Ella Risbridger

And obviously it's not snowing, but in my heart, it's snowing.

And so those are the reasons that I feel 10 times more charismatic and 10 times more ready to take on Friends the TV series.

Friends, brackets, you and me, our long friendship.

Christmas of Friends.

Christmas in real life.

And I guess whatever else comes up, because of course, this is the last sentimental garbage for a long, long time.

I think it's kind of lovely that you've made this last series of like, let me talk to all my friends about Friends, this TV show that everybody knows and loves.

It feels like the perfect pause.

I think it's really interesting.

It's something that I thought a lot about when I was writing In Love With Love, my most recent book, which is a history of romantic fiction that you can probably still buy as a very late Christmas present.

There's probably somewhere doing next day delivery and you should, it's great.

But about how fiction kind of allows us to practice how we feel about the world and it gives us a framework to think about how we think about things.

And I was writing specifically about romantic fiction, but I do think that all art is supposed to be a way to...

re-imagine and re-establish your own relationship with your own life and i think that's what friends is for you know there's something about its ubiquity in the culture that makes it like a touchstone that you can come back to over and over again to be like it's like that but in friends it's like it really is helping me to think of you having us christmas in tulsa

And that's ridiculous.

It's really helping me.

It really is.

I guess because this is the first Christmas where we've not spent substantial Christmas time together, like making little ornaments of Sylph with her head in a cone or just like doing a little craft project or watching the Muppets.

And it's like, oh no, sometimes Chandler got to go to Tulsa.

And of course Chandler comes back from Tulsa because Selma Blair makes a pass at him in a very sexy way that, you know, it shows real restraint that Chandler, a dork, does not plunge straight into an affair with Selma Blair.