Ellen's gift guide - continued again

I am always making an effort to try and not buy things with Amazon but I redoubled my efforts once I saw the $500 million boat. Imagine what someone with a soul could do with $500 million? Here are some fun places to do mail order gifts: I also like Harry & David because I love pears and cheese.

Li-lac Chocolates - Manhattan’s oldest chocolatier

Zabar’s - This is a place to get food on the Upper Best, sorry, I mean Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, which is where your girl here grew up. I can close my eyes and smell it right now, walking from the cheese section, turning right, heading towards all the prepared foods down where the strudels and the knishes are…and then if go upstairs, you'll find every possible cooking apparatus known to man. I have spent many hours here.

I know this isn’t new information, but I like talking about New York. Sue me.

Speaking of NYC, Nobody Told Me is almost six years old I think? Such a great bar on the Upper West Side, and the jerk wings…oh man. I guess some people might call it Morningside Heights? Or something else, I dunno.

Here is the ATM that stole $20 from me on Avenue A a couple weeks ago. Are we surprised?