Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The hardest holiday presents to give are pop-culture presents. Posterity is elusive, thoughtfulness fleeting. Fast, cheap and loud may be what they ask for, but the sell-by date looks stamped across the wrapping. You think you’re showing how closely you know your pal’s tastes, but you reek of Spencer’s, circa 1979. And yet, this is not a no-win: There is an art to giving pop culture. It involves hyperspecificity and an illusion of exclusivity. Many of the following gift ideas are on Amazon, but it won’t seem like that.
