Paul Rudnick, the humorist and screenwriter who often uses a femme de plume, has written his living will (a must for us all in these complicated times), and it’s wound up printed in The New Yorker‘s “Shouts & Murmurs,” of course. (via Towleroad)

9. If my death is particularly dramatic, I would like to be played by Hilary Swank, for a slam dunk.

10. If there is any family dispute over my medical condition, it must be settled with a dreidel.

11. Even if I remain in a persistent vegetative state for more than fifteen years, that still doesn’t mean bangs.