Fugs & Pieces, April 5th, 2024

Glad weekend, everybody! I hope yours is a really nice one.

We had some nice chats this week. Yesterday, we talked about what our walk-up songs would be if we were MLB players. (I’m actually pleased with mine.) We additionally crowd-sourced stuff we’re out there for, which is always fun and useful. And we talked signature drinks!

Over at Drinks With Broads, all subscribers got my exploration of one of my vintage cookbooks, 500 Snacks, and the insane things it wants you to do to bananas, plus a LUXURY WITCH has entered the chat. Paid subscribers — once more, thanks a lot to these of you who’ve joined this stage! — obtained a newsletter about all the things Instagram is selling us (including some INSANE shortalls) plus a look at those awful new Anne Hathaway Versace ads. And another stuff. Come on by, it’s enjoyable!

Actually attention-grabbing: The Michelin Guide’s Problem with Women. [The New Paris Dispatch]

Per Smithsonian: NASA Will Create a New Time Zone for the Moon, Called Coordinated Lunar Time. 

You recognize I really like artwork heists!! At USA Right this moment: Fake masterpieces fooled collectors. The FBI caught on after a decade.

Oh God: Brace yourself for the Joker 2 discourse. Thank God I’m principally off Twitter solely. [Lainey]

Our buddy Kim France has added an advice column to her great Girls of a Certain Age!

I agree with this: Hot Take: Kristen Stewart Is An Amazing Comedic Actress [Pajiba]

Wild: “Vice was as soon as promised to change into the brash younger voice of stories. But wild expenses, shady deals, and greed turned it into ‘a fucking clown show.’” [The Verge]

IMPORTANT: Keanu cut his hair. (For a role) (He appears good with all hairs!) [Lainey]

Nice, at CNN: Black rodeo culture has been overlooked. This photographer wants to change that.

Self-importance Honest experiences: Patricia Highsmith Was Almost as Twisted as Tom Ripley

On the Lower: The Biggest Revelations from Rebel Wilson’s Memoir

A really good interview with Kirsten Dunst at Variety.

At Punch: “The country’s top brewers, beer writers and buyers weigh in on the 10 breweries to know right now.”

Talking of stuff I get pleasure from ingesting, that is HIGHLY RELEVANT TO ME, at Bon Appetit: Who Makes the Best Cold Brew? I’ve purchased (and re-purchased) A LOT of those.

At The Ringer: “It’s exhausting to imagine there was a time when there wasn’t a girls’s match at WrestleMania. Here is an abridged look at the evolution of women’s wrestling at the Showcase of the Immortals.”

 (Photograph by Concentrate on Sport by way of Getty Photos)