For those of you who celebrate Christmas and for those of you who just like asking for stuff, here’s what BwGossipers want for the holidays, material and otherwise. Is anyone
giftup there listening?

a time machine

Pinkberry for life

the secession of New York City

dinner with Katherine Boo

a bean bag chair

more presents under my fb christmas tree

Noah Feldman’s babies

a sewing machine and the time to use it

Matilda’s powers (for cooking, cleaning, mischief)

a massage

the end of the WGA strike

An internship at Entertainment Weekly Snow

A spot in Karl Kroeber’s Children’s Literature lecture

Dinner at Masa, paid for by someone else

A racing bike (pink touches, with full winter outfit to go with it)

More humidity in the city

A fully stocked professional kitchen

Friends in high places

The boy

A beat-up turn of the century house

Six consecutive hours of free time

A working command of Portuguese

Fresh rhubarb

A new bike

a spirited (but not necessarily talented) kindergarten class to sing me “Birdhouse in Your Soul” by They Might Be Giants

A not-so-shitty fake ID

Magnetic fields tickets

A paying journalism internship (hah!)

The end of the WGA strike

Functioning wifi

The following 33 1/3rds: Pet Sounds, Loveless, Trout Mask Replica, Another Green World

Pastrami Supreme

cat A Crack Deli giftcard

Swipe access to JTS/Barnard (emphasis on the former)

Judge, deluxe, with curly fries

NFL Sunday ticket

The secession of Staten Island

The spontaneous smiting (perhaps by lightning?) of Mike Huckabee

Love

A massive blizzard (but not so massive my sister’s flight gets diverted)

A snowmobile to rock said blizzard

Provisions

A cozy fire

Houseguests who bring fancy cheese

A computer, the battery of which lasts more than ten minutes

A dog, which does not pee itself all the time

A good, short book or two

A pair of jeans that fits when purchased

A replacement camera, computer cord

Assurance I won’t perish on a mountain this break

Unlimited well-bound notebooks

A thick Oriental dorm-room rug, the Orientaler the better

Some plants

Fruitcake

a personal library

Jeanette Winterson‘s babies

fluency

to travel the world without ever taking a plane

a really sweet bike (who doesn’t want a new bike?)

Johnnie Walker Blue Label

A nice apartment so I can get the fuck outta Schapiro (bet you WIEN residents feel the same)

The conviction of Sean Taylor’s killers

Some money for ABC so everybody can be happy.

My dog to be alive

a butler exodus

to fall asleep on the beach

la cerveza de costa rica: imperial

a giant sea turtle

Golden Gate Park

a scotch and soda with Woody Allen

the $2000 truffle from Cirque

Domenico Demarco to not die so he can come make pizza for me in CA at my house’s wood fired pizza oven

table for two with Lauren Collins

elvesHarvard’s financial aid system

A 2nd bout with Kaavya Viswanathan

A calendar with the best pictures from http://icanhascheezburger.com/

A research grant for this summer

The construction of a nearby Trader Joes

A hippopotamus

anything from the jcrew holiday gift giving guide

new scripted tv

plane tickets

getting off the waitlist into american lit since 1945 in January

the pony I�ve been asking for since I was six