Gift Guide 2010: For Your Friend who is Always Ready for the Rodeo

Ever since this friend of yours found a perfectly worn pair of nutmeg vintage Justins at Beacon's Closet, he's been well nigh impossible. He grew out his beard, and learned to shoot. He calls you "darlin'" and grows shit in his backyard. Last summer he spent a week at a camp in Montana learning how to field dress a moose. The only thing keeping him from truly becoming the Urban Cowboy of his dreams is that he's from Bayshore, and he has no ear for dialect at all. It's hard to be taken seriously in West Texas, when you say "pawtnah" instead of "pardner".

Inspire him, and his cadence, with the wonderful novel, True Grit, upon which the upcoming Coen Brother's remake of the John Wayne classic is based. He already has tickets to the movie on Wednesday, but he'll relish the opportunity to learn how to drop his "g"s just so, and to quote scripture just like Mattie. Not only that- the book is a cult favorite, so you'll even help him boost his cowboy-street-cred. He'll be "y'all"ing properly in no time.