Fugs & Pieces: April 19th, 2024

Whats up and joyful weekend! It’s good to assemble with you right here once more. PS: In the event you’ve entered a guide giveaway right here lately, please examine your spam and e-mail! I’m ready to listen to again from some of us.

Over at Drinks With Broads this week, everybody acquired our salute to sci-fi Hate-Watches of yore plus a truly great celeb auction and some other stuff. Paid subscribers acquired Heather’s dispatch from the gift shops of France, and MY dispatch from…jury duty?? Similar!!!

Inquisitive about Fug Nation’s top ten purchases from our shopping posts so far this year? Me too!

SALE KLAXON: J.Crew is doing — as I type this — up to an extra 60% off sale items with the code “SHOPSALE.” That’s lots! Possibly I’ll pull the trigger on this striped button-down now! [Affiliate link]

At Vulture: Diddy’s Open Secrets: The rap mogul shook off decades of rumored bad behavior with wholesome PR revamps.

Fascinating: $17,000 to Watch the Masters? How Sports Entice Deep-Pocketed Fans. [NYT, gifted link]

Additionally fascinating, at Texas Month-to-month: What Is Alex Jones Doing in This Tiny Far West Texas Town? Spoiler: He’s not on a silent retreat giving again to the group. (Additionally, this city sounds fairly wacky?)

I really like RHoBH and Applegate, however this was most likely the correct name: Christina Applegate Reveals Why She Turned Down the Opportunity to Join the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Lainey takes us again down reminiscence lane on the occasion of Suri Cruise’s 18th (!!) birthday.

Cathy Horyn reviews: The Real Reason Taylor Swift Dresses Like That: A close read on a decade of outfits.

I talked about this in DWB this week, and exhausting agree: “Kelly Clarkson might be giving Bethenny Frankel a run for the title of ‘worst divorce in history’ after her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock lately fired again in opposition to a lawsuit she filed final month.” [Lainey]

Cosmo asks, Did Millennials Kill Astrology?

Generally I believe the web was a mistake. At Wired: The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived.

Wow: Huge Disneyland expansion to add new rides, restaurants and hotels wins OK. That is going to create a LOT of jobs in that space, but additionally I sympathize with the oldsters in Anaheim who’re nervous about visitors. [LA Times]

Mercury retrograde is retrograding. We had an impromptu chat about our worst tech nightmares. We additionally chatted about our favorite cookbooks! 

Associated, at Eater: ‘The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook’ Was Ahead of Its Time

Oooh, I’m so into this Le Creuset braiser that looks like a FLOWER. [affiliate link]

Ugh: Review: Look, You Knew ‘Back to Black’ Was Bad, BUT STILL! [Pajiba]

The Ringer dives deep on the 10 Most Memorable Dystopian Movies.

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