This blog is about alcoholism with particular emphasis on the destructive behavior patterns exhibited by those alcoholics who have not yet reached the final, self-destructive stage. In other words, most of them
Phil
Parker, the son of a Baptist preacher, said he had never tasted liquor
until his Harvard graduate school classmates lured him into a smoky
cocktail lounge for the first time.
“This
night in the bar was like no other time in my life,” he wrote years
later. “Not only was I completely at ease, but I actually loved all the
strangers around me and they loved me in return, I thought, all because
of this magic potion, alcohol.”
After
that, he wrote, he lived only to drink. He graduated, but was fired
from one teaching job after another, wound up in an asylum and finally
landed homeless on the then-squalid Bowery in Manhattan in the
mid-1960s. There, he met a social worker, a member of Alcoholics
Anonymous, who told him how she had sobered up.
The techno music pioneer has reached middle age, with a new memoir out about his struggles with alcohol, poverty and success.
... Moby, born Richard Melville Hall and now 50 years old, has sold more
than 20 million albums world-wide; his dozen official releases include
“Play” (1999), “18” (2002) and “Innocents” (2013). It wasn’t an easy
path. He grew up poor in an affluent Connecticut suburb and battled
alcoholism for almost two decades.
... Moby was drinking heavily by the late 1980s, before becoming sober for a few years and then starting to drink again in 1995.
"Simply stated, false accusations are aggressive lies, but we also
know them in milder form as spin, slanting the facts, one-sidedness,
tailoring the message, and so on.
"The author of this book, James Graham, makes the claim repeatedly
that alcoholics very often engage in false accusations. In discussing
this book with my partner, we came to conclude that Graham is right
about this—false accusations do seem to be common among the alcoholics
we both know."
Swigging tequila from a fan's hip flask, Madonna suffered another onstage meltdown yesterday as she branded ex-husband
Guy Ritchie a 'son of a b***h' ...
The
57-year-old singer, locked in a bitter custody dispute with Guy over
their son Rocco, couldn't contain her emotions during a second mumbling
show in Melbourne, Australia.
Her
‘chaotic’ appearance at the Rod Laver Arena included an emotional plea
to the crowd, begging, 'Somebody take care of me please. Who is going to
take care of me?'
... Erratic behaviour: Fans expressed their concern that Madonna was drunk
as she performed in Australia. At one point she asked for a cosmopolitan
cocktail to be brought on stage for her (circled)
