I Spent Wednesday Evening with a Bottle of Gin and a Pile of Old Magazines, Wasting Time on a Stupid Task
It was a delightful waste of time.
Topic
Food and Drink
A collection of 574 issues
Shift in Drinking Habits
It seems alcohol is reeling. Every week, I see stories about another industry that's hurting, but few stories point to the culprit: legal marijuana.
In my generation, I see many adults who drink far less but smoke far more (or eat edibles). I've known at least
The Vertical Farming Bubble is Finally Popping
Adele Peters at Fast Company
Dorothy Parker was a Brilliant Slut and Four Other Sundries to Entertain Your Friends at the Bar Tonight
The godfather of modern libertarianism, Albert Nock, was in his prime during Prohibition. Needless to say, he railed against it, noting once that it’s absurd to regulate something that, in nature, flows as freely as water.
He’s right, of course. And the fact that it flows as freely
Do You Have a Totalitarian Impulse?
Drinking with friends and the Diocletian Test
Do you have a totalitarian impulse?
Ask yourself: "Do I think the government's goals or aims should take priority over human nature?" Put another way: "Do I think the government's noble end justifies a bad means?
The Art of Ghosting (First Take)
Don't tell them "goodbye"
It’s not often that I read something at Slate and say, “Rat own!” But this guy pretty much nails it, even if he doesn’t go quite far enough in my opinion: Don’t Say Goodbye.
He advocates a thing called
The Art of Ghosting (Second Take)
Ghosting. The Irish Goodbye. The Drunken Magician.
All synonyms for my favorite drinking move: Leaving the gathering without saying goodbye.
I know it’s socially unacceptable. It even rises to the level of rudeness if it leaves your friends with concerns that you might be hurt (like the time I
English Drunks, Both Fictional and Not
I linked to The Guardian’s obituary of Wilfrid Sheed (1940-2011) yesterday. Sheed’s first book was A Middle Class Education (1960), which was apparently semi-autobiographical, much like Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited.
The Guardian notes that there’s a lot of drinking in Middle Class:
Owing more to Kingsley
How Alcohol Fuels Civilization
Gonna pick me up a six-pack of art this evening
Marshall McLuhan made himself a household name, writing about media. Media are tools, things that extend ourselves: a hammer extends our fist, flashlights extend our eyes, etc.
I'm not sure he ever considered whether alcohol might be a
Micro-Bio: Charles Bukowski
“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”
That’s Charles Bukowski. The Bard of Booze. Legendary drunk, cult favorite, darling of the L.A. literary underground.
His true life stories fueled Barfly