A Letter From Sunday
Friends, relatives, acquaintances: I’ve spent so much time in and around corn this week and last that I have just become a big corn cob. It’s like The Metamorphosis, but it’s me turning into a huge cob that needs to be shucked.
At last, I visited The Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota. Expectations were low, but the beautiful (dare I say, Rose Parade-esque) artwork made completely out of corn pieces really impressed me. It’s a highly decorated auditorium for mainly local basketball games, so I am informed. And yes, the word “palace” seems misplaced. But I liked it, as a giant ear of corn myself, I found some nice artistry and more than a little camp in the whole experience.
Something that might horrify you, if you were not corn, is that the stalks sometimes have what appears to be long green fingers at the bottom. It looks as if, if the corn felt like it, it could get up and walk away. Or collectively: pick up and run toward you like a huge, hellish corn army. Just think about that! Think about that tonight when you go to sleep! I will include a picture below so you can have a visual for your nightmares:
Cocktail Recipe: The Paper Plane
I can’t tell if the author of this article is trying to “make this a thing,” but you be the judge when you read the story that I am going to lazily copy-paste below. Now that I am a huge corn, whiskey cocktails are top of mind.
“The Paper Plane is a modern cocktail that has soared in popularity (there’s even a California bar named after it) since being created in 2008 by one of NYC’s masters of mixology, Sam Ross. Inspired by the M.I.A. track “Paper Planes,” which Ross was listening to when he thought up the recipe, the drink was originally introduced at the Violet Hour in Chicago and is composed of Campari, bourbon, Amaro Nonino, and lemon juice.” Source: Vinepair
¾ ounce bourbon
¾ ounce Aperol
¾ ounce Amaro Nonino
¾ ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
Directions:
Add ingredients to a shaker with ice and shake until cold. Strain into a coup glass.
Your Moon Sign Horoscope: August 22 - September 6
Virgo season conveniently begins on the August 22nd full moon, welcoming a personal hellscape of nitpicking your own bad habits and making the little changes that will, with some luck, turn into a full makeover. Use the moon to your advantage, focus on some changes and not every change that you could possibly make.
Aries Moon: Virgo season will bring new, sometimes very tiring change into your life. But they will be good changes.
Taurus Moon: What is your guilty pleasure? It’s time to make a list and indulge in a few of your very top picks.
Gemini Moon: You need to spend some more time around water: extremely long baths, maybe some time at the beach or by a river. It will help.
Cancer Moon: It’s time to cut back on the number of things you are working on: even the self-improvement ones. Too much is too much!
Leo Moon: A long drive, perhaps with a wholesome audiobook, will help clear your head and reprioritize you for the season.
Virgo Moon: The squeaky wheel gets the grease, so it’s time to be the squeakiest wheel in the world during your Virgo season.
Libra Moon: It’s the right time for a makeover of your career and career path: a new job description? A dropped hint that maybe, it’s time to hire another person on your team?
Scorpio Moon: You’ve been working hard on self-improvement in your health: this season will give you an extra push to get there.
Sagittarius Moon: People are starting to notice and appreciate you for the work you’ve been doing, so don’t ruin it by stopping!
Capricorn Moon: Sometimes the best act of self care is just a really, really nice meal that you can go buy somewhere.
Aquarius Moon: It’s an ideal season to clean out the waste and excess in your life: start with your cupboard.
Pisces Moon: Your friends will give you all the cheering you will require to meet your many, perhaps too many, goals in the next weeks.
Things That Have Made Me Happy This Week:
My favorite book of 2021 is “The Last of the Duchess” by Caroline Blackwood. It has also unseated a whole host of classics as the best nonfiction I’ve ever read. It can hardly be called a complete biography, as it focuses on the last years of the Duchess of Windsor’s life: the scandalous Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee who ruined the monarchy with her divorced-energy. So rarely does a nonfiction book have a clear villain. Sometimes the villain of a biography might be something obscure, like a terrible childhood or a drinking problem. But this book has one of the most wicked, most deranged, most hilarious villains put to print: and you need to read it to learn more!
I saw Pig last week, what an unexpected treat. It takes everything you assume about Nic Cage and revenge movies and serves up something else, which you might like!
Did you know you can buy a Cinderella-movie-themed Mercedes-Benz? Did this make me happy this week or just made me laugh?