Happy Holidays, Fug Nation! Today is our last day of regular programming for 2025 here at Go Fug Yourself — although come back over the next few weeks, because we have a bunch of fun year-end stuff planned. There will definitely be new stuff to read! Thank you so much for continuing to hang out with us this year — we are so glad to still be kicking around the internet. As AI takes over, and so many media outlets have ceased to exist, we’re incredibly grateful that you still choose to swing by this corner of the web. FYI, the Critics Choice Awards have slid into the first awards show slot of the new year — they’re January 4th! — so our first day back to business, Monday, January 6, will really be jam-packed. It should be fun!
Over at Drinks With Broads, Tuesday’s (free!) issue said goodbye to Rob and Michele Reiner (an absolute tragedy that gets more and more upsetting the more we find out), as well as soap icon Tony Geary. Also, Heather reviews Stereophonic, and I catch you up on where we are in Emily in Paris, plus we run down the 2026 awards season sked. On Thursday, paid subscribers (thank you!!) got our take on those million dollar Golden Globes gift bags, the new Jonas Bros Christmas movie, the new Michelle Pfeiffer Christmas movie, and the toy selection of the 1981 Sears Christmas catalog.
Here are GFY, among other things, everyone shared their favorite books of 2025, and we all crowd-sourced gift suggestions for those hard-to-buy-for people on their list.
AMAZING: Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy.
Great news: The 2025 Hater’s Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog has landed.
So good: 6 websites that enable any old house obsession
I do love lists: The 10 Best Recipes of 2025
Absolutely fascinating: A Revelation Tore Apart Her Fairy-Tale Marriage, and Shocked the Nation
This is quite a ride: We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
So fascinating: Feast Your Eyes on Japan’s Fake Food
End of year is my favorite time at Ask a Manager. So many crazy letters and updates!
Really interesting: The strange fate of Flight 2069
This is…extremely surprising and somewhat disturbing: Elvis’ Granddaughter Is Biological Mother of John Travolta’s Son: Lawsuit. YES, Riley Keough. I assume this was a Scientology situation, but for what it’s worth, Priscilla is (kinda?) denying it; I’m not sure that she would necessarily know and I feel like her statement reads more offended that this info was disclosed than anything. I feel bad for Riley, regardless.
If you are still shopping — no judgement — and simply cannot facing going out in person, I just got an email that QVC is offering 20% off your cart (for a maximum of $50) today and tomorrow (12/20) with the code GIVE20 and if you order by noon ET tomorrow, you will allegedly get said package by Christmas. (They have surprisingly good beauty brands, you can get Elemis and Philosophy and L’Occitane, etc.) (I also appreciate that you can watch whatever is airing on QVC there in the corner of your browser, it amuses me to see someone yakking down there and waving around an infinity dress or whatever, I have watched A LOT of QVC in my day.) MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR.
I’m here for this: Steven Spielberg’s Mystery Project ‘Disclosure Day’ Gets a Teaser
Have you heard about Startpage? It’s basically 2006 Google. I’m gonna start using this given that I feel like Google has ruined itself.
Tell me more: Glorious Scottish castles to rent for holidays
What a read: The Eyes Wide Shut Conspiracy: Did Stanley Kubrick warn us about Jeffrey Epstein?
Harper’s Bazaar wonders, Is Everyone’s Hair Fake Now? (If you are famous? Absolutely yes.)
I feel for him: “You Make It Hard to Live”: Jacob Elordi’s Emotional Plea to Paris Paparazzi.
I plan to spend the week between Christmas and New Year’s in pajamas. Do I need ones covered in martinis? (Or wine bottles?) (Or caviar?) Sidebar — did you know The New Yorker sells pajamas? They’re really cute. (The New Yorker has good merch in general.)
Useful: What’s your go-to cleaning hack? Here are a few that changed my life.
Sigh: Intimacy Coordinators, Once a MeToo Win, Now Face Scrutiny and Cuts
This is a very thoughtful piece about Jeanne Mai’s divorce. I didn’t even know she was married! But apparently it’s a messy one.
The Squawk wonders, Will Tate McRae be a Main Pop Girl? I am not the market for Tate McRae, whom I find to be very flat (vocally and general affect-wise), but I also don’t think we’re really doing to have any new Main Pop Girls anymore because the monoculture is dead. (I feel like I’m being such a downer here!)
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