Okay, this right-handed typing is becoming more than irritating. Worse, I have switched from Children’s Chewable Tylenol to Children’s Liquid Tylenol. And now I know why they call it liquid. My brains are sloshing about like pea soup in a bread bowl, splashing left to right and right to left, then back again, taking my eyes with them so that the cats are streaming by in a blackgreywhitebrownspottedstriped blur.
As I lie here, my spongy thoughts are these:
I wish I could read my new Christmas present novels, but I am afraid. As it is, looking at these typed words is a challengechallengechallenge. Oopsy.
Taking a ship across the Atlantic instead of an airplane is probably not the good idea I thought it was.
Whee! I’m a clothesline!
Why are you all getting dizzy?
Vitameatavegamin
Would you care for a peanut butter and clam sandwich?
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One foot on the floor; one foot on the bed. One foot on the floor...
Movies to avoid: Under the Volcano; The Days of Wine and Roses; The Hangover; Barfly; Vertigo; Animal House; Arthur; The Lost Weekend; Withnail & I; Arthur II: On the Rocks; Leaving Las Vegas; Sideways; Moby Dick; Arthur: The Remake
Genetics! Genetics! Genetics!
When I was 17, it was a very good year...
Are you unpopular?
We're on a carousel, a crazy carousel
And now we go around again we go around
And now we spin around, we're high above the ground
And down again around, and up again around
So high above the ground, we feel we've got to yell
We're on a carousel , a crazy carousel
“You’ve got to climb Mount Everest to reach The Valley of the Dolls. It’s a brutal climb to reach that peak. You stand there waiting for the rush of exhilaration. But it doesn’t come. You’re alone and the feeling of loneliness is overpowering.” And later, “Look. They drummed you right outta Hollywood! So ya come crawlin' back to Broadway. Well, Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now you get outta my way, I got a guy waitin' for me.”
Do you poop out at parties?
Elwood P. Dowd: “Harvey and I sit in the bars...have a drink or two...play the jukebox. And soon the faces of all the other people…they turn toward mine and they smile. And they're saying, "We don't know your name, mister, but you're a very nice fella." Harvey and I warm ourselves in all these golden moments. We've entered as strangers - soon we have friends. And they come over...and they sit with us...and they drink with us...and they talk to us. They tell about the big terrible things they've done and the big wonderful things they'll do. Their hopes, and their regrets, and their loves, and their hates. All very large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar. And then I introduce them to Harvey...and he's bigger and grander than anything they offer me. And when they leave, they leave impressed. The same people seldom come back; but that's envy, my dear. There's a little bit of envy in the best of us.”
Do you really think that all that booze is going to make you straight?
But now the days grow short
I'm in the autumn of the year
And now I think of my life as vintage wine
from fine old kegs…
from the brim to the dregs
