The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform friends that, like, 'rain sucks!' But there's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.
Gillian FlynnTags: change technology drinking sarcasm video-games alcohol americans new-age the-future recession tv bar the-past changes electronics the-internet electronic-books bourbon a-drink electronic-revolution electronic-software the-public the-recession
We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned.
Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat.
Tags: loss vanity drinking failure alcohol irony cat bar new-beginnings bars audrey-hepburn snobs breakfast-at-tiffany-s the-recession new-yorkers
...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.
Gillian FlynnTags: life thinking love loneliness alcohol lonely empty thoughts cold drink okay stuck-in-a-rut fine mediocre average not-good-enough alone-forever try-too-hard
Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.
Gillian FlynnTags: thinking cats sleep ignorance drinking alone self-assurance alcohol lonely sleeping thoughts alcoholic cat insomnia mantra murphy-s-law the-mind talking-to-yourself ignoring voices-inside-your-head thinking-process playing-hard-to-get binging empty-your-head stop-thinking
Farrell had seen pure white drunkenness before, but not often enough to recognize it at sight. He knew the thing itself, however--the freight train rattling and lurching comically from hilarity to slobbering sorrow, picking up speed as it passed through wild, aimless anger straight on into wild sickness; and then, running smoothly and almost silently now, into a dark place of shaking and sweating and crying, and out again with no warning to where a dazzling snowy light made everything very still.
Peter S. BeagleTags: alcohol drunkenness
As a man gets older, his regrets changes. Especially when he's gotten into the Scotch.
Robert CraisTags: wisdom men alcohol regret scotch
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis Jr.Tags: stupidity patience alcohol
My mother agreed to aid my abuse of alcohol but only if I promised never to tell my newly converted Mormon sister, whose identity I had stolen.
Chelsea HandlerTags: humor family alcohol identity-theft
I don't like to overdose. Call me old-fashioned.
Chelsea HandlerTags: humor drugs drinking alcohol drug-use
I have a question. Is it okay to drink while you're pregnant...if you're planning on giving the baby up for adoption?
Chelsea HandlerTags: humor drinking alcohol pregnancy
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