Drinking is the new reading!!

Yes everyone. It is official. Drinking IS the new reading. You no longer have to feel bad about your lack of literary intake due to alcohol's stupifying grip. Having said this. You should also know that beligerant IS NOW the new smart! Drink up einsteins!!!!

well said.

ALSO: alcohol poisoning is the new well-read.

Percent of adults who drank alcohol in the past year: 62.5
Percent of adults who read a book all of last year: 57

That statistic makes me sad.

it's funny because it's true. I drink more than I read, and I'm a serious book addict by a lot of people's standards.

so you mean people are going to drink half a cocktail and then tell their friends to go drink it so they will look more intellectual than they really are?

Me too. Of course, I like alcohol, but the fact that so many millions of Americans will not read even one book is quite pathetic.

ok, to marry alcoholism and literature.... i quote from hunter s. thompson's "the rum diary"

Those were the good mornings, when the sun was hot and the air was quick and promising, when the Real Business seemed right on the verge of happening and I felt that if I went just a little faster I might overtake that bright and fleeting thing that was always just ahead.

Then came noon, and the morning withered like a lost dream. The sweat was torture and the rest of the day was littered with the dead remains of all those things that could have happened, but couldn't stand the heat. When the sun got hot enough it burned away all the illusions and I saw the place as it was - cheap, sullen, and garish - nothing good was going to happen here.

Sometimes at dusk, when you were trying to relax and not think about the general stagnation, the Garbage God would gather a handful of those choked-off morning hopes and dangle them somewhere just out of reach; they would hang in the breeze and make a sound like delicate glass bells, reminding you of something you never quite got a hold of, and never would. It was a maddening image, and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum. Often it was easier not to wait, so the drinking would begin at noon. It didn't help much, as I recall, except that sometimes it made the day go a little faster.


djb

i dont drink. but i read a lot. i guess i'm not cool.

Well, I'm off to the "library", to "read" a lot and flirt with "librarians", and possibly "soil myself in public".

Sorry to disappoint folks... but I have a reading problem. *sob*

All of my books are hollwed out, and holding flasks of various liquors. I look really well read.

I tend to stumble and act silly if I read too much.

So, does fetal alcohol syndrome = Baby Einstein?

Does is make you ultra-cool is you do both in great quantities? Please say yes, cause that would mean I'm cool.

Freaking Hell!!!!

When I read a lot; drinking was the in thing.

Then I started Drinking, and all of a sudden, everyone was reading.

And what do you know...


...Now that've I've stopped drinking and started reading again, it swtiches on me again.

I swear to christ damn god fuckin almighty I'm gonna be cool one of these days; I really will!

man i "read" every day now

morning, noon, and night...reading is all i do.

Damnit...this means I have to quit drinking and start reading so I can stay old school.

Diesel Sweeties!!!!!!1 *high five* score!

I have a really great job that allows me to sit on my ass and read novels for 3 hours a day. But they wont let us drink.

hahaha, that made my evening

Does this mean that I can get cliffnotes for a bottle of tequila?