Welcome to the latest edition of “On a Toot!,” a feature in which I try to remember some of the liquid highlights of the week, and other highlights in general. “On a Toot!” will only run on Fridays and will only be available to paid subscribers. We hope you enjoy it. “The bar is packed all day long with New York debutantes, brokers, Newport dowagers, bad women who walk good dogs on Park Avenue, chic divorcees and college boys on toots.

Q. Regarding your most recent  letter and answer on likable characters… funny that I've been thinking a bit about likability recently. Not about the characters but a story itself. I have one story I've written where this comes to mind. I'm actually proud of the story but ... well, the ending is definite in a way I don't usually write. It's also, for lack of a better word, kind of uplifting.

If you've been reading Hmm for a while, you'll know that late last year I wrote about Vogue's piece on Lauren Sánchez and her fiancé, Jeff Bezos, which had the kind of photos and quotes a person can only dream or trip about. These two have, obviously, not gone anywhere, although their joint publicist seems to have taken a well-deserved rest after placing the Vogue piece. So when I saw the photos of the couple as guests at a White House's state dinner honoring Japan earlier this week, I had to take a quick little moment to myself.

“I just finished the Yascha podcast,” Noam Dworman texted two days ago, regarding the episode where Sarah Hepola and I discussed the rape allegations against Atlantic contributor Yascha Mounk by writer Celeste Marcus (“The Curious #MeToo Case of Yascha Mounk.”) Noam was particularly incensed by the response from Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, which was to publicly separate from Mounk, against whom Marcus had never filed charges, choosing instead, it seemed, to make Goldberg judge and executioner.

Song of the week: Jay-Z - Big Pimpin’ If we’re gonna talk about Hype Williams this week, then we might as well run this one back. It’s one of the best videos he’s done, and I revisit it/this song every so often, because, why not? “It’s just that Jigga man, Pimp-C, and B U N B” Hype Williams is one of the most prolific music video directors ever. His work effectively transformed the way that we think of content and creativity forever.