First things first: I wrote a thing.

Before we get started today, you might remember an issue I wrote a few months ago about an Edward Hopper exhibit in Virginia where you sleep in the recreation of a painting. I just KNEW you all wanted to know more, so I went down there and wrote about it for the New York Times. Read it here or in today’s paper.

Now, to our regularly scheduled programming.

Listen: Fine Wine & Hennessey by Afro B ft. Slim Jxmmi

Afro B is huge in the UK, but he’s got friends all over. His new album, Afrowave 3, loops all kinds of stars into B’s happy afrobeats, notably, T-Pain, Vybez Kartel and Busy Signal. On “Fine Wine & Hennessey,” Rae Sremmurd’s Slim Jxmmi is the guest of honor, helping build a total earworm that also functions as a universal party soundtrack (see the video to confirm). Over the bouncy beat, the simple hook repeats a bunch so you can learn it in the course of the song and start singing it at somebody else on the dance floor. “Two-by-two, one-by-one, Wine like say you no have no man, Pump up it up like a gas station, Pump up it up like a gas station.” AYYYYY.

To fuel said party

Just in time for a season of reveling, Glenlivet has come up with an exciting new concept: liquor pods. Not to be conflated with tide pods (or maybe explicitly to be conflated, who’s to say), these babies deliver about half a shot of liquor in the form of a large gusher. If you want a chaser, consider biting into a whole lime, which if you think about it, is also a pod of sorts. Pods or bust.

Or perhaps you’re “not drinking right now”

True enough: not everyone is partying with whiskey, wine and cognac this year. We’ve got no-liquor liquor; a sober-curious app; and, of course, sobriety influencers. But when not-drinking is a loose lifestyle choice that may involve still using other drugs or even drinking-just-sometimes, it might be helpful to develop some new language to draw the distinction between “kinda just generally trying to not drink this month” and “not using drugs at all.” According to The Cut, there is at least a term to explain when you’re not drinking but still smoking weed: “Cali sober.” West Coast friends, is this a real thing, or just a thing that people in New York made up?

A happy medium $

Cali sober but pod-curious? Pollen has you covered with a CBD gummy worthy of mouth parties everywhere. Each little buddy infuses 10 grams of cannabidiol into vegan gummies with beautiful, natural flavors like grapefruit + honey, berry + peppercorn, and coffee + cacao. And three formulations all cater to specific needs: recharging, recovery and calming. Try them out and get 10% off with our special code, WITHLOREMIPSUM. Yum.

Chin chin,

Margot

$ = sponsored

Pod-curious

November 21, 2019