http://www.stilldrinking.org/ Boozy bitching for bodacious babes. en-us nuketibet@gmail.com http://stilldrinking.org/acceptable-losses Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:45:00 EST In a pathological act of self-destruction, I bought Skyrim the same week that several hard deadlines were set on the sooner portion of my otherwise sparse schedule. Maybe life didn't seem hard enough. Or I just have no ability to fight impulse buying. Or impulses in general. For those of you in the ... http://stilldrinking.org/spilchking Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:55:00 EST There will be some real essays up shortly; been a bit burnt out after the book. In the meantime I want credit for coining this term: Spilchking, v.: The act of typing in gibberish to make sure your spellchecker is working after getting "bourgeois" right on the first try. ... http://stilldrinking.org/grammar-maquis Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:18:00 EST As someone who's a passable and occasionally experimental writer but a terrible editor, I face the wrath of grammar stormtroopers on a daily basis. I understand they're((Made you look. Note that this could be grammatically correct.)) frustrations. Its((This first paragraph is just trying to give you ... http://stilldrinking.org/responses-to-people-telling-me-to-get-over-the-death-thing Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:42:00 EST As an atheist who doesn't want to die, I've heard a lot of arguments as to why I should get over it. Excluding the pearly gates nonsense, they all fall into one of these categories:   You're just changing form This argument has its roots in new agey concepts that borrow liberally and inaccurately ... http://stilldrinking.org/humble-sky Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:51:00 EST Right to the chase. Actually, not right to the chase, because I have to fill some space and get past the giant "R" on the left here, so the quoting indentation doesn't look stupid. You think you're being clever with pretty design decisions, and suddenly it starts affecting your work. Enough. The chase ... http://stilldrinking.org/spektroscopy Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:09:00 EST The first time I saw Regina Spektor was right before she got super famous. At least as far as I know; I like to stay behind the times, but I was at a Dresden Dolls show with my considerably younger girlfriend who was (is) much hipper than I, and it was before THEY were super famous and nobody in the ... http://stilldrinking.org/humorless-and-insane-the-crucifixion-of-ed-rybicki Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:07:00 EST I got in an internet fight a few days ago. "But Peter," you cry, "aren't you old enough to know better? Are bad knees, poor lung capacity, addled memory, alcoholism, debt, painful memories, hypochondria, PTSD, several scars, a pending lawsuit, wrinkles, mild arthritis in your hand joints, a bad back, ... http://stilldrinking.org/michio-kaku-96-awesome Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:11:00 EST If you were on fire and Michio Kaku walked by and, instead of calling for help or putting you out, sat down next to you with a smile and said, "you know, there's a really interesting thing that happens to your body at this temperature," and expounded on that thought for the remainder of your life, ... http://stilldrinking.org/smackdown-baby-vs-kitten Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:21:00 EST A long unaddressed issue in electronic communication has been how to stem the flow of baby pictures. My reaction has always been, "Oh, it looks like Winston Churchill," but that reaction is unutterable in polite society, and ineffective in preventing future baby pictures, especially since we're coming ... http://stilldrinking.org/justin-bieber-s-relationship-advice Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:54:00 EST Anybody who reads more than five of these essays is probably drunk, and has recognized some recurring themes: Life is meaningless. People should be nice to each other. Despite theme 2, I'm kind of dick most of the time.((Related: I boldly embrace hypocrisies no man has embraced before.)) Life ... http://stilldrinking.org/etiquette-lost Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:50:00 EST I recently picked up a slim volume called "I Like Your Work: A Guide to Etiquette in the Art World." I'm not sure why I bought it, aside from having a lot of arguments about art and Art with my heterosexual life-mate, and having recently seen Untitled, which is the only good work of art ever to bear ... http://stilldrinking.org/searle-s-court Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:10:00 EST The employees of Manhattan civil court building are some of the nicest people I've ever met. It astounds me anew every time I go: everyone from the security guard to the clerk on the phone to the people helping me fill out my small claims form to the mediator who told me I should reschedule for a day ... http://stilldrinking.org/for-fuck-s-sake-irene Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:27:00 EST I hear about the storm for the first time on August 23rd. It is a bad day. I spill water on my laptop before I've finished my morning coffee. Having done this before, I yank the cables out, turn it off, soak up what I can with a paper towel, and leave it to dry. A coworker suggests I get a big bag ... http://stilldrinking.org/_stony-blue-vega Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:27:00 EST I was going through the police beat the other day, looking for old high school friends, when I read something so beautiful it made me cry.((I've recieved two letters about this essay. The first was from a 19-year-old girl defending him and calling me an asshole. She gave me the real story, which is ... http://stilldrinking.org/_ian-m-tripp-is-building-a-bomb Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:27:00 EST Considering how few packages I get outside or inside the holiday months, I sometimes wonder if merely looking at the recipient\'s address on the boxes in my building qualifies as stalking. Considering the slim to none odds of an unexpected package being for me, my daily interest has graduated from ... http://stilldrinking.org/the-episode-conclusions Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:13:00 EST I'm a pretty good amateur pool player. Not a hustler, not consistent, not pro, not going to Vegas or winning any trophies, but I can beat 90% of the people in the world who pick up a pool cue. I'm just good enough to realize pool is more like chess than bowling; in eight ball, your opponent can have ... http://stilldrinking.org/the-episode-aftermath Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:28:00 EST I like being alive. You ever been asked that question, "Would you die to save 10 strangers?" and you say no, so they keep bumping the number up until you have to pause and think, "Wow, 10 million people is like a small country," and you have to think about it? My unhesitating answer is always "Not ... http://stilldrinking.org/the-episode-part-16-the-end Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:54:00 EST All things must come to an end. I hate this fact more than anything else. I even enjoy bad things. I'm fully on the technology bandwagon; I only hope we get around to making ourselves immortal before the god-fearing fanatics blow us up in a bid to get what we can have without all that mess. But I know ... http://stilldrinking.org/the-episode-part-15-the-light-and-the-void Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:32:00 EST Emotion trumps reason. Always. You can stop yourself from screaming and curb the urge toward violence, but your thoughts are shaped by how you feel. You can throw some feedback into your hormones, but the impetus for even that effort is rooted in your mood. If you take someone and cut the link between ... http://stilldrinking.org/the-episode-part-14-released-back-into-the-wild Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:29:00 EST Every place I went was relatively safe. My parents' house, a tourist town winding down for the season, a hippy festival with friends, a mental institution, and finally the University of Maine. If I'd been in Brooklyn when this all happened, I'd be one of those guys you see the police tasing in the ... http://stilldrinking.org/the-episode-part-13-crazy-love Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:22:00 EST As already described, there's no sex like crazy sex. There's no joy like crazy joy. There's no fear like crazy fear. And there's absolutely no love like crazy love. I've been in love exactly five times while sane. I don't believe in fate, meaning, or even free will; I think love is a poetic illusion ...