At times like these, I always remember this quote (which I first saw in an Oliver Burkeman essay in The Guardian): "No pleasure," Kingsley Amis said, "is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare."
my three beer a day habit plus whiskeys on some nights. The immediate rewards in physical health and mental clarity are impressive. The harridans that come after your sanity are also impressive. The stuff alcohol suppressed will have to be dealt with.
Your second novel - Must be Absurdistan. My favorite!
Me, I'm two months now on the Ozempic. Losing a little weight. No alcohol. Tried half a beer yesterday, yuck. Would that the Metformin had any effect on my weight, but no. Medicare won't cover the Mounjaro; I'm hoping that it doesn't have the same effect with alcohol and that I can get it someday. Supposed to be more effective than Ozempic. It's not semiglutide.
The answer is right there, Gary: “No moderate drinking isn’t good for your health”. Meaning, of course, that moderate drinking IS good for your health.
The War Against the Adult Habit of Drinking
At times like these, I always remember this quote (which I first saw in an Oliver Burkeman essay in The Guardian): "No pleasure," Kingsley Amis said, "is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare."
I was forced to give up
my three beer a day habit plus whiskeys on some nights. The immediate rewards in physical health and mental clarity are impressive. The harridans that come after your sanity are also impressive. The stuff alcohol suppressed will have to be dealt with.
As always, perfectly stated. I loved your second novel! (I may have been drunk when I read it).
Your second novel - Must be Absurdistan. My favorite!
Me, I'm two months now on the Ozempic. Losing a little weight. No alcohol. Tried half a beer yesterday, yuck. Would that the Metformin had any effect on my weight, but no. Medicare won't cover the Mounjaro; I'm hoping that it doesn't have the same effect with alcohol and that I can get it someday. Supposed to be more effective than Ozempic. It's not semiglutide.
A life of withering internal misery. Couldn’t have said it better myself. ❤️
Also, being an adult will kill you more certainly than your drinking will.
I SO live vicariously through your drinking. Your martinis give me deep joy. Please persist! ❤️ 🍸
Surely, the next step will be to bring back the Salem witch trials.
No one, whatever vice or habit, gets out of this world alive, so ...
We lead the world in the race toward extinction.
"That's his third martini." --The Guy in the Background of the Photo
YES! I’m with you. Off to meet some friends for apre ski :)
The answer is right there, Gary: “No moderate drinking isn’t good for your health”. Meaning, of course, that moderate drinking IS good for your health.