Happy New Year! Naturally, I assume everyone’s New Year’s resolution is to pay more attention to me, so here is a bonus edition of this newsletter! Read on to start your new year with more me!
I’m going to start by sharing my resolutions.
I know what some of you are thinking: “Victoria, we know what your resolutions are: become famous, get your own television show, get your photo on the wall on the seventh floor of Bergdorf’s.” Okay, so if this is all so self-evident, why has none of it happened? Others of you are probably thinking: “Victoria, you don’t seem like the resolutions type.” Well, I bet you wouldn’t say that if you knew how many people I signed up for this newsletter without their consent!
Victoria’s 2025 Resolutions
* Learn to tap dance * Deepen relationship with Accountant * Spend more time aboard the ferry * Encourage more gossip about myself * Make progress on my feuds * Star in a Broadway musical * Locate all streets in the country called “Broadway” and research what permits they require * Find something to do with all the stamps I have accumulated due to postal store error * Cultivate element of surprise * Try to get the cat to diversify her diet * Start scrapbook * Learn to play tambourine * Bigger hair (vertical) * Threaten to stab people with forks * Do more freelance detective work * Cultivate mid-Atlantic accent * More scheming
Reader Participation!
I have a very exciting announcement for all of you, my fans and people I signed up for this newsletter without your consent. In an upcoming edition of this newsletter, I will be answering reader questions. Yes, like media-titans of yore, I will be doing a mailbag edition. This is a great opportunity to find out all sorts of interesting things about me and my thoughts on things or to ask for my advice. So if you have a question for me, just reply to this newsletter with your question and stay tuned for my mailbag edition.
Yes, this is real.
A Gift!
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From the Archive!
Beat the post-holidays malaise by revisiting this A Legend is Hatched classic.
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A film to rival Cleopatra—in chaos. The best picture that could have been made, if not for irreconcilable differences and the insistence on legal accounting practices.
Happy 2025!
Victoria
