If you've waited until the last minute to finish your Christmas
shopping, it's too late to buy online, and the thought of fighting
crowds at the stores this afternoon makes you crave Makers Mark on the rocks, stat, have no fear. Since a magazine subscription can't be
wrapped and placed under the tree anyway, your recipient never has
to know you saved him or her for last. For highly literate, midbrow,
culture fiends, you really can't go wrong with any of these great
magazines: Believer (focusing on books and writers), RADAR (focusing on pop culture, politics, scandal, and style),
Stop Smiling
(for a limited time, buy one subscription, get a free one for yourself), and Time Out (city guide for residents of Chicago, New York or any of the other 120 International Time Out cities).
Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates! This will be my last Gift Guide post since, well, Christmas is tomorrow, but if you want more ideas for completely frivolous ways to spend your money all year long, join me at my site Awesome, where I blog everyday about awesome shit you really don't need, but oughtta get anyway.
