Comments on: Alcohol destroys my will to blog

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:16:19 +0000

First of all, please tell Chester that I’m over him. In typical tomcat fashion, he spends one night with me, and won’t have another thing to do with me in the morning. It’s taken me some time to move on, but the picture… it’s just too painful…

Though I can’t speak for you after a night of Chivas Regal, I can speak to times spent with you and Uncle Overold, and well… I can only imagine. But hey, we’re still friends, you’re hard not to love Mattie, so I’m sure the jobbie folks will keep you ’round.

I wish you luck in your writing at 30… you see how well it’s gone for me, I’m the star in attention span theater fo’sho…
I don’t blame the scotch, I blame the friggin weather. Where the hell is the sun?! I hope you got some down in the ‘Gene, cuz Portland is seriously lacking in that department.

And I’m not commenting on you shooting the birds out of your bathroom window. Put that no good Chester to work!

By: Guy

Guy — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:22:35 +0000

Somehow turning 30 wakes up the mortality awareness in all. Add to that it takes you four times longer to get over a night of partying than it did when you turned 20. By the time you are 50 you will only drink sparkling cider.

By: onemuleteam

onemuleteam — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:21:59 +0000

As far as all time great threat lines go “If you hit me with another peanut I’ll knock you the f*&*& out” is firmly esconsced just below “Make my day” on the classics list.

As for the rest of it, I think you have some good writing brewing–you must as painfully introspective as some of these recent Upstream posts have been.

By: David

David — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:33:47 +0000

Listen man, I almost have that FROM THE ROAD BOOK done. Hopefully I’ll have it in my hands by the time I get out there.

Start writing and we’ll start publishing. Or just start writing. I need some good things to read.

Oregon, I am on my way.

By: Bpaul

Bpaul — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:55:38 +0000

Holy hell in a handbasket, I both used smiley faces AND had them translated into cartoons on your blog.

someone shoot me in the face, it’s been too long a day.

By: Bpaul

Bpaul — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:55:01 +0000

Ethanol is hard on brain function, I find. Sometimes for days afterwards The Wife didn’t drink while in school and found her attention span and ability to concentrate were much improved.

As for blogging being writing… I do understand the important distinction between “informal extemporaneous writing” that blogging often is with us (basically verbal communication through a keyboard) and “real writing” you *can* combine them. Look at our mutual blog hero over at Astoria Rust — he writes, like really writes, that blog.

It could be a good entryway drug to “real’ writing to stiffen up the blog writing. Or that’s what I’m telling myself at least