I'll drink to that !

I'm not going to flip through a motherfarking 46 page slideshow, but William S Burroughs better be in there.

Here's the non-slideshow version. Link (new window)

but it's fun...

#9

greggm59: Here's the non-slideshow version. Link (new window)

Here's the guy who already posted it:

jaylectricity: Image #2 and #4 show use of alcohol while #3 says booze. And I say "image" instead of "slide" because this. (new window)

God who'd wanna be such an asshole?

Pffffffft amateurs.

Hunter S. Thompson (1937 - 2005): Everything

Brilliant. If he wasn't on the list, that's EXACTLY what I was going to post.

/RIP, HST
//When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

The rebirth part is getting a littel too painful for me these days. Not that it stops me of course...

Dylan Thomas is the subject of many great anecdotes. I particularly like the one about him going to canada and being interviewed, the presenter asked "What brings you to Canada?" to which he replied "There was a barmat in the pub in Ireland, it said 'drink Canada dry', so I thought I'd give it a go."

mudpants: I'll drink to that !

Cheers!

*internet glass bump*

15,000? You've been drunk for 41 years!

Also slide 26 - Ayn Rand. I think she might belong on "faces of meth"

jaylectricity: Also, I can't help but notice how many of these people died in their 40's.

Number one reason for the criminalization of marijuana. If most of these people lit up a spliff instead of pickling themselves there would be a whole lot more literature forced down our throats in high school.

Smurfme: 15,000? You've been drunk for 41 years!

Are you saying that like it's a bad thing?

Well subby that explains the after birth on my kitchen floor every morning.

They got the Dorothy Parker quote wrong. It should be:
"I love a martini, two at the most. Three, I'm under the table, and four, I'm under the host."

Was John Steinbeck an alcoholic? He lived in a time when heavy drinking was the norm, but did he actually have an alcohol dependency?

jaylectricity: Also, I can't help but notice how many of these people died in their 40's.

I'm surprised they live that long. It seems they'd easily wander out into traffic, or into other dangerous situations, in a drunken stupor on a regular basis.

Why is Hitchens not listed?

"Martinis are like a woman's breasts. Three is to many, and one is to few."

No Huxley?

Richard Brautigan = Martin Mull

Thanks to aforementioned libations, I've also woken up some mornings feeling like I was 1000 years old.

Oh good! This means I'm a literary genius!

SDRR: Smurfme: 15,000? You've been drunk for 41 years!

Are you saying that like it's a bad thing?

Yeah, I know. I thought the math would have more of a wow factor to it, but I already put the effort into it. So I went ahead and posted it, not thinking how gay it looked.

Whar Harry Neilson , Hendrix , Entwistle , Moon , whar ?

Ha! I love pictures of authors and I do believe most of them like the drink or other mood-altering stuff. This Li Po poem seems appropriate.


Drinking Alone in the Moonlight

Li Po (701-762 / Chu / Kazakhstan)


Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine,
No friends at hand, so I poured alone;
I raised my cup to invite the moon,
Turned to my shadow, and we became three.
Now the moon had never learned about drinking,
And my shadow had merely followed my form,
But I quickly made friends with the moon and my shadow;
To find pleasure in life, make the most of the spring.

Whenever I sang, the moon swayed with me;
Whenever I danced, my shadow went wild.
Drinking, we shared our enjoyment together;
Drunk, then each went off on his own.
But forever agreed on dispassionate revels,
We promised to meet in the far Milky Way.

Thank you Charles Bukowski, my favorite drunk of all time.

Aphoticamy: "First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."

I tried damn near everything back in the day (including drugs that supposedly would **POOF** make a corner-walker-addict out of me and have me stealing from my Grandmother), and could always take it or leave it, with the exception of booze. Drunken Terminator me. When I drink, I become everything I hate. The list of things I hate is long. I decided to get the fark off that ride. I'd like to stick around a while longer, thanks. To everyone else that can take or leave the shiat, good on you. Count your blessings.

Congratulations! It takes a big man to admit his shortcomings and then take effective steps to stop them.

mudpants: Whar Harry Neilson , Hendrix , Entwistle , Moon , whar ?

Because it's a slideshow about writers not musicians?

I drink to forget which is what happens to you when you die. You forget.

I second that, here's to the great Charles Bukowski!

"Drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now"
so the headline is inaccurate? nevar the fark could that happen, who reads anymore.
And I left out Elvis, Robert Johnson, Bon Scott, Tommy Dorsey, John Bonham, Stiv Bators and Steve Took from the list of drinking is a form of suicide list.

I don't understand how people can focus on writing (or music or art or whatever creative thing) long enough make something coherent when they are drunk.

I know someone who will die of alcoholism. It's not pretty. I doubt he'll live to see 35, which is just a few years away. I've never seen him in a state where he could even sit at a desk and write without falling off.

I guess he's just an alcoholic, not a functional one.

List is fail without Hubert Selby Jr.

greggm59: Here's the non-slideshow version. Link (new window)

I love farkers who do this, thank you Sir