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I haven’t been to a white elephant party in ages. Years ago I used to attend a really awesome one thrown every year by a group of friends, long lost now. It was formal, which was unusual for our crowd at the time, and as I dimly recall there was a lot of creative bartending going on. I remember a certain green drink. What was it called… an Elf? I can’t remember, but it was yummy, too easy to drink. The best part was everyone brought a white elephant gift and a gift for charity. Way fun.

So look at these amazing things Archie McPhee has for sale. Here’s hoping somebody throws a white elephant party this year, because oh man. That black cat Santa is fucked up.

I heart Archie McPhee.

Earlier this week I got together for some scrabble with a few friends. Except we didn’t play scrabble. We tried a new game that M. found called Bananagrams. It has 144 tiles instead of 100, multiple Qs and Zs, and the object is to use the letters you draw to very quickly make connected words, like a crossword or a scrabble board. After we played a bunch of games — super fun games — we decided to attempt to use all the tiles to make one giant themed crossword. Theme: Science Fiction. And we did it! Mostly, anyway. Not all the words are proper nouns, but most are. Woo hoo!

I think maybe this is the first time I’ve been inclined to say “What a way to go!”

Read the whole article if you have time — it’s short and full of crazy stuff.

Exercise that big vocabulary of yours, and help people while you’re at it!

It looks broken.

Now that the picture is taken, I like the colors more than the subject.