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Pumpkin obsessives
Michael got to meet his favourite And Just Like That character this week.
 
– Alyx Gorman and Michael Sun
We can't stop talking about...
Should you be using a ‘coffee name’?
Getting it wrong  
Should you be using a ‘coffee name’?
After being called everything from “Leerog” to “Heelicha”, Lee Tran Lam started using her Anglo boyfriend's name for takeout. Then she asked baristas for their take on order alter-egos.
Dressed down  
High profile comics including Dave Chappelle and Louis CK had gigs at human rights abuse capital Riyadh this week.
Let down  
Alien creator Ridley Scott says 60% of movies are "shit". Is he right?
Turned down  
Writer Bob Brody has been rejected multiple times a week for at least 50 years. Here's what he learned.
Cook this
Got milk?
Got milk?
Nicholas Jordan and company had 26 cartons of it in our latest supermarket taste test. While the cream rose to the top, one tasted ‘like rocks’.
Extremely online
Extremely online
Nicole Kidman’s first interview since the divorce! Love is dead for everyone except Bennifer. Just ask this woman. 

Good reads: inside indie rock’s most harrowing breakup and pop’s new main character. Paddington Bear went off the rails and Victoria Beckham went off the shoulder. When in doubt, fiction: a demonic trans horror debut; a swinger saga; a starting point for László Krasznahorkai. Thomas Pynchon, Thomas Pynchon, Thomas Pynchon. 

Good tips: we should all be dressing our age and lying about it. 
Top of the list
A conversation – still yapping  
The Life of a Showgirl is a massive hit – and massively divisive. What should Taylor Swift do next?
The Life of a Showgirl is a massive hit – and massively divisive. What should Taylor Swift do next?
A book – prose strapping  
Bri Lee's Seed and Trent Dalton's Gravity Let Me Go are more alike than anyone expected. Only one is good.
Bri Lee's Seed and Trent Dalton's Gravity Let Me Go are more alike than anyone expected. Only one is good.
A show – worth clapping  
Stephen Fry! Alan Carr! Tom Daley! Paloma Faith! Five stars for The Celebrity Traitors – airing episodically on 10Play.
Stephen Fry! Alan Carr! Tom Daley! Paloma Faith! Five stars for The Celebrity Traitors – airing episodically on 10Play.
A film – good napping  
Tron: Ares is a threequel to the original 1982 film – and the first instalment since 2010's Tron Legacy. It's a snooze, but it has Gillian Anderson!
Tron: Ares is a threequel to the original 1982 film – and the first instalment since 2010's Tron Legacy. It's a snooze, but it has Gillian Anderson!
The funniest things on the internet
Harvey Sutherland's tour of his tabs
Harvey Sutherland's tour of his tabs
His new album is about the meme economy!
This week's weirdest story
Good gourd
Good gourd
Going deep into the world of pumpkin obsessives, Emma Beddington finds one man who 'carved until my fingers were bleeding'.
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