The Gift II

THINGS! We love THINGS!

Every year, one of the issues of New York Magazine I look forward to the most is the annual gift guide, its pages bursting with trinkets and doodads nobody really needs. It lets us indulge in wanting, chuckle at an object’s wackiness or contemplate its usefulness, all in a parade of what seems like endless color. As if to say here, look, THINGS! And we …