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The 2012 Head Butler Holiday Gift Guide: Classics Edition - When I compiled the 2012 Holiday Gift Guide, my focus was only on new stuff. Imagine my horror at 3 AM when a nightmare woke me --- the ghost of holidays
The 2015 Holiday Gift Guide - THE AMAZON LINK: There are now two ways to get to Amazon and support this site. The old: Click on the “Buy it from Amazon” link on any review and
The 2016 Holiday Gift Guide: Bless us, every one. - HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE FOR CHILDREN: 27 non-digital suggestions. Click here. --- On Facebook and the blogs and in the zip code where we used to live --- the zip code where you
The 2017 Holiday Gift Guide - HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDES The Holiday Gift Guide The Food Edition Gifts for Kids The Luxury Edition --- ALL-TIME TOP 10 CLASSIC GIFTS Timex Easy Reader Watch Esquire: “The simple retro face looks cooler than some watches that cost
The 2017 Holiday Gift Guide: Food Edition - HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDES The Holiday Gift Guide The Food Edition Gifts for Kids The Luxury Edition ---- Bertolt Brecht wrote, “First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.” Agreed. At the holidays, food seems to
The Amazon Echo and “Alexa,” your new best friend - READER COMMENT #1: Brilliant! My mother has dementia and asks me every day what day it is. READER COMMENT #2: I got one for Christmas, and I must say it is
The Beauty Part: Summer 2011 - Ugly sears. It seems to last forever. Beauty is evanescent. It seems to fade fast. 2011 has been a banner year for Ugly and its sidekick Stupid. And considering the ratio of Ugly
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The Best of Butler: August 2008 - You can feel the remnants of summer now. If you're like me, you want these gorgeous days to linger. At the same time, you can feel excitement in
The Best of Summer, 2012 - It’s that time again. My brood has stood guard over offices, camps and this little corner of the Web all summer, and now it’s our turn to flee. This year
The Best of the Best, 2007 - 'Tis the season when critics around the world serve up their Ten Best lists. For HeadButler.com, that's kind of impossible. The mission of this site is to pick through the dross, the
The Book of Mormon - “The Book of Mormon” is still in previews, but you don’t have to be a genius to know it’s going to be a monster hit. Correction: It already is. Never
The Cholita Climbers - I don’t know how I found the video, but it imprinted deeply --- when I feel weary in spirit or body, I try to turn my thoughts to these women,
The Coolest Kicks: Tretorn & Stan Smith Sneakers - When I run into people who knew me in the Pleistocene, they often say, “You haven’t changed.” What they mean is: “You’re still wearing the same clothes you were wearing half
The Delta variant: It’s moving faster. It’s deadlier. It either is or is close to the most infectious agent on the earth in recorded medicine. - Infuriating, isn’t? You did everything right. Stayed home. Masked everywhere. Gained weight, walked it off. Tipped delivery people generously, donated to food banks, cheered essential workers at 7 PM. Said goodbye
The Filson Briefcase - READER TESTIMONIAL: I've had a Filson briefcase since the early 2000s. Mine survived a car fire and the laptop inside was fine. It was a dark and stormy night, but I
The Fitbit Wireless Activity & Sleep Wristband - I first heard about the Fitbit in a New Yorker piece by David Sedaris. It’s a one-joke story. Sedaris buys a Fitbit, aims to walk 4 miles a day, and,
The Flu - Charles Blow, New York Times columnist, on Twitter: “This is a most horrible day. One of my closest friends in the world lived in Dallas. He was battling the flu.
The French Way - There was a State dinner for French President François Hollande, and all that American media found of interest was his inability to bring a date --- hardly surprising, as Hollande
