> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Fugs & Pieces, December 16th, 2016 - URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fugs-pieces-december-16th-2016-12-2016/ - Published: 2016-12-16T22:00:42.000Z - Updated: 2016-12-17T01:00:41.000Z - Description: Lost cities! Cuba, in clothes! Astrologers! TONYA HARDING! - Author: Jessica - Tags: Fugs and Pieces, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 07:49 Happy Friday, everyone! Hope your holiday shopping is going well. Mine...let's just say I need to take stock today and see what's actually happening. (It felt like a miracle that I even got my Christmas tree up.) **Housekeeping note: If you are one of the people who tried to register for a commenting account here and your email never appeared and you got stuck in a weird and annoying limbo, try logging in now. It might work. Cross your fingers.** \-- Ta-Nehisi Coates has a piece in *The Atlantic* this week that is incredibly well-worth your time: [My President Was Black.](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/my-president-was-black/508793/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) \-- At Racked, this is fascinating: [Cuba, in Clothes](https://www.racked.com/2016/12/13/13904358/cuba-shopping-clothes?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) \-- Refinery29 wonders: [Is 2016 The End Of The It Girl?](https://www.refinery29.com/2016/12/132153/it-girls-social-influencers-celebrity-relevance?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) \-- Did you know [there's a 1000-year-old lost city under the St Louis suburbs? ](https://arstechnica.com/features/2016/12/theres-a-1000-year-old-lost-city-beneath-the-st-louis-suburbs/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)Me either. \[Ars Technica\] \-- I'd like to introduce you to two American heroes: [Two Sex Shop Employees Ward Off Alleged Robber With Dildos](https://laist.com/2016/12/16/dildo%5Favengers.php?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). These women are the best. To wit: "The alleged robber got more than he bargained for when one employee—identified by ABC 7 only as Amy—decided she didn’t have time for his shenanigans. 'I just thought he was trying to be funny, to scare us. But then I saw the gun and it was like, really? I don't have time for this,' she said. Amy suspected that the gun he was carrying was a fake, and was not scared. She instead described herself as 'really irritated.'" Amy does not have time for your shit, you guys. \[LAist\] \-- At Fashionista: [Diversity on Magazine Covers Widely Improved in 2016.](https://fashionista.com/2016/12/fashion-diversity-magazine-covers-2016?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) (Although there's a lot of way to go.) \-- Oh my god:[ Sebastian Stan to play the Jeff Gillooly to Margot Robbie’s Tonya Harding. ](https://www.avclub.com/article/sebastian-stan-play-jeff-gillooly-margot-robbies-t-247440?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)I AM THERE. \[The AV Club\] \-- At The Washington Post, from one of my writerly heroes, Robin Givhan: [The fashion industry really wants you to wear pajamas on the street. Don’t do it!](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/12/11/the-fashion-industry-really-wants-you-to-wear-pajamas-on-the-street-dont-do-it/?utm%5Fterm=.014d03190dc2&ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) \-- [This GQ profile of Sebastian Bach will warm your heart a little](https://www.gq.com/story/sebastian-bach-skid-row-profile?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), I suspect. \-- Relevant to our interests, at Blastr: [Ranking the sweet space capes of Star Wars ](https://www.blastr.com/2016-12-16/ranking-sweet-space-capes-star-wars?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) \-- Lainey is [pretty sure that Diane Kruger and Norman Reedus are still together](https://www.laineygossip.com/Diane-Kruger-at-Norman-Reeduss-book-exhibition-in-Paris/45767?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). \-- Also at Lainey: Yeah, that *Hollywood Reporter* animation roundtable -- where a bunch of white dudes talk about diversity and less stereotypical female characters (!!!!!!) -- [was a total shitshow.](https://www.laineygossip.com/THR-Animators-Roundtable-is-full-of-white-men-talking-about-princess-culture-and-representing-minorities/45751?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) \-- Craig Sager -- the wonderful sports reporter with a penchant for snazzy blazers -- died yesterday. E[SPN has a lovely remembrance of him](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/%5F/id/18286883/craig-sager-was-reporter-first-sideline-superstar-second?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io); Steve Kerr led [a really moving "moment of joy" for him before yesterday's Warriors/Knicks game.](https://screengrabber.deadspin.com/steve-kerr-leads-warriors-fans-in-moment-of-joy-sager-1790172753?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) \-- [Pajiba runs down their ten favorite lines from 2016 TV.](https://www.pajiba.com/seriously%5Frandom%5Flists/the-best-lines-from-tv-in-2016.php?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) \-- An interesting read from Anne Helen Peterson at Buzzfeed: [The Key To Trump Is Reading Him Like A Celebrity](https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/what-would-trump-be-without-twitter?utm%5Fterm=.yxRB83NV4&ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io#.gqrVvjYoZ) \-- *W* [profiles my new favorite Twitter astrologers.](https://www.wmagazine.com/story/twitters-favorite-new-astrologers-are-here-to-guide-you-through-dark-times-ahead?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) \-- Slate runs down [the many many many many classic movie references in *La La Land.*](https://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/12/13/la%5Fla%5Fland%5Fs%5Fmany%5Freferences%5Fto%5Fclassic%5Fmovies%5Ffrom%5Fsingin%5Fin%5Fthe%5Frain%5Fto.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) \-- Celebitchy reports that[ K Stew has a new girlfriend.](https://www.celebitchy.com/516284/kristen%5Fstewart%5Freportedly%5Fdone%5Fwith%5Fst%5Fvincent%5Fnow%5Fdating%5Fstella%5Fmaxwell/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) And in case you missed it here at GFY, we launched a new layout for longer form pieces,[ and of course the inaugural one is about *Top Model.*](https://www.gofugyourself.com/featured/memory-lane-antm-is-dead-long-live-the-new-antm?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) We also concluded [our recaps of *Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life*](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/recap-gilmore-girls-a-year-in-the-life-fall-12-2016/) And, in case you missed it last week, [OUR GIFT GUIDE!](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/the-2016-gfy-gift-guide-12-2016/)