I'm a few days tardy on this, but what can you do?
This year's Christmas was all about books and movies for me. I got an impressive pile of DVDs: Matewan, The Return of the Secaucus 7, The Dark Knight (on Blu-Ray, from Tammy), Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Strangers on a Train (also from Tammy) and The Ultimate Bladerunner Collection (which includes a new "Final Cut" version that I've never seen) along with a more eclectic assortment of books than I've ever received at one time: Watching the Watchmen (by Dave Gibbons), Outliers (by Malcolm Gladwell; a great choice by Tammy), A Confederacy of Dunces (by John Kennedy Toole), JPod (by Douglas Coupland), and two John Sayles novels (Union Dues and Los Gusanos). I'm tearing through Outliers right now, but had to give up on A Confederacy of Dunces after about 15 pages when it became apparent that it just wasn't my kind of reading material. Oh well, it was certainly worth a try on Vicki's part!
Notably missing this year were the "classic Christmas categories" of comics (unless one counts the Gibbons book or the three superhero movies), video games (perhaps Vicki feared that nothing could compete with Resistance 2), and anything New York Rangers-related (although I can't really fault Vicki on that last one!). Nevertheless, it was still a very good haul and should provide me with many, many hours of entertainment over the coming months.
Vicki got new boots and a pepper mill from Tammy, as well as some spa-time, a new blouse, many books, and Wall-E and the Bourne Trilogy on DVD from yours truly.
Tammy now owns a piece of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer history as we gave her a page of original artwork from the current series, along with a grill/griddle contraption for her kitchen, a new video game and the first 3 Buffy Season Eight trade paperbacks.
In other words, we all made out like bandits, as usual! :-)
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