Clocked Out

Clocked Out: Coconut clouds, cold tonics, your friend's pool and other things to quell summer heat (and sickness)

Are you recovering from FLiRT? Hungover? Tired of the heat? Here are a few remedies.

Kat Schuster

Jul 23, 2024 — 5 min read

The Big Island Ube ($6) is a Hamakua Coast ube housemade soda topped with a coconut cloud. Photo by Kat Schuster.

Did you miss me? You didn't receive my column last week because I was singing I've got that 🎵summertime, summertime sickness🎵.

I was taken out by a bug so nasty that it rendered horizontal in my muggy bedroom for days on end. Stuck in bed?! In the summertime heat? As a Leo born in July, this felt like cruel and unusual punishment.

There is, indeed, a summertime bug flitting its way around town, not to mention FLiRT — which is NOT a new hyperpop album — but it is yet another (another!!) COVID variant.

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