What a week (DEROGATORY). Hope you’re hanging in there. I live in a fiery hellscape but am technically fine. I cannot express to you the depth and breadth of devastation we’re experiencing here in Los Angeles. Altadena — which is very close to me — and the Palisades and Malibu look like they were bombed. I know multiple people who’ve lost their homes and everything in them. Friends who haven’t lost homes can’t go back for months. It’s a real shitshow. The Los Angeles Times rounded up places to help; I can only assume this list will grow over time. (I gave to the local humane society!) If you have other suggestions, please link in the comments. You will get caught in moderation because the system always makes me manually approve a link. I’ll get you out eventually.
Hope you and yours are safe. Cue the MASSIVE TONAL SHIFT KLAXON.
Over at Drinks With Broads: We live chatted during the Globes! It was great fun — we love talking with fellow Fug Nationals about the red carpet and the show itself; please get yourself a paid subscription if you’d like to join! (Slash support our work.) We covered the bests and worsts of said Globes! Heather had a hot take on Wicked and I had a cold one on Napoleon!
Here, we’ve also chatted about the perfect packed lunch, and great non-alc drinks.
At Town & Country: Jimmy Carter Was a Citizen of the World
Perfect, at Socialite Life: “We thought it would be fun to deconstruct some of the Daily Mail headlines and rewrite them without sensationalism or celebrity angle.”
As someone who loves her china, I also loved this story: This 100-Year Set of Fine China Has Passed Through 5 Generations of Women. [NYT, gifted link]
The NYT asks, “Are These Shoes Hideous or Genius?” [gifted link]
Really good: They kept spamming my email… So I joined their chat. [Petty Revenge subreddit]
Service journalism: The 14 Best Meal Delivery Services 2025, Tested by Bon Appétit Editors
Also important, at Eater: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Girl Scout Cookies.
This headline is amazing, at Texas Monthly: Destroying Paper Is a Sweet Gig, Until Someone Tosses a Gun Into Your Shredder.
Neato: Curiosity du Jour: Microscopic Photo Jewellery [Messy Nessy Chic]
A great issue of Whatever, Nevermind: Vintage Band T-Shirts on TV + Nicole Kidman’s ‘Babygirl’ Wardrobe
The Cut asks: Is the Walmart Birkin Better Than the Real Thing?
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