The holiday season - It falls somewhere between the Friday after Thanksgiving (otherwise known as “Black Friday") and New Year's Day (when everyone nurses their hangovers) and while retailers would like you to think of it as an inebriating time of joy, cheer and smiles across the land, unless you live in the middle of fucking nowhere with little more expected of you than a fruitcake for you Aunt Tilly, the holidays are a lot more stressful than those Hallmark commercials make it seem. Notorious for crowded department stores, crappy weather, debt and high suicide rates, the holidays - whatever your religion - are more a test of endurance than a time to sit on our asses and drink eggnog. It's no wonder Santa only pokes his head out of the North Pole once a season.
If you've the fortitude enough to order gifts online in a timely manor and have your wrapping done before December 1, then congratulations, pass go and collect $200. You've managed to avoid the corporate rampage known as Holiday Shopping. But if you're like the rest of us slackers and don't think about gift-giving until those critical days in December, fear not. We've compiled a survival guide for the 2006 Yuletide Apocalypse.
BeGoths: When most of us gals were growing up there was only one source of low self-esteem. Luckily, Bleeding Edge Ltd. came up with an answer to the blonde-headed bimbo otherwise known as Barbie: BeGoths. These lovely little darlings are a bit “healthier" looking than their blonde nemesis (well, as healthy as you can look for living-dead dolls) with a few added embellishments such as piercing, tats, multi-colored hair and a wardrobe only the craftiest goth could concoct. Series five of the 12" fashion dolls will hit the shelves just in time for the holiday season and with names like Ivanna Scream, Esperanza De Muerte, Red Riding Storm, Annabelle Lee and Leda Swanson, how can you resist? The dolls are sexy (and as my husband would point out, stacked) goth-chic and unconventional. Each doll has her own twisted bio that reveals her favorite animal, hobbies and dislikes. Ivanna Scream for example enjoys, among other things, entomology, Turbonegro and vintage hearses, but frowns upon chopsticks and acrylic nails. BeGoths are available in a variety of shapes, sizes and series, and can be found at various comic stores as well as the BeGoths website. A must have for girls of all ages, dead or alive: www.begoths.com.
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