Giving gifts is a force to be reckoned with. The gifts we bestow upon others are not only revealing of our relationships and selves, they have consequences. Give the gift of attending a concert with you, for instance, and you could wind up having the time of your life… or trampled on a sticky dance floor beneath a mosh pit. Much more so than with horoscopes or personality tests, I fiercely believe in gifts as omen, judgment, and revelation.
For this reason, I detect favorable fates in Courteney Cox’s choice of “pottery wheel” as a present for great pal Jennifer Anniston on the occasion of her 50th birthday. Cox told Extra on Thursday, “A bunch of us got her a pottery wheel and lessons, even though she’s a great artist, and a table, a big beautiful antique table.”
Here’s why I like the gift: it’s thoughtful, specific, useful, possibly therapeutic, and fairly reasonable in scope as far as celebrity offerings go. On a scale from money to the locket your mother gave you and you thought you’d lost but actually it was traced to a New Mexico pawn shop, I’d give it a seven. It’s the opposite of Kanye West giving Kim Kardashian a million roses and Kenny G for Valentine’s day. Way to go, Courteney! I have the Friends theme song stuck in my head now and am not even mad about it.
GET JEZEBEL RIGHT IN YOUR INBOX
Still here. Still without airbrushing. Still with teeth.
