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As a kid I wanted to dress like an American Girl Doll, specifically Samantha, the bitchy orphan. I don’t know what it was exactly about all that velvet, those ruffles, the pinafores and patent leather Mary Janes and cloaks that spoke so deeply to my soul. Pictures of me in high school reveal the belief that two hair clips, one on each side of my head, had a slimming effect on my face (to be fat!

Hi y’all! Good God, it’s cold in New York right now!! Somehow though, George and I managed to make it out to the Fuccboi book launch, hosted by Forever Mag at TV Eye. The place was packed—even the bouncer was shocked by the turn out. “This is for a book?” He asked the girls in front of us in line. “This is more people than come out for music.”

Hello friends, I’ve spent this week dreaming of sunnier, warmer days laying on a beach somewhere, getting stuck into a good book whilst tucking into an endless supply of mystery, foreign snacks picked up at the local supermarket. It’s very unlike me to not have an upcoming trip in the diary but I’ve had enough of the abysmal weather in London and I’ll be getting something booked asap! To soothe my longing for some time away, I’ve turned to a reliable and comforting ingredient for this weeks recipe.

I posted a clip earlier of Tucker Carlson speaking in Utica, MI, but here is the full speech for anyone who is interested (if you do not wish to get these, please click the top right in your subscriber preferences). I ran the transcript through a transcription service I have and that is below. It’s a little choppy but you get the general idea. The best p… ncG1vNJzZmirkai1or%2FTqKWeZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8Wuo6Vlo6Wypq%2FHZqafZaSqsKyx0WaamqqcqLyvecin

You probably did not expect to find funny stories in the Bible (I didn’t either). If you’re a skeptic reading this, relax because it’s not my job to make you believe. I just want to share these funny stories because why not? Ha, ha, ha! Here we go: In my previous post, it was mentioned there that God could use a donkey to speak. Here’s the origin of that comment.

Furies is a pretty cool new French action & crime series that slays right from the start, and tells the story of two avenging angels with a penchant for violence.  Created by Jean-Yves Arnaud and Yoann Legave, this eight-part series introduces us to Lyna (Lina El Arabi), whose happy life is destroyed - on her birthday, no less - by the violent death of her father and her mother’s severe injuries.

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G. Detou is my happy place in Paris. When I first wrote about it, I said I couldn’t live in Paris if it wasn’t here. And while that’s still true, the shop has evolved since then, offering an even wider array of products than before, and it now offers a more spacious (and more efficient) shopping experience. G. Detou was a jewel that needed to be preserved, but polished. The previous owner, who I featured in my book The Sweet Life in Paris, did an admirable job of keeping the place alive, especially as online shops eclipsed retail shopping and the cookware stores in the area struggled to adapt to a new retail environment.

Freshly awoken from my Tryptophan-induced slumber, I’m back after some time with my family and the Thanksgiving break to dive back into the heaps of emails that’ve built up. Hope you all got to spend some well-earned time with your families or at least away from the daily grind for a bit. The holiday season is almost in full swing, which means that I’m staring down the barrel of a LOT of deadlines before we all take off until January.