Good gift-giving tip: Ricky, can destroy any toy imaginable in less than 30 seconds, but if you go ginormous, as was the case with my niece and nephew, the gift may live to see a second day… Saw Los Angeles Laker Steve Blake outside a restaurant with his kids. Steve won a national championship for my alma mater, Maryland, and I geeked-out and literally told him I loved him. I just happened to be wearing a Maryland sweatshirt at the time, and he really liked that... Saw Zero Dark Thirty, and it is tense and amazing. Definitely a top tenner of the year… Oh, and it looks like both of us got something novelty-sized to munch on: