Not much to say today, folks. Feeling quiet. Happy.
We visited some good friends in Pittsburgh earlier in the year and had a jolly good time. Amita explained that the proper way to eat Jon's aguachile was by taking a bite of the antagonistically spicy and citrus-cured shrimp, sipping on your beer, then dragging from a cigarette. The order of operations is, I believe, flexible.
One day, we went to the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh's famous artist-founded exhibition space strewn across multiple venues. With the exception of one artwork I'll write about in a future newsletter, the art left something(s) to be desired: very 2000s, scrappy-but-not-DIY-enough, "site-specific"-but-in-a-temporary-space energy.
With good friends, though, anything is a pleasure. I remember very fondly sitting in the cafe and enjoying handfuls of Ukrainian chocolates they were selling by the register for cents on the hryvnia.
Just wanted to share this gorgeous wrapper with you. It's from a Roshen Koriva, one of my favorites of that haul. These candies are little fudgey unglazed milk fondant rolls with a liquid center. Luxurious and arcadian.
Pick some up after you donate to a respectable Ukrainian relief fund! The company's based in Kyiv.
love,
alex
ʕ ·ᴥ·ʔ SOON: The above-mentioned artwork and a Thai artist who lectured corpses about death!!