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At Oldster earlier this week I published “A Word to the Unwise: Confessions of a Grieving Fool,” a humorous and moving essay in which Shalom Auslander —struggling to accept a close contemporary’s death and the ravages of time — pokes a little fun at me and my magazine, and at some of the more upbeat respondents to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire. If you read the piece (co-published in Oldster and Shalom’s Fetal Position newsletter, on the latter of which, “Oldster Magazine” shares the byline ) it should be pretty obvious that I’m in on the joke, and that, more than anything, Shalom is poking fun at himself for his constitutional inability to adopt a brighter outlook about getting older (or anything).

I’m currently working on my best K-dramas of the year list that I write annually for Teen Vogue. I’m also finishing up the sageuk “My Dearest, ” which I’m enjoying … which got me thinking about some of my favorite historical dramas, like “Mr. Sunshine.” And one of my all-time favorite sageuks is “Moon Embracing the Sun” — which for me had the perfect balance of history, love, comedy and tragedy.

The launch issue of Glamour UK. Cringeing at some of these cover lines now. It was a different time! Many of you have contacted me to request some behind the scenes stories about my days in magazines, my interactions with celebrities, or this infamous moment from the Glamour Women of the Year Awards. So I’ve decided to tell you  - the real ones, the wonderful subscribers, thank you - the celebrity cover story that still makes me break out into a cold sweat when I think about it.

This is necessarily subjective. But I really have not enjoyed this NFL season, which sucks, because I look forward to it all year. NFL football is the only sport I really follow anymore. I used to follow the NBA and baseball fairly closely, watching a couple dozen games of each a year and tracking the divisional standings. I can’t remember the last time I watched a baseball game (for reasons) and while I’ll enjoy an NBA game if I catch one, I couldn’t tell you who’s good and bad right now.

Project 2025: Art is PornOklahoma Christian Nationalist Republican state congressman Dusty Deevers has given us an (in)decent list. His “pornography” ban, Oklahoma Senate Bill 1976, defines the following as “obscene”: “Sexual conduct” means and includes any of the following: a. acts of sexual intercourse including any intercourse which is normal or perverted, actual or simulated, b. acts of deviate sexual conduct, including oral and anal sodomy, c. acts of masturbation,

This winter, my parents sold our childhood home. It was a creaky old house (like, 19th century old), the kind that spooked peers in grammar school and fascinated friends in high school. I knew all of its quirks by heart: how to jiggle the handle of the bathroom door just so to avoid getting stuck inside; how to gently, quietly place my feet on each step to avoid waking my parents up after a late night out.

I went through a rather intense Broadcast News phase about two years ago. I can’t remember what prompted it — an anniversary, a Holly Hunter-renaissance, one of those insufferably ice-cold “Broadcast News is a romantic comedy but no one wants to talk about it”-takes onli… ncG1vNJzZmigpaPBpr7HmqmroaNjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6Gho2K8r7GMpaCnnV2bv7C5jJupqJmUmK60wIynnLCr

Major spoilers for the Barbie movie below. There are some common denominators to the line readings I think about a lot: there are lines that are guffaw-inducing levels of nonsense (“You shouldn’t be upset that I fucked her, you should be upset that I had a laugh with her!”). There are lines that I keep turning over in my head, trying to make sense of (“Karma takes all my friends to the summit,” which I haven’t written about yet … Summit like a shareholders meeting?

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