Remember this?? (Remember US???)
The last time I did one of these it was January 28th.
So much has happened since then and now it feels like an entire decade has elapsed: our 16-year-old cat Felix died, I wrote an entire cocktail book, we got TWO NEW CATS, our balcony pigeons had two squabs. And yet despite this massive passage of time, season 14 of drag still has three more episodes until the finale. (Although I’m not complaining, I think this season has one of the strongest overall casts of the franchise.)
This is Tetris
Kinda hard to make out but this is a picture of the two baby pigeons on our balcony.
And speaking of seasons, another thing that’s happened since late January is we started recording Recipe Club SEASON TWO. Structurally, it’s a bit different from last season where we just picked recipes from the ether, unbeknownst to their authors. This time around we are asking for submissions, which we will then run through during each show. Basically: send us your recipes, and each episode we’ll choose one, make it, and talk about it.
Which recipes should I send, you ask? Well you have to listen to the draft episode HERE to find out which ingredients we’re going with this season. And you can send your submissions to thefixer@majordomomedia.com and hope for the best. Also you should join the Discord server HERE; most of the recipe club action happens in the #recipe-clubhouse channel.
(As an aside, I have to say that I’m still a little iffy on the idea of being on a Spotify-funded podcast given that they platform anti-vax anti-trans podcasters like J*e R*gan, but I realize how little me refusing to participate would move the needle, and the only person who it would harm is myself.)
Writing a book super fast definitely exhausted me, but I still had a few pieces come out in the past few weeks. The one that I’m most happy about is this interview I did with musician Michete. When I first started doing interviews for Thrillist, I started by focusing on drag queens who were also bartenders, which I found a bit limiting for a monthly series, so we expanded to the focus to include Queer/LGBTQIA+ performers in general.
have been a follower of Michete for a couple years now and was actually super nervous to interview her as the first non-explictly “Drag” performer of the series. Well, she ended up being really nice and funny! And sadly due to word count limits, some of our conversation had to be left out, but you can read the results HERE.
Also, please check out my latest videos for Food52! My March installment is all about the iconic Penicillin cocktail (plus some glimpses into my recipe development for the upcoming book).
April’s is a super breezy lavender situation that also has a little bonus videowhere I show you how to make an origami lilly which is a great substitute for an edible orchid when you want to garnish a drink with a flower.
Let’s close out with some music videos? I think I’ve alluded to Rina Sawayama before but I recently re-fell in love with her thanks to Brazillian Drag artist Pablo Vittar’s Follow Me video.
For those of you who need a refresher on Rina Sawayama, check out her incredible anti-consumerist anthem XS, which also gave us one of the best recorded live performances of a song I’ve come across in a long time.
Thanks for reading! Please forward this to someone you like.
Love,
-JdB
