I have purchased for my brother this tree, with irony in mind. I'm not sure exactly which irony, though. There's the retro-nostalgio-irony of it, which isn't really irony at all but is always referred to as such by hipsters. Then there's the fact that it's an artificial version of a tree whose point is that it is real, and the fact that it's a ( Read more... )

On the way to a relative's holiday feast today, we had to change lanes to go around a stranded vehicle.

It was a Hummer H2.

And the owner was pouring fuel from a little gas can into it while a woman stood there looking mortified.

This is the best Christmas ever.