The Unquenchable Desire For Ice

You don’t know what you froze ‘til it’s gone

After everything went to hell, the thirst began.

—Not just any wet desire either, but the crying want for hard, cold, indisputable ice.

Popular culture is now awash in yearning for everything frozen. This year, two Oscar nominees who had nothing else in common, were devoted to the existential loss of ice.

They surely were inspired in previous years by do…