Why ticks are useful, a recipe for parboiled Ariel, and...
...other overcooked reflections on the summer of our discontent: 2023. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE
AS THE SUN CLIMBS ever higher in the sky, the editors of the New York Times are giving us reasons for dread rather than celebration.
In a recent article entitled IS THAT A SUMMER HOUSE I SEE? I MISSED YOU, WE SHOULD CATCH UP, the newspaper of record warned those of us who don’t have summer homes not to bother friends who do have them.
The article set my cartoonist brain aflame with a summery sense of exclusion that extends along all of the nation’s coasts and waterways.
Actually, ticks are pretty useful. They give the rest of us a chance to feel what it’s like to be an involuntary host.
Meanwhile, the summer movie releases are beginning to trickle out, including Disney’s live-action version of The Little Mermaid. Here’s a typical scathing review, from the Movie Madness Podcast: “Everything underwater looks like a bad deepfake, each new song is worse than the last, the Under the Sea number is like a Baz Luhrmann vomitorium and an unbearable additional 50 minutes make this an all-around atrocity.”
Mermaid stew, anyone?
Of course, some staycationers will enjoy this summer.
Happy sun season, everyone!
'God I hate Chardonnay'! 🤣
Oh I miss summer already! Here it feels like the big freeze... And winter is still coming! Raining buckets! and anything less than 16 degrees we, Southerners just can't cope with. Best place to be, under the covers. Enjoy your summer! 🌞