December 31, 2023

🎉A Most Unreliable Narrator Issue #167 2023’s Wonderful Things🌟

I like wonderful things and lists and I cannot lie

Welcome to A Most Unreliable Narrator, the slice-of-life newsletter of GenXer around town, Lisa Rabey. I talk about anything and everything with a bit of swears. I’m glad you’re here.

Dear Internet,

Over at NPR, Linda Holmes, who writes and hosts NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour, put together a list of 50 wonderful things for 2023. Since I conclude every AMUN newsletter with a wonderful thing, I decided the last AMUN issue for 2023 should be my own list of wonderful things!  

In no particular order, here are the things I found to be wonderful in 2023:

(links to AMUN issue, not the product)

• Indie bookstores

• The book Spare by Prince Harry

• The artist Caravaggio

• The artist Artemisia Gentileschi

• Donating and selling books

• eBay

• Great British Bake Off (Netflix)

• Legend of Zelda franchise

• The non-profit Punk Saves Lives

• Apple products

• Tea

• The song “The Freshman” by Verve Pipe

• New York Times games

• Triscuits, salami, cheese, and Fudge Stripe cookies

• PBS Passport

• eBay (again)

• Treats in freezers

• The show Justified (Hulu)

• Immediate emergency care

• Sugar Free Jell-o

• Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Hulu)

• M & S linen collection

• Send to Kindle

• Combination washer/dryer

• #lisamas (my birthday)

• Kirkland Cheese, Fruit, & Nut packs

• Tarot cards

• ProWritingAid, Scrivener, and Day One

• 51 Stories in 51 Weeks

• Airplanes

• The Perfumed Court

• Music playlists

• Bariatric Meal Prep

• Dirtbag Through the Ages newsletter

• Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs

• Trader Joe’s Candy Cane Joe-Joe’s

• Gravol

Happy New Year!

lisa x

(Fuck fascists and Nazis!)

You've just finished reading A Most Unreliable Narrator: the slice of life newsletter from the GenXer about town, Lisa Rabey. You can find me on Instagram, Facebook and Bluesky if you're so inclined. I am everywhere. Copyright © 1996 - 2025 by Lisa Rabey