The List
It's easier to buy things than talk about feelings, so get dad something from Thrillist's Dad's Day HQ.
211 Avenue A, at 13th; 212.388.9844
From the Bowery Wine guy, this breezy corner bar offers a sunlit front with open sidewalk-facing windows, double-height tables, and a pressed-tin covered bar; and a dimly lit back, sporting a modern rock juke and a medley of unassuming but comfy sofas. Plans are to serve comfort food in the next few weeks (sliders, mini grilled cheese, pizza bites, etc), but for now they're guzzle-only, with ten taps (Radeberger, UFO Hefeweizen, an eponymous Destination lager...), $3 jello shots (the Jello-Rita w/ Gummi Worm; the Fuzzy Navel w/ Sour Patch Kid), and cocktails like "Truck Stop Lemonade" and "Slappledapolous Islands Rum Punch" -- whose tongue-twisting safety feature makes it impossible to order a second round.
The prodigiously acronymed TTLLCAB is a user-generated catalogue of otherwise innocuous, everyday items that happily resemble twig and berries: from the transpo-centric (gas station oil stains, a bicycle seat), to the sanitary ("Left by Purell...after being lit on fire on a desk and wiped to the floor"), to the foodie (very disturbing pancakes). Awesomely, the whole thing was put together to promote the Bee-Gees heavy metal tribute band Tragedy -- i.e., the sentiment you feel every time you're surprised with cocknballs.
Si ves algo, di algo, at Candb.Aidan.net
20% off a medley of Dad's Day gift sets, which include mixed badger-hair shaving brushes and Taylor of Old Bond Street shaving cream, plus a gift card for either a Traditional Shave (hot towel, facial massage, shave, cold towel), an Ultimate Shave (the above, plus an after-shave mask and hot towels soaked in lemon oil), or a Haircut and Ultimate Shave. Each set comes pre-wrapped, showing Dad he's raised an admirably cheap and lazy son.
Enter promo code Thrillist at NYShavingCompany.com for the 20% discount
Straight out of New Zealand, these minimalist shades come in four varieties all named after architects (the slate, angle-framed Le Corbusier, the rounded and white Gehry...), and sport gradient tint UV400 lenses coated in CR-39 -- a strong plastic originally used to guard B-17 bomber fuel tanks from flak, now used to hide your tears as you endure it.
Buy online at OakNYC.com
From a lifelong surfer who rides pipe the world over but calls NY home, this online, surf-specific workout program provides detailed training regimens (specific arm-and-shoulder paddling exercises, ab strengthening stretches, etc), vid tutorials, and a workout log to help you get in the peak physical condition needed to master Long Island's deadly two-foot swells.
Do it bra. Do it. AmpedSurf.com
