmas tree ornaments on the market. They aren’t for everyone, but this being America, where the all mighty buck guides our behavior far more than morality, what the hey, it’s all God’s [...]
sacredhands on Nov 20th, 2006Wonderful Life II George Bailey at Odds with His Son
It’s a Wonderful Life
Hollywood studios sure know how to turn Christmas into a year-round affair. They have perfected the art of giving the same gift — sequels — to themselves in an attempt to cash in on the same warm and fuzzy feeling an audience had the first time around. Nothing is sacred, not even [...]
sacredhands on Oct 16th, 2006Grandma, Is That a Fruitcake or an Explosive?
As Christmas approaches, beware of what you mail, especially if it’s a fruitcake. Some people take their fruitcakes personally.
In December 2002, Greene showed up at the Magnolia post office to mail fruitcakes to relatives and friends when, her lawsuit says, a postal worker asked her, “What kind of explosives do you have in here?” before [...]