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Cool Stuff We Love
December 2006
Cool Gifts
Sharpie Mini
Our Ed-in-Chief was happy with the performance of original Sharpie markers
(black or blue, thank you very much)...until Webmaster Extraordinaire
attached a
Sharpie®
Mini to one of Ed’s Christmas packages...And Ed noticed
the handy metal loop attached to the Sharpie Mini's cap.
“Hey, these are made for laminates!” exclaimed Ed. “They’re the exact size
to hang off a lanyard.”
“Or a keychain,” offered Web.
“Or a tour bus Christmas tree?” wondered Ed?
Since
Sharpie®
Minis don’t have the seemingly endless ink supply of their
original counterparts, they’re probably not practical for every application.
But for special jobs, like hanging around the neck of your handy dandy
guitar tech, or fitting neatly inside the pocket of your manager’s pants, we
think they’re just fab.
See’s Candies
Wanna send a gift to your favorite chocoholic? Your choices are many: you’ve
got your Godiva, your Russell Stovers, your Ethel M, and a few European
boutiques. Our resident on-staff chocolate gourmand (Ed again) has tried
them all.
Ed’s favorite? See’s. (The favorite from the favorite? A two-pound Chocolate
and Variety box, to be exact. Ed likes it instead of a birthday cake.)
Founded in 1921, See’s still makes many of the same recipes Mary See cooked
up in her own kitchen. Ed loves the “freshness of the chocolate compared to
other brands” (yeah, whatever). We love the fun of going into the
‘30’s-white-kitchen-look shops to make our purchase (and getting the day's free
sample). But most of all, we all love that See's is easily orderable online
and ships pretty much anywhere your former California chocolate lover may
reside.
We also love that for those who’d like something yummy that’s slightly less
caloric, See’s also makes a mean chocolate or butterscotch lollipop.
Finally, we love that See’s is even good for useless trivia: the downtown
Los Angeles factory was the inspiration for Kramer’s Kandy Kitchens in that
famous episode of I Love Lucy.
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