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Back To School
Rodney Dangerfield’s finest post-“Caddyshack” hour, “Back to School” is the perfect way to calm those night-before-first day-of-school nerves. Bonus: Kurt Vonnegut cameo. No, really.
$8 at Amazon
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My Life Story Journal
A guided journal with room for 100 years of entries. This would make an excellent gift for a new parent, a baby book that grows up with the baby.
$65 at Charles and Marie
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Maker’s Notebook
A graph paper journal, excellent for recording the baby’s last feeding and most recent bowel movements, or plotting the nursery layout.
In addition to all the blank pages, the journal also includes twenty bonus pages of reference material, like electronics symbols, resistor codes, weights and measures, basic conversions, the amount of caffeine in different caffeinated beverages, and how to say “Hello, World!” in various computer languages
$20 at Maker Shed
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Star Trek: The Original Series
If there’s a new baby in the house, your TiVo won’t be able to keep up with the demand.
$188 at Amazon
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A Field Guide to Weeds
The Curiosity Shoppe description says it best, ”A Field Guide to Weeds by Kim Beck is not a book, it’s a surprise.” Inside you’ll find colorful plant silhouettes. An excellent journal for someone who likes to write in the margins.
$25 at Curiosity Shoppe
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Carma Sutra: The Auto-Erotic Handbook
Relive your high school years, this time with less fumbling.
$11 at Amazon
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The Guide To Doing Me
Don’t make me say it out loud.
A book that let’s you fill in your preferences and indicate your preferred erogenous zones.
$10 at Urban Outfitters
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Erotic Massage: 50 Sexy Techniques to Get You in the Mood
Turns out your high school health textbook skipped over a few things.
$12 at Amazon
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Stencil101
A how-to stencil guide with twenty-five card stock stencils. Stencil lampshades, walls, and clothing.
Now if only you could get the cat to hold still.
$25 at fred flare
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Emergency Box Of Cards
You’re the type of person who always selects the perfect card for each recipient. This box is for the rest of us.
$14 at Rock Paper Scissors
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All Known Metal Bands
Just what it sounds like, this book is a list of the names of all known metal bands. Use it to name your houseplants, your car, or your first born.
$15 at McSweeny's
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Stack Independent Magazine Subscription
Stack curates independently published magazines, and sends you the best of the best once a month. The site says:
“Each delivery of Stack is a surprise so there’s no way of knowing what will come next. However, every magazine delivered by Stack comes with a guarantee that it represents the very best of independent magazine publishing, targeted at young, intelligent readers who appreciate an alternative to the mainstream.”
$146 at Stack
(Price converted from British Pounds.)
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Film Movement Subscription
A genius movie-of-the-month club for film lovers. Every month, subscribers receive a feature-length, award-winning film and a short from one of the top film festivals. These are movies that aren’t yet available to the public.
You can print out or email the gift notification, so this makes an excellent last minute gift. If $132 is too steep, Film Movement also offers six-month ($68) and three-month ($36) subscriptions.
$132 at Film Movement
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McSweeney’s Book Release Club
Book release club subscribers receive the next ten McSweeney’s books as they’re released. When you see the first book, you’ll agree that the price is a steal for the quality of books they produce. Each one will be an excellent addition to any personal library.
$100 at McSweeny's
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The 1000 Journals Project
Two hundred fifty of the best entries from The 1,000 Journals Project. Since 2000, a San Francisco-based artist has been leaving journals around town and sending them out into the world to see what people will create. Here’s the answer.
$23 at Amazon
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The Believer Bundle Jumble
The Believer is a monthly magazine for readers and writers that feels good in your hands. It features luxurious book reviews and in-depth interviews with authors printed on heavy-stock paper. Individual issues are about $10, and a yearly subscription is $45, so this jumble pack of ten issues is an amazing deal.
$25 at McSweeny's
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The Berliner Ensemble Thanks You All
An envelope containing twenty-eight of Marcel Dzama’s quiet and sometimes disquieting prints. All suitable for framing. (Click on that link. Do it.)
The packet also includes a scrapbook, an insert card, and an oversized poster.
$42 at McSweeny's
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The Thing Quarterly
The Thing Quarterly is a surprise subscription produced by smart people. I’ll let them explain it in more detail:
“Each year, four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited by the editors to create an everyday object that somehow incorporates text. This object will be reproduced and hand packed at a wrapping party and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers with the help of the United States Postal Service.”
This year’s issues will be produced by visual artists Allora & Calzadilla, writer Jonathan Lethem, and experimental geographer, artist and writer Trevor Paglen, and visual artist Ryan Gander.
$140 at The Thing
(One year subscription, four issues.)
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Achewood: The Great Outdoor Fight
Your new summer love has an end-of-summer birthday. If you give them this and they appreciate it, you just quadrupled your relationship’s shelf-life.
$10 at Amazon
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Things that Fall from the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier
You and I, we prefer our poolside book covers not to be festooned with lipsticks and frivolous shoes. But that doesn’t mean we don’t want to be charmed by our beach reads.
$12 at Amazon
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Wallpaper City Guides
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