Great read (and a sterling idea by the Japanese government, at least in so far as "sterling idea" and "government" can exist in the same sentence). Your humour reminds me a lot of Kingsley Amis, here more than ever. If you haven't read his collection "Everyday Drinking" I can almost guarantee you'd enjoy it. It is only a semi-exaggeration to say that his prose convinced me to embrace authorly alcoholism.
I need it for PTSD, and had to go to nasty places to get it for years. If I do not use it, I can get dreams in bright comic-book colors, which leave me exhausted in the morning.
"There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness—to bring him down to the miserable level of 'good' men, i.e., of stupid, cowardly and chronically unhappy men."
MENCKEN!! The skeptic's skeptic and the misanthrope's misanthrope...boy could we ever use him now...
Great read (and a sterling idea by the Japanese government, at least in so far as "sterling idea" and "government" can exist in the same sentence). Your humour reminds me a lot of Kingsley Amis, here more than ever. If you haven't read his collection "Everyday Drinking" I can almost guarantee you'd enjoy it. It is only a semi-exaggeration to say that his prose convinced me to embrace authorly alcoholism.
Ha! I've had that book on my shelf for years... I'll read it.
Cannabis is better, and I have changed over to it.
Each to their own. Weed makes me anxious. Though, 'Lemon Amnesia' in Amsterdam brings back fond, hazy memories.
I need it for PTSD, and had to go to nasty places to get it for years. If I do not use it, I can get dreams in bright comic-book colors, which leave me exhausted in the morning.
Jeez. I've read hopeful stuff regarding PTSD and Psilocybin. A veteran friend of mine swears by it...
https://youtu.be/o3gcK6AmEB8
Brilliant! Thank you.
A friend of mine from Mississippi does this speech every year from memory at this gathering we attend. Leeeeettle cheeeldren!
Glad you enjoyed it.
"Each generation spawns a new puritan pre-programmed with the desire to stop anyone, anywhere, from being happy." The ghost of H. L. Mencken approves.
"Oxford Sour, I am proud to announce, now occupies a foreign government." Ha! When's the triumph?
Mencken got tired of my weekly quotation of his work.
We're going to invade France. It's easy and they have culture.
"There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness—to bring him down to the miserable level of 'good' men, i.e., of stupid, cowardly and chronically unhappy men."
MENCKEN!! The skeptic's skeptic and the misanthrope's misanthrope...boy could we ever use him now...
(sorry couldnt help myself)
Clever Pseudonym bringing the moonshine, as usual. Cheers!
hey, a sour yet gracious host brings out the best in me...all thanks to u!
Good. Happiness is for children, and the dead. Drink up!
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!
Hilaire Belloc
I must read Belloc. I love de Maupassant.
Psalms 94:15 "Wine gladdens a man's heart" (תהילים ק"ד ט"ו: ויין ישמח לבב אנוש)
Cheers, sir!