Plus: Succession, David Attenborough, Gillian Anderson, a lemon tart, and so much Olympics
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It's one of the two times a year this newsletter pretends to be jocks!

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We can't stop talking about...
Mon dieu!
Jeux Olympiques  
Mon dieu!
The Paris blowout began with Lady Gaga, drag queens, blaring EDM, a weird Phantom of the Opera reference, naked performers, and torrential rain. It was a perfectly unhinged microcosm of contemporary France.
Tableau lewd  
And it wouldn't be French without a little drama – including from Christians who (mistakenly) thought one of the Opening Ceremony's tableaus was a Last Supper parody.
Athletic pseud  
We haven't even got to the actual sport? Which turns us all into animals despite our total lack of knowledge or even outside interest?
Gnarly dude  
Case in point: the amount of hours I have spent watching skateboarders. He's probably not texting back because he's at the Olympics...
Eat this
Party tarty
Party tarty
If you have tried the goods from Melbourne's Tarts Anon you will live your life forever trying to recreate them – and, luckily, they've shared a recipe and some essential tips.
Extremely online
Extremely online
So hot right now: motels, hating your job, the Apple dance. So harrowing right now: dating, grocery shopping, and full volume TikToks on the train. We’re all getting our news from PopCrave and labelling things as microtrends. We are living in a normal world.

Good reads: The Paris Review on getting dressed and vacationing with CostCo; two Succession favourites reunited; and Gillian Anderson got raunchy. Bad reads: unfortunately, the Wall Street Journal wrote about rizz.
The funniest things on the internet
Eliza Klatt's tour of her tabs
Eliza Klatt's tour of her tabs
The frontwoman of indie rock trio Eliza & The Delusionals is single-handedly bringing Creed back.
Top of the list
A list – of shows  
And films! All streaming in Australia in August – including new David Attenborough, classic Cher, and the latest seasons of The Rings of the Power and Only Murders in the Building.
And films! All streaming in Australia in August – including new David Attenborough, classic Cher, and the latest seasons of The Rings of the Power and Only Murders in the Building.
Another list – good prose  
It's a bumper reading month for kids, with new Andy Griffiths and Guardian cartoonist Fiona Katsukas. But there's also an incendiary art world satire, a Big Oil exposé, and a cult cookbook – something for everyone!
It's a bumper reading month for kids, with new Andy Griffiths and Guardian cartoonist Fiona Katsukas. But there's also an incendiary art world satire, a Big Oil exposé, and a cult cookbook – something for everyone!
A film – slow blows  
In a Violent Nature is a low-budget slasher like no other: a masked killer in bucolic wilderness, shot languorously, few jump scares. But the gore. There is so much gore. In cinemas.
In a Violent Nature is a low-budget slasher like no other: a masked killer in bucolic wilderness, shot languorously, few jump scares. But the gore. There is so much gore. In cinemas.
This week's weirdest story
Go go gadget
Go go gadget
Motorised luggage is increasingly popular in Asia – but in Japan, it requires a driver's licence to ride.
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