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Relaveno Diamond Heart Pendant

Heart-shaped pendant necklace with real diamond
Your choice: platinum plating, rose gold plating, or yellow gold plating (“yellow gold” is just normal gold)
Pendant is a little under an inch, chain is 18"
The perfect gift for a girl in a harbor town as a keepsake while you sail around the globe
Model: DPEN9011 (Who’s in charge of penning the model numbers at relatively small companies like this? Our guess is that somebody at some point is confronted with a “model number” required field on a form and makes it up on the spot. Maybe the field is like a password field that requires a certain number of numbers, alphabetical characters, hyphens and cannot contain any real word or any connection to reality in any way. That would explain a lot.)

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Shine Bright: A Diamond Playlist

My friend’s dad does something I’ll call “Birthday gift back-stocking”: When he finds a good deal on anything that could pass as a birthday gift he buys it and stores it in a closet full of similar items. Then, when a birthday rolls around, he neither scrambles to find something nor overpays. It’s a little heartless and a little genius.

Meh writer @skemmehs here (filling in for @JasonToon while he moves to Australia) explaining why you always need a gift like this pendant necklace for a lady in your life – whether you are one or not. You never know when a fancy diamond-encrusted necklace like this could bail you out of an uncomfortable gifting situation. Let’s call it “Oh-shit gift back-stocking.”

In honor of the shiny stone that graces this pendant’s left ventricle, please enjoy these diamond-themed tunes:

Paul Simon – “Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes” (1986)
I’m not sure if my parents’ record player spun an LP other than Graceland from the years 1986-89. Those tracks are embedded in my soul like so many diamonds.

Jimmy Martin – “Ocean Of Diamonds” (1958)
Mr. Martin’s love seems to have blinded him to simple economics, for if an ocean of diamonds were to exist then the gems would hold no value. Poor guy.

Fabolous ft. Young Jeezy – Diamonds (2007)
A decade in the cellar has not matured this track to any particular ripeness, though the line “They should call me Carat Jeter, maybe Canary Bonds” retains a certain shine.

Tom Waits – Diamonds On My Windshield (1974)
If you’ve never understood what the hype around Tom Waits was about then this track should … do little to convince you.

Seals and Crofts – Diamond Girl (1973)
Never heard of this Bahá’í-believin’ Texas duo? Now you have, unfortunately.

The Bird and the Bee – Diamond Dave
A peppy indie tune about a childhood crush on “Diamond” David Lee Roth and a music video featuring Eric Wareheim? How had I never heard this?

Wendy Hill – “(Gary, Please Don’t Sell) My Diamond Ring” (1965)
They don’t make songs like this anymore. And by that I mean ones with 1:59 runtimes.

Judas Priest – “Diamonds And Rust (1979)”
You might be familiar with the Joan Baez original, but have you heard the surprisingly natural-sounding Priest cover?

T. Rex - “Diamond Meadows” (1970)
A diamond-themed proto-psychedelic rock tune that is vastly superior to that other one (the worst Beatles song of all time), IMO. No cellophane flowers here, just doing it like we’re friends.