December 10, 2004

O KWANZAA TREE

"It's beginning to look a lot like Kwanzaa", as the old song goes. "Everywhere you go/Take a look in the five-and-ten/Glistening once again/With spinner rims and silver bling aglow." Except you can't buy Mark Steyn's new book until Kwanzaa is over. Maybe it'll make the perfect gift for Eaasta.

Meanwhile, Cobra bowling shirts, Atomic coffee brewers, and cowboy golf art might answer your Kwanzaa/Christmas/Hanukkah gifting needs. Or maybe you could treat someone to a barramundi fishing tour.

Posted by Tim Blair at December 10, 2004 03:47 AM
Comments

I can personally recommend Cowboy Golf Art, We have "At the End of His Rope" hanging in the cafe in our building here in West Texas.

Posted by: Wallace-Midland Texas at December 10, 2004 at 06:54 AM

Dammit - when i read Cobra bowling shirts, I was expecting to find merchandise sold by G I Joe's sworn enemy!

Posted by: attila at December 10, 2004 at 07:51 AM

Anyone for a nukechino?

Posted by: crash at December 10, 2004 at 09:20 AM

Cowboy golf art. The missus will be pleased. Finally something worthy to replace the dogs playing billiards picture on my shed wall.

Posted by: slatts at December 10, 2004 at 10:28 AM

I'm giving custom made photo refrigerator magnets to eighteen of my friends. I have too many friends anyway.

Posted by: Fred Boness at December 10, 2004 at 10:34 AM

How's that retina coming along, Slatts? Damn bicycles ... there oughta be a law!

Posted by: tim at December 10, 2004 at 11:01 AM

Vision gradually returning. Pain relieved by generous doses of Panadole and Jamieson's whiskey.

Posted by: slatts at December 10, 2004 at 11:14 AM

Is that Mark Steyn book all new stuff, or just columns?

Posted by: Harry Hutton at December 10, 2004 at 01:44 PM

An awful lot of Australian bookstores don't sell work by Mark Steyn, or only sell a book that looks like it's more about theatre than politics.

Posted by: Andjam at December 10, 2004 at 04:56 PM

Broadway Babies Say Goodnight? I read that. It's good.

Posted by: Harry Hutton at December 10, 2004 at 05:04 PM

Is that Mark Steyn book all new stuff, or just columns?

The publishing blurb at Amazon touts it as "his first major book", and as far as I could tell from several (p)reviews a while back (did I imagine it, or was the book originally scheduled for October 2004?) it's indeed a full-length book on global politics this time, not another collection of essays (not that those weren't genius themselves, mind you). I haven't read Broadway Babies Say Goodnight, so I'm pretty curious what Mark is capable of in longer form. Knowing him, I'm sure he won't be disappointing.

Posted by: PW at December 10, 2004 at 05:50 PM

Mark Steyn's a theater critic (in the New Criterion, I think -- sure I have the magazine linked on my blog but I haven't read it in months) and he's also been a movie critic. I used to read his columns on the old American Spectator website, which is now gone or in Google-cache hell or something; they were hilarious.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at December 10, 2004 at 10:03 PM

Truth be told I am kind of partial to Bath tub Aerobics and a Glass Putter.

Posted by: Marc at December 11, 2004 at 12:56 AM