June 17, 2008
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A SOBER Bloomsday
The other St. Patrick’s Day used to be today…you get drunk out of your mind and go listen to a reading of
Ulysses, preferably some chick reading Molly Bloom’s soliloquy…
So i just happened to finish my second book last Bloomsday,
and i drank a bottle of wine, Joyce’s favourite drink—to celebrate the task—little did i know that would end
up being me last drink…well, not last exactly since i hoisted a few before my birthdday, had a glass of
champagne for New Year’s Eve, and one hot & sticky day i needed a Bud after work, 24 ounces and i was
out like a light…silly fuckin’ saying.Ain’t no demons knocking down the door…well, no alcohol demons…..
Loosies are seventy-five cents now, the cent
sign may have been obliterated, but them cents add
up in the ghetto
With cigarettes anywhere between $7 to $10 a pack that
is next on the agenda…although they’ve hyped cigarettes up
with so many additional addictive agents now that it’s almost
impossible to quit
Part of Ulysses centers around the General Slocum disaster…
a tragedy of 9/11 proportions that is totally forgotten in NYC history
Comments (9)
Congrats!!! you’ve been ‘exorcising’! What’s Bloomsday
I had to look up loosies and Bloomsday. Sometimes I wonder if this page is really in English.
I couldn’t have downed 24 ounces of alcohol unless it was fed to me through a feeding funnel ala the victims of foie gras.
And here I thought Ulysses was good for nothing.
.. I’ve spent many mornings lookin’ like that cat…
PS- I saw your comment about the ‘King of Queens’… I’ve caught that a couple times in re-runs right… I dig that guy Spencer.. he’s in his mid-thirties, living with his mother, making a living guarding a turnstyle down in the NY subway.. and he got tossed out of a moving car by Adam West..
he’s awesome as hell ~
In the spirit of what Dan Quayle said about the holocaust while still vice-president: “I don’t know anything about the Slocum disaster. I wasn’t born in this century”. (Later I did look Slocum up. I suppose Dan Quayle looked up the holocaust as well.) The difference is that Quayle actually said that he wasn’t born in “this” century when it was still the 1900s so he WASN’T implying that the holocaust happened in a century other than the 1900s …. which makes me wonder to this day if his Freudian slip was that he was thinking subconsciously that he was born in the 1800s or the 2000s ….. maybe he was astralprojecting to a past life that actually wasn’t this century and was before the holocaust …. in any event, we had a VP that was clearly emptyheaded about the holocaust.
In the spirit of what Dan Quayle said about the holocaust while still vice-president: “I don’t know anything about the Slocum disaster. I wasn’t born in this century”. (Later I did look Slocum up. I suppose Dan Quayle looked up the holocaust as well.) The difference is that Quayle actually said that he wasn’t born in “this” century when it was still the 1900s so he WASN’T implying that the holocaust happened in a century other than the 1900s …. which makes me wonder to this day if his Freudian slip was that he was thinking subconsciously that he was born in the 1800s or the 2000s ….. maybe he was astralprojecting to a past life that actually wasn’t this century and was before the holocaust …. in any event, we had a VP that was clearly emptyheaded about the holocaust.
I tip my cap to you.
I wrote a poem inspired by Molly Bloom’s soliloquy. It was called ‘No.’
The word “sober” attracted me to read today. I am happy for you. Who knows . . . .
Love M