Happy Friday! I cannot believe we’re heading toward the end of October already. Hope things are going well for you and yours.

We had a good time at Drinks With Broads this week! First, we dive into one of my old cookbooks that just might have a menu for a key party….brunch??? Plus Mariah is re-releasing “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and Billie Eilish looks great on Vogue! Yesterday, we talked about the new Doritos restaurant!!! Also complain about Grey’s Anatomy and discuss Nobody Wants This. AND there’s a fresh new recap of Only Murders in the Building.

And here at GFY, I picked out a bunch of SEASONAL GOURDS you might want to buy, and we all talked about our favorite autumn recipes.

The news about Liam Payne is terribly sad. This was a lovely remembrance of him at Rolling Stone.

An interesting look at how the sausage gets made, at Lainey’s newsletter, the Squawk: A Taylor Swift Horse (Non) Story

Honestly, good for Kylie Jenner. Let this woman be private if she wants!!!! [Lainey]

I chuckled at this headline: Criminy! King Conker Charged With Cheeky Cheating At Conkers Contest. [Defector]

So interesting: How Movie Menus Are Made: An Interview With Alamo Drafthouse Chef Brad Sorenson. [Film Flavor with Via Marsh]

Speaking of interesting logistics: The School for First Ladies Is Now in Session [NYT, gifted link]

Oh, no. I love this coat. [J.Crew, affiliate link]

Related: Do we need velvet sailor pants for fall? [J.Crew, affiliate link]

Very pertinent to my interests, and very juicy: What It’s Like to Work on a Megayacht. [The Cut]

Town & Country has an interesting excerpt from the new book Dorothy Parker in Hollywood.

Important work at Vulture: The Best and Worst Returning Housewives

I always enjoy it when Texas Monthly resurfaces something from the archives, like this piece from 2001: “Looking to have somebody murdered? You might want to call Gary Johnson, the number one hired killer in Houston. Then again, you might not—he works for the cops.” (Skip Hollandsworth is such a good writer.) (This is also the article that the Glen Powell movie Hit Man was based on.)

At Jezebel: Happy 35th Anniversary to ‘Teen Witch,’ a Film That Critics Dared to Call ‘Plebeian.’ Top that!

Quotidian Vignettes reports: Does ‘Emily in Rome’ get Rome right?

This made me laugh: A word from The Parent Trap’s divorce attorney [Teniade Topics]

I clicked on this headline so quickly: “Works by Pissarro, Renoir, and Avercamp Vanished. Here’s How an Amateur Art Sleuth Cracked the Case.” I love art crime stories! [Vanity Fair]

Finally, great news! Remember how we’ve been raising money with The States Project to help support Democratic state legislature races? Thanks to your incredible generosity — and some matching funds from TSP itself! — we crushed our $20,000 goal. THANK YOU for chipping in to help elect folks down the ballot! The last day to donate to this project is October 29, if you’re someone who wants to/is able to spend her election anxiety, but no matter what, we appreciate you.

romPhoto by New York Times Co./Getty Images

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