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Twinks v cops
I am hosting a rat from Flushed Away lookalike competition! Please come to my house if you look like the rat from Flushed Away.

– Michael Sun
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Celebrations  
Halloween and other catastrophes
This American couple turned their humble abode into a house of horrors. It ended with waterboarding and burst blood vessels.
Wedding songs  
Who's your favourite wedding singer's favourite wedding singer? Find out within.
Christmas sneak  
Vindication for grinches everywhere: we've crunched the numbers and yuletide festivities are starting earlier and earlier each year.
Birthday suit  
Photographer Spencer Tunick has been getting thousands naked for decades. Here's how his Brisbane shoot went down.
Cook this
Eggs and bacon
Eggs and bacon
Most things are probably better with bacon fat – including this gloriously lardy scramble.
Extremely online
Extremely online
Was anyone NOT at the Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest? GQ, Vogue, Teen Vogue, The Cut, Vulture and Slate all published scene reports from the event of the century which took place in Washington Square Park, featured an appearance from the real Timothée (who did not win), and eventually descended into a twinks v cops extravaganza that saw at least one Timothée Chalamet lookalike arrested. 

For a second it felt like old Twitter again – as did the meltdown over Pitchfork’s review of the new Halsey album; the meltdown over Brandon Taylor’s review of the not-so-new Sally Rooney; and this nice interview with everyone’s favourite account. 

Jeremy O Harris went to Sunset Boulevard and Ethan Slater got a cover story. A fun week, all things considered – though not for Hollywood execs or recommendations influencers. At least we’ll always have Gary Indiana, Agnes Varda, and the New York Public Library.
The funniest things on the internet
Ruby Teys's tour of her tabs
Ruby Teys's tour of her tabs
She tried to go 'cool girl' but found lots of British YouTube instead.
Top of the list
An album – body double  
Shaad D'Souza went to interview anonymous UK dance pranksters Two Shell about their self-titled album – and true to form, they sent a pair of gabbing decoys instead.
Shaad D'Souza went to interview anonymous UK dance pranksters Two Shell about their self-titled album – and true to form, they sent a pair of gabbing decoys instead.
Another album – here comes trouble  
Also in pranksters: rap's enfant terrible Tyler, the Creator has dropped Chromakopia, after publicly promising no new music this year. It's an album-length freak-out both enthralling and exhausting.
Also in pranksters: rap's enfant terrible Tyler, the Creator has dropped Chromakopia, after publicly promising no new music this year. It's an album-length freak-out both enthralling and exhausting.
A film – creepy couple  
Ever since The Polar Express, Robert Zemeckis has been committed to making some of Hollywood's uncanniest entries – and his latest, starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, is no exception. Our critic hated it! Here is in cinemas.
Ever since The Polar Express, Robert Zemeckis has been committed to making some of Hollywood's uncanniest entries – and his latest, starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, is no exception. Our critic hated it! Here is in cinemas.
A genre – sex bubble  
Everyone from Gillian Anderson to dating app Feeld is championing erotic literature. Are we entering a new wave of smut?
Everyone from Gillian Anderson to dating app Feeld is championing erotic literature. Are we entering a new wave of smut?
This week's weirdest story
Hot as ice
Hot as ice
Netflix is releasing a movie about a snowman who comes to life. Also, he has a six-pack.
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