If you're stressed about what to get me as a gift, here are things I'd love

Our house is verging on hoarding, so I'd prefer gifts that can be used up, like football tickets or gift cards for restaurants.

STUFF
The "reMarkable" paper tablet
A USB bluetooth adapter (for my desktop computer at home), such as this.

SMELLING GOOD

• Cologne: Jean-Paul Gaultier, "Le Beau Male"
• Shower gel: Body Shop's "Activist"
• Cologne: Body Shop's Activist Eau De Toilette For Men
• Any Body Shop product in the "Activist" line

WHISKEY

Scotch is best, and Islay is the best region of Scotland. I love the smoky and peaty stuff. But I've never met a whiskey I didn't like (other than novelty flavoured whiskeys; they're not really my thing).

FUN
Car emblems/plaques:

• Darwin
• Flying Spaghetti monster
• Cthulu
• Science

ENTERTAINMENT

• Ticket(s) to a football game.
• Gift cards for movie theatres

CASH
...to help pay off tuition debt and start-up business costs.


GIFT CARDS

• 3 Leaf Wellness Centre
• Lion's Breath yoga studio (right near my place!)
• Bike stores (Mountain Equipment Co-op and Western Cycle are near my place!)
• Google Play store
• Restaurants
• Gas stations
• Movie theatres
• Universal Barber Shop on Whyte Avenue 
• Dry Cleaners ("Todd Cleaners" is near me)

MUSIC

• The album "In Deep Owl" by HBS (a.k.a. Ben Shepherd)
• The album "Songs for Persephone" by Mimi Goese & Ben Neill
• Any album by Ben Neill other than "Goldbug"
• The album "Bastard Complex" by Spite.
• The Album "Little Stars Hung Upside Down" by Beatrice Nine

ART
One of these works of art (listed in order of my preference):

Repurposed discarded paintings, parody works by Dave Pollot

Al Dente (Flying Spaghetti Monster)

The First to Know (War of the Worlds)

Input (Short Circuit)

We Come in Pieces (Space Invaders)

Habitat 2 (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Colony (Alien)

On a Bender (Furturama)

Earth That Was (Firefly)

Coexist (Mars Attacks)

One and Itself (Transformers)

We Fed Him (Godzilla)

Why Not? (Futurama)

ECTO1 (Ghostbusters)

The Loneliest Number (Dr Who)

Outside, Looking in (Futurama)

Wishbone (Futurama)

On a Bender II (Futurama)

He's Full (Godzilla)

The Day Before The Day The Earth Stood Still (The Day the Earth Stood Still)

Stay Puft (Ghostbusters)

Stay Puft II (Ghostbusters)

Till the End (Chuckie / "Child's Play)

The Pursuits of Men (Lord of the Rings)

Makin' Like a Tree (Back to the Future)

Pedestrian (Quasimodo / "The Hunchback of Notre Dame")

Works by A. Andrew Gonzalez

The Summoning of the Muse
The Oracle of the Pearl
The Creatrix
Amore / Alchemico d'Amore
The Song of Sophia

Works by Peter Westerman
Nocturnal
The Dripping Dream
Fall into Winter

Works by my other favourite artists:
Monster art by Jerad Marantz
Lori Earley (especially blue-haired works)
Grim Reaper art by Otto Schmidt, such as these

AUDIOBOOKS(for long drives):

• Every Day is an Atheist Holiday by Penn Jillette
• Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges
• Bright-sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
• What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings--and Life (A Penguin Special from Portfolio) by Laura Vanderkam
• The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane
• Build Your Resilience by Donald Robertson
• Guide to Stoicism by St. George William Joseph Stock
• The end of growth by Jeff Rubin
• Subliminal by Leonard Mlodinow
• Heresy by Michael Coren 
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg 
• How To Stubbornly Refuse To Make Yourself Miserable About Anything--yes, Anything! by Albert Ellis
• Willpower by John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister
• Book by Chuck Palahniuk: 
• Stranger than Fiction
• Book by Christopher Hitchens:  
• The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer
• Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay by Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyenyi