Last week I wrote a gift guide for a bunch of artists, writers, and Chicago people that I'm a fan of. Today, let's talk about me. If there's one constant for the last 30 years of my life, it's that I love making merch. Between my own little webstore, the Says Who Merch Store and the Rebel Spirit Spirit Ship, I've made a lot of great merch for you. Here's some highlights that you might want to put on your list or grab for someone else:

Let's kick things off festive, with perhaps the best piece of merch I've ever made: Santa Dan's Sticker Stocking. This little mesh stocking is filled with 10 random stickers produced over the last four years for the Says Who Sticker Club, plus a little cute food squish, a Ring Pop, some Bazooka gum (with the comics), an ICE whistle, and a monkey with a parachute. Inspired by Mike Montiero's Sock of Shit, this is a fun Christmas gift to maybe you or someone else. However: it's going to sell out very quickly. Last weekend I did a surprise drop and they sold out in an hour. This weekend's drop is the last chance for this! Sorry folks, these are now sold out.

But, don't worry: if you want stickers, sign up for the Says Who Sticker Club, available to our "Chamber of Commerce" $10 Patreon supporters, and you get a sticker in the mail every month!

While we're talking about Says Who, I am currently wearing this OH NO hoodie, which was just released on the Says Who Merch Store and which pretty much captures this current moment in time, set in enormous, all-caps Cooper Black, the greatest of typefaces. It's also super soft.

Speaking of capturing this moment in time, you can also get a hat with me and Maureen, Muppet-style, hanging out in a trash can. You know, if that's your thing.

Over the last year plus, I wrote a 13-essay series looking back at the entire run of Punk Planet, and to commemorate that, I rereleased a classic Punk Planet T-shirt. Literally built from scraps from our office copier, it's a classic design now available again.

And, did you know the Punk Planet book, We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet the Collected Interviews is still in print? Over two decades and still going strong. So many of these interviews are still super vital, plus it looks great on a bookshelf.

While you're grabbing things for your bookshelf, pick up We Are Civic Media, a book I helped edit that came out this year. It's a collection of two dozen essays written by people that have charted their own trajectory in life, built outside the mainstream, and fought like hell the whole time. It's a super inspiring collection that I'm so happy to have played a hand in creating. Plus, it's gorgeous.

Akilah Hughes (who has an essay in We Are Civic Media) and I are gearing up for the second season of Rebel Spirit (more on that in '26), but in the meantime, you can get the iconic BISCUITS sweatshirt to cheer on your favorite team, or food. Your choice.

What goes well with a a biscuit? How about a Rebel Spirit Butter T?

My classic TRYING patch is ready to ship your way and makes a great stocking stuffer.

If you're not a patch person, you can always grab a TRYING sticker sheet. Or, if you're both, get the bundle and save a little.

Finally, this one won't be for under the tree, but I'm trying something new this year: A small printed collection of my favorite blog posts from 2025. I think we should be leaning into physical objects right now for a whole bunch of reasons, and so I'm curating some of my favorite blog posts from this year into a small, perfect-bound collection called They Can't Take Us All. You can sit back during the cold winter months and read essays about fighting the Klan, about AI slop, about Chicago's pushback against ICE, and more. I'm really proud of the writing I've done this year and am excited to try this little experiment. NOTE: THIS IS A PREORDER, hence why you can't get it under your tree, and will ship in late January. By preordering though, you help me to know how many of these to print and also you'll save $3.