Fugs & Pieces, October 6th, 2023

Good day, all! I hope you will have a implausible weekend! In case you’re trying to get your home prepared for Halloween, I had a blast rounding up fun Halloween-y items for yourself and your abode. We additionally chatted about what we’re looking forward to most for fall!

It was a busy week over at Drinks With Broads, the place everybody received our take on The Golden Bachelor, the Jodie Turner-Smith/Pacey divorce, and the summer bestsellers of the 1990s, and paid subscribers additionally received to debate Beckham, Anya Taylor-Joy’s dreamy Italian wedding, the Blossom reboot, and on-going figure-skating shenanigans. Thanks a lot to everybody who has subscribed; we’re having the perfect time writing the e-newsletter (and, frankly, given the depressed advert marketplace for on-line publications, the revenue from the paid subscribers has most likely insured this upcoming yr of GFY, so an additional thanks!!).

I’m an enormous fan of Amy Odell’s Substack Again Row, and its sequence Retail Confessions. This week brought us an employee at a Dallas-area Louis Vuitton.

Lainey’s Mail Bag function in today’s edition of her great Substack, The Squawk, is so juicy and interesting.

I’m strongly contemplating this sweater dress, at Quince. [affiliate link]

Good for him. Per Socialite Life: Idris Elba sees a therapist to work on work-life balance. Work-life steadiness is tough!

This video of Ginger Spice ‘breaking down her most iconic looks” is fun, at Vogue.

Tyler McCall’s Substack, Most Talkative, had an important subject as we speak: Plus-Size Representation This Fashion Month Was Pretty Good. It’s Still Not Enough.

Fascinating, at T&C: How an Art Advisor to the Elite Allegedly Conned Her Client Friends. You understand I really like artwork cons!

I used to be in Hawaii final week — thanks VERY a lot  to Heather for holding down the fort!! — and I did not suppose somebody would get arrested for Tupac’s homicide whereas I used to be gone, the identical day Senator Feinstein died. That was a curler coaster journey of reports alerts to get up to! The NYT has a fairly good assortment of items protecting the Tupac developments; this was the first one I read. [gifted link]

Additionally piece from Lainey on the current state of events between Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, and the NFL. I’ve so many advanced emotions about this gossip state of affairs however I additionally type of need them to run off and get married???

So fascinating, at VF: “Sold Out? Gab Waller Can Help: The worldwide fashion-sourcing mastermind has earned a popularity for locating her shoppers, like Sofia Richie Grainge, Hailey Bieber, Khloé Kardashian, Jen Atkin, and Lori Harvey, any vogue piece they need—no matter how uncommon or in demand.”

This complete factor was a mess, and I don’t blame these writers for making this name: Drew Barrymore’s WGA writers decide not to return to her show. Drew actually stepped on this one. [Celebitchy]

This will probably be enjoyable to argue about: The Best Hot Sauces According to Cooks, Recipe Developers, and the Strategist Staff. [Grub Street]

And I’ll REALLY battle about this one: Which Boxed Mac and Cheese Is Best? (My feeling is that boxed mac and cheese is a selected foodstuff VERY DISTINCT from precise do-it-yourself macaroni and cheese and it’s made by Kraft, THE END. Very like how Taco Bell is not Mexican meals, it’s TACO BELL. It’s its personal factor!) [Bon Appetit]

That is cool: Broken Zipper? France Will Pay to Get It Fixed. [Reasons to Be Cheerful]

Fascinating: Inside the NFL’s careful, complicated embrace of sports gambling. [WaPo, gifted link]

The Ringer wonders, Why Did So Many of Baseball’s Biggest Spenders Flop This Season?

Texas Month-to-month experiences: Frank Lloyd Wright Built Just One Freestanding Theater in His Lifetime. Dallas Has Let It Fall Into Disrepair.

I had been questioning this. At USA At the moment: “Study shows Powerball online buying is rising. See why else the jackpot has grown so high.” We can not purchase tickets on-line in California, however I wish to go chat with the man on the comfort retailer anyway.

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