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August 28, 2009
- .Drink I am fond of my drop of stout,It helps me to unwind no doubt,It gives me false confidence to ask girls out,My hang-ups and inhibitions without,I can snog and slow dance plastered just about,Or alone on stage I sing a knock out,A pint of Guinness or cider will do,Or a vodka even gin with redbull thank-you,It is great to blame ...
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May 16, 2009
April 3, 2009
- ACT ONEHe was small, a Japanese Napoleon. His pal had a bald patch like a monk. The Japanese was on the voice treadmill, the monk was silent, listening, like a vow. Expensive scotch was ordered, Napoleon asked to see the bottle. I left it there. And forgot about it. They went to the jukebox and loaded it up with heavy metal, music not to listen to at 1.30am. I yelled last call. And remembered ...
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March 19, 2009
- I have just started writing another book. That means I have a lot of other things I suddenly have to be doing all day long. Robert Benchley explained this phenomenon very well in about 1930 in an essay called "How to Get Things Done" where he proposes the following key psychological principal: "Anyone can do any amount of work , providing it isn't the work he is supposed to be ...
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January 27, 2009
- He liked a bit of powder, James Bond, benzedrine was his choice of sniff. Raking up the buzz in the early novels, trying not to be over confident on a combo of bennys and champage, when executing the plan for Queen and Country. Bond's success is really the product of a drunken glory, a golden age when being drunk stood for something good. Sadly, being drunk is now sadly frowned upon, or ...
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May 21, 2008
- I don't know what happened, but I started drinking at my company Christmas party and I never stopped. It's mid-May, so guess I'm a drinker now.My friend once prefaced a comment with, "This is probably just because I'm a 37-year-old mother, but..." and it was something about wishing she'd slept with more guys, or something like that. I kind of like that disclaimer; every time I think ...
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March 27, 2008
- How many of you out there watch nature programs? Well if you have, you've seen the chicks in the nest being fed by the adults, greedily gobbling the food. Last night, I was that adult . I was feeding the chicks booze. That was their hunger. More powerful than the need for bread. And did they fly! Into each other, with hugs and kisses, soaring across the bar in flights of fancy, dropping feathers, ...
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January 28, 2008
- When I poured my first pint, she was one. Now twenty years later, a million pints delivered, she received a glass from me, her bartender. Soft cheeks, on the face and no doubt down below, the age of drinking arrived for her, the path to a little hardness, or much damage for some. I had helped many on the road to alcoholic destruction. I served a man with liver cancer a beer. This night, I ...
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