Today after work we went shopping for Christmas presents. We planned to go here, here, and there, but we only ended up going to the first here, the Penguin store. “Why stop at only the first here?,” you may ask. Well that’s because after we whisked into the store we realized everyone in the store was drinking out of little plastic cups. Low and behold there was an impromptu bar set up in the back! “How odd,” we said to ourselves.

A little bit confused, but more than a bit curious, we made our way to the back and got on line for a drink. “Vodka and uh…this thing,” we said as we picked up a glass bottle with red liquid in it. “Vodka and an Izzy [?],” the dude behind the counter said as he stared at our DFA pin. “Uh, yeah, sure,” we replied. We were a bit confused as to why the dude was giving us a funny look at our DFA pin until we realized that “Losing My Edge” by LCD Soundsystem was humming through the audio speakers.

Some girl in the middle of the room was “DJ”ing on an iBook, pulling songs from several different iPods. There were lots of Black Book magazines on the sales counter. And didn’t we blow past some guy holding a clipboard at the front doors? Oh, oops. We had unintentionally crashed a private party.

After we finished our drink we left, now too sleepy to go shopping because of the vodkfun. So we just went home and made some food and bought no presents.

Drinking and forgetting those you love. Truly the spirit of Christmas lives.