Mid-Week Libation (8.24.22)

Our Curated Splash of Inspiration and Culture

Editor’s Note: Today is Ryan Wildstar’s Birthday! Happy birthday my love!

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.” - Eleanor Roosevelt [https://www.azquotes.com/quote/349432]

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Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Elise Bougy, Chétillon de Haut Grand Cru, Blanc de Blancs (Champagne, France)

Purchase from GluGulp! or Purchase from Wine-Searcher

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Another R&R Playlist for your listening pleasure: Birthday Cocktail Hour!

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Editor’s Note: Today is Ryan Wildstar’s birthday, and yesterday was our wedding anniversary! In honor of our wedding anniversary, here is one of our favorite paintings on the planet, which also inspired the design of our amazing wedding cake!

Irises by Vincent van Gogh (1889)

Irises by Vincent van Gogh (1889)

R&R’s Wedding Cake! Created by cake-artist extraordinaire, Heather Noel Bailey, who created this work of edible art entirely with delicious cupcakes!

Irises: Vincent van Gogh Wedding Cake by Heather Noel Bailey

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Editor’s Note: Together we read the following poem (by our beloved Walt Whitman) at our wedding ceremony.

We Two Boys Together Clinging 
by Walt Whitman

We two boys together clinging,	 
One the other never leaving,	 
Up and down the roads going—North and South excursions making,	 
Power enjoying—elbows stretching—fingers clutching,	 
Arm’d and fearless—eating, drinking, sleeping, loving,	        
No law less than ourselves owning—sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,	 
Misers, menials, priests alarming—air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing,	 
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,	 
Fulfilling our foray.

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Drag Performance of the Week: The one and only RuPaul!

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Happy birthday, Ryan Wildstar! And Happy Wednesday everyone! What are you loving this Wednesday?