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Charles Foster my great, great, great grandfather (yes, he was that great) led a drunken life after a childhood of chilling abuse. And here stands his house–a bit drunk looking itself. What a...
View ArticleWhen One Drink Leads to Another . . .
Note bemused wife on porch. Courtesy of HCV How could young William Weldon help it? His Uncle Simon was a drinker and his father was, well, a morphine eater (but don’t tell anyone that). In my...
View ArticleInebriate Asylum
Courtesy UK Mail Okay, so anyone who’s read my blog for a while knows I’m obsessed with substance abuse. I like to keep it at a very close distance–like, let’s say, the person sitting next to me....
View ArticleDrunken Loser Love Song
Gotta love the Pogues though I don’t know how Shane MacGowan is still alive . . . he is alive, right?
View ArticleFiction: Sobriety Lost
William pushed aside his glass, remembering the first time he took a drink. When William and a few greenhorn privates, hanging together like newborn pups, had first visited town Haviland sauntered up....
View ArticleFiction: Drawing From Memory
William sat beneath a cottonwood in the searing heat trying to ignore the hordes of flies and eye gnats commuting from breeze to hot breeze. Kenyon gave him the well-kept sable brushes and the vivid...
View Article5 Stages of Inebriation and a Timeline
DRUNK LINKS: THE FIVE STAGES OF INEBRIATION A TIMELINE OF DRUNK SYNONYMS ARTISTS AND ALCOHOL featured image: ‘Hip Hip Hurrah!’ Peder Severin Kroyer, Goteborgs Konstmuseum
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