I am out of wine so I’m sure this post will be less than spectacular. Great writers are always drunk right? Maybe I just heard that somewhere…
There is so much to be done before I leave for Orlando. Tonight I am cleaning and catching up on important emails I owe people, a well as gathering all the paperwork for filing my claim tomorrow (AAAAAAA!!!). Tomorrow I have to pack me, pack Madeleine, finish cleaning, do my homework that is due on Wednesday, and I think a lot more things but for some reason I can’t be persuaded to get off the couch and go back to scrubbing the toilet. Oh! Make cupcakes! I have to bring cupcakes for Thanksgiving. Pumpkin cupcakes. Yummmm.
I thought I really did have something to say, but apparently I don’t. Maybe I should go back to toilets.
All for now. I’ll update later.
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November 20, 2007 at 3:47 pm
re:patrick
Great writers are always drunk! I totally agree.
I wish I could get off the hook for bringing real food to thanksgiving. Pumpkin cupcakes sound so much more, I dunno, irresponsible an item to bring. 
Have a safe trip. Are you taking Madeleine?
November 25, 2007 at 3:00 am
WJM
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time…. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers -– common garden-variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claim that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit…. Hemingway and Fitzgerald didn’t drink because they were creative, alienated, or morally weak. They drank because it’s what alkies are wired up to do. Creative people probably do run a greater risk of alcoholism and addiction than those in some other jobs, but so what? We all look pretty much the same when we’re puking in the gutter.” -Stephen King, On Writing, pp. 98-99.
November 26, 2007 at 12:26 am
Allan
The pumpkin cupcakes were good too!
And to WJM: what would Stephen King know about art? He, like Edgar Allen Poe, is merely a master of literary psychology. Interesting science, but definitely not art.
November 26, 2007 at 12:48 am
amanda
john, i think that stephen king is calling folks on their bullshit, yes, but i think he might be too quick to discount the correlation between creativity and alcoholism (or any addiction i guess). not that there is causation, but the correlation is interesting to me on multiple levels, the psychology and such behind both art and addiction is interesting.
his statement that Hemingway and Fitzgerald didn’t drink because they were alienated… well… as someone who has had some taste of both alienation and depression (but not, so far, an alcoholic i don’t think) i think it’s easier said than done on the part of mr. king
allan i definitely agree about poe!
November 26, 2007 at 12:57 am
Allan
“but not, so far, an alcoholic i don’t think”
-maybe you should then revisit your list of favorite things from “poor me” – lol!
November 26, 2007 at 12:59 am
amanda
yeah yeah yeah. i knew someone would go there.
November 28, 2007 at 5:54 am
Jenn
if great writers are always drunk, and i’m always drunk, does that make me a great writer?
i hope so.