Woman. Legend. Blog.

1. 10 best new podcasts of the year.  The Alec Baldwin one is really good. I heard the one he did with Chris Rock and Fred Armisen. 
2. “An amusing map from 1927, showing which areas of California could be used to film movies that you wanted to look like other parts of the world.”
3. “Reader, I married her.“
4. Top 10 most angsty characters in Fiction.
5. Two good things on Tablet this week: one on Russian adoptions, the other on the Israeli-built Parliament building in Sierra Leone
6. Jerry Seinfeld’s creation process
7. “How I discovered the secret to happiness“
8. Hogmanay in Edinburgh
9. Restoring a dresser
10. I can’t wait for summer
11. The lost art of the walk, on the street where we stayed in New Orleans
12. My favorite longform thing I read last year: P.J. O’Rourke in Afghanistan

Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted citizenship to French actor Gérard Depardieu, who has been embroiled in a bitter fight over taxes with France’s government, the Kremlin said Thursday.

A statement posted on the government website said that Mr. Putin had signed a decree in response to “an application for citizenship of the Russian Federation” on behalf of “Depardieu Gérard Xavier, who was born in France in 1948.”

 

 

Bubele Please is an instruction manual for a discerning audience who doesn’t mind gratuitous bad language.

I used to feel like we were the only people we knew celebrating Hanukah, especially in Scotland.   Not anymore.

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