Happy Friday! Hope you have a fun weekend planned. I’m going to a football game, and also running around like a chicken with my head cut off getting ready for Thanksgiving.
On Drinks With Broads this week — I accidentally wrote, “Drinks With Brads,” a different publication — we covered the eye rolling latest Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue, All’s Fair vs. All Her Fault, and the best selling books of the 1980s Thanksgiving holiday. In Tuesday’s (free!) issue, I finally cracked open my 1981 Sears Christmas catalog and found it full of delights and also crazy shit, and we tackled the new Met Gala theme.
Here at GFY, we discussed our favorite luggage, and I wrote one of my favorite posts of the year rounding up a bunch of cute, silly ornaments. We also had a great chat where folks recommended organizations in their area that are helping to fight food insecurity right now, so please check that one out and add to the conversation if you can. (That chat also expanded to other philanthropic organizations that could use a boost this holiday season — this is how I found out that some of my neighbors are running a drive to collect ornaments for folks who lost theirs in the Eaton Canyon fire, just up the street from me. I’m going to drop off some ornaments this weekend!)
Bravo to this guy: Meet the Veteran Who Chases ICE on a Scooter
I know at least one of you will really want to read this: Why Are There So Many Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes?
Weirdly, I was just thinking about this yesterday: O.J. Simpson’s estate agrees to pay nearly $58 million to Ron Goldman’s Dad 31 years after murder. GOOD. That poor family. This civil trial has been dragging on for nearly 30 years. (The new issue, of course, is that OJ’s estate allegedly doesn’t have anywhere near that kind of money and they also owe the Feds half a million dollars. They can’t sell his Heisman because they already did that. [And USC has the other one.])
This must have been a shock to show up to: Amid the MAHA Anti-Vaxxers at the Texas Book Festival.
One of my favorite round of up lists every year: The Best Places to Go in 2026. Sure, I will go to Belgium.
Lainey points this out in her interesting piece about Glen Powell, but I literally DID think those photos were of a young Tom Cruise.
People need to GET A GRIP: “‘Mine Is Really Alive.’ In online communities, people who say their AI lovers are “real” are seen as crossing a line. Are they actually so crazy?” Some of them, YES! All of this is going to end very, very badly.
This piece about the Automat is so interesting! (I only know about Automats from reading novels.)
This is all very funny, honestly: Would You Pay $12.1m For This Golden Toilet?
Oh man, this breaks my heart for Greer: Kelsey Grammer’s daughter Greer Grammer details her 12-year estrangement from Frasier star
I enjoyed this piece about Hyun Bin and Son Ye-jin winning best actor and best actress at the Blue Dragon Film Awards, which is like Korea’s Oscars. They’re married!
Yikes: 25 Movies, Many Stars, 0 Hits: Hollywood Falls to New Lows. The film industry is in a real mess.
I am working on a truly huge post rounding-up all the best/most pertinent Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals — it is really a chonker of a piece — and that’s coming your way on Tuesday. But a few retailers are running early, shorter promotions and I wanted to highlight one now: Anthropologie has 30% off almost everything with the code ANTHRO30 until 11/23, which is Sunday. They’re also running a promotion where if you spend $200 now, you get a $50 credit on 12/11. They’re also running 40% off sale items (you don’t need an additional code for that). This is really good, especially if you are going to shop Anthro for the holidays anyway. They have a TON of cute holiday decor, too. Look at this crocheted pizza ornament! Or this little beaded dog ornament! They’ve got a whole collection of gifts for pet lovers. These canvas NFL-branded book totes are really cute if you’re a fan of one of these teams. And these MLB drinks caps are CUTE; the Dodgers one has little martinis on it, the Tampa Bay one has little margaritas, the Phillies have beer, the Yankees have champagne, etc. Really cute. Anyway, Anthro might be worth a poke around the next couple of days. (This is not sponsored by Anthro, although they did email me about this and those are affiliate links! I just got carried away finding cute stuff.)
Also; the beauty brand FRÉ is currently offering 50% off the entire website with our code DWB! That’s a GOOD discount. I like their Night Mask due to my being incredibly dry in my middle age.
INTERESTING: Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication. I keep telling my husband that I want one!
This is TOTALLY NUTS: A bunch of actors are just finding out that they’re going to be in a podcast about God….that was cobbled together by Fox News from audio from a long-ago recorded audiobook of the Bible. I read about this on Reddit, where a dude chimed in that he was one of the original audio engineers for said audiobook and he was never paid, so I guess it follows that the folks who put it together originally might not be doing things wholly by the book — no Bible pun intended. It does make me laugh that Brian Cox is the voice of God. That’s an intimidating God!
So good: Emma Thompson’s Goth-Punk Hair, Makeup, and Wardrobe Transformation for Down Cemetery Road. Have you watched?
Really fun: Confessions on a Dance Floor: An Oral History of LA Nightlife in the Early 2000s.
Heads up that Lands’ End has also already started their big Black Friday promotion. If you still need a coat, their outerwear prices are good. That tartan puffer I shared in our tartan round-up is marked way down.
Somehow I didn’t know Ina Garten is on Substack?!?! This week: Thanksgiving at my house, part 1! Ina, please let me channel you this year! (Thanksgiving gives me big anxiety.)
Fascinating: How Bartenders Are Turning Food Waste Into Great Cocktails
I’m giving this piece…two thumbs up: The 50 Best Siskel & Ebert Reviews
The Ringer wonders whether Adam Sandler is gonna win an Oscar. (That would be fun!)
Ooh, so interesting: Do You Have the Fashion Smarts to Cut It in the Vintage Designer Market?
Finally, this is VERY British and I really enjoyed reading it: The nine best Christmas hampers for an indulgent season in 2025, tried and tested.
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