The Horror

Things happen while intoxicated, alcohol will never -ever!- make you sound any smarter or definitely make you think any clearer -quite the contrary. Like my friend who uses it as a social crutch while the other just comes out of his shell and has the funniest anecdotes, before he has one too many. Then, you guessed it, it’s sinister. Alcohol is the one true exorcist and I gotta tell you that as a former agnostic and paradoxically confused on the whole aspect of G-O-D, those demons come out violently and out for others. It finds those restless souls just moving around waiting for their house to be remodeled, waiting for their host to find a decorating style and keep it, still quite vulnerable. The things we share, the things we say, the people we… touch and the mistakes we make. Some of us are not built for affairs or just that moment before you black out where you said that one thing you regret. Here comes Alice and her reason for existence, she may not be that kind of person but she’s always there to add cumin to an already spicy dish. She does not worry about others when her sights are on someone special that has decided -earlier that evening- that they were going to just “drink.” It’s the calling of the intellect that supersedes physical attraction, the one thing men are programmed to be concerned with. We diet and we quit our vices, including the excess of alcohol to avoid encounters with people that will aid us in our decadence. And so it happens, alone in a darkened room, you and Alice no longer concerned for what you say or who you hurt because, well, you and her have been taking shots all night and this late, well, any other salvations have hit the sack and, well, she keeps telling you how human all of this is… she’s beautiful in her imperfections, isn’t she?

Got caught in the act at the very wrong time
Found it like striking a match on the gasoline fire
Watch the slug that slides along the edge of a razor blade; It’s about the pain

To the mundane…
So I am very close to landing a great job that starts at five AM. I refuse to quit caffeine and for the next three to five years, do not EVER suggest I switch to decaf!

“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.” -P.J. O’Rourke