For those of you who celebrate Christmas and for those of you who just like asking for stuff, here's what BwGossipers want for the holidays, material and otherwise. Is anyone up there listening?

a time machine
Pinkberry for life
the secession of New York City
dinner with Katherine Boo
a bean bag chair
more presents under my fb christmas tree
Noah Feldman's babies
a sewing machine and the time to use it
Matilda's powers (for cooking, cleaning, mischief)
a massage
the end of the WGA strike
An internship at Entertainment Weekly Snow
A spot in Karl Kroeber's Children's Literature lecture
Dinner at Masa, paid for by someone else
A racing bike (pink touches, with full winter outfit to go with it)
More humidity in the city
A fully stocked professional kitchen
Friends in high places
The boy
A beat-up turn of the century house
Six consecutive hours of free time
A working command of Portuguese
Fresh rhubarb
A new bike
a spirited (but not necessarily talented) kindergarten class to sing me "Birdhouse in Your Soul" by They Might Be Giants
A not-so-shitty fake ID
Magnetic fields tickets
A paying journalism internship (hah!)
The end of the WGA strike
Functioning wifi
The following 33 1/3rds: Pet Sounds, Loveless, Trout Mask Replica, Another Green World
Pastrami Supreme
A Crack Deli giftcard
Swipe access to JTS/Barnard (emphasis on the former)
Judge, deluxe, with curly fries
NFL Sunday ticket
The secession of Staten Island
The spontaneous smiting (perhaps by lightning?) of Mike Huckabee
Love
A massive blizzard (but not so massive my sister's flight gets diverted)
A snowmobile to rock said blizzard
Provisions
A cozy fire
Houseguests who bring fancy cheese
A computer, the battery of which lasts more than ten minutes
A dog, which does not pee itself all the time
A good, short book or two
A pair of jeans that fits when purchased
A replacement camera, computer cord
Assurance I won't perish on a mountain this break
Unlimited well-bound notebooks
A thick Oriental dorm-room rug, the Orientaler the better
Some plants
Fruitcake
a personal library
Jeanette Winterson's babies
fluency
to travel the world without ever taking a plane
a really sweet bike (who doesn't want a new bike?)
Johnnie Walker Blue Label
A nice apartment so I can get the fuck outta Schapiro (bet you WIEN residents feel the same)
The conviction of Sean Taylor's killers
Some money for ABC so everybody can be happy.
My dog to be alive
a butler exodus
to fall asleep on the beach
la cerveza de costa rica: imperial
a giant sea turtle
Golden Gate Park
a scotch and soda with Woody Allen
the $2000 truffle from Cirque
Domenico Demarco to not die so he can come make pizza for me in CA at my house's wood fired pizza oven
table for two with Lauren Collins
Harvard's financial aid system
A 2nd bout with Kaavya Viswanathan
A calendar with the best pictures from http://icanhascheezburger.com/
A research grant for this summer
The construction of a nearby Trader Joes
A hippopotamus
anything from the jcrew holiday gift giving guide
new scripted tv
plane tickets
getting off the waitlist into american lit since 1945 in January
the pony I�ve been asking for since I was six