Borrowed from many sources - The Wish List meme

Step One
Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.


Step Two

Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

( Santa Baby, slip a Gibson Guitar under the tree ... for me )

Never a dull moment

No siree ... not in San Francisco - especially not while riding the bus to work this morning!

Case in point: One particular stop was at Turk and Hyde - right in the heart of the Tenderloin area. Great neighborhood - if you're looking for a crackwhore, or like to watch people dealing with their DTs and coming down from crystal and smack highs.

Anyways, the bus stops, and a good number of people get off. While the back door is splayed wide open, one of the more colorful people walks up to the doors and shouts "Everybody put your hands up and give me $29.00!". Then he walks off and laughs.


I dunno ... kind of hard to put credence in the threats of someone whose weapons of choice are a carton of whole milk and a Hostess Honey Bun.