Friday, July 30, 2010

Don't drink and write!

This news flash from the NY Times here.

7 comments:

  1. Desiree, you would be proud of me. I made carne en su jugo tonight with martini melon salad.

    My stumbling block: The recipe called for canned tomatillos (my frigging plant is huge and covered with flowers but has produced all of ONE tomatillo - sigh!) and I couldn't find them in the supermarket. I settled for green salsa where the first ingredient was tomatillo and I hope it comes out okay.

    But canned chiles, canned jalapenos, canned chipotles, nopales, all mocked me as I looked for canned tomatillos and came up empty. Have you used them?

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  2. Ooooh, I like the sound of a martini melon salad!
    Sounds like you were felled by a poorly written recipe--unless they mean tomatillo or green sauce, I'm with you--never seen 'em.

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  3. I'm with him on the Gibson, and I'm not so big on olives either. Give me something girly and sweet.

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  4. Drink and write? I can't imagine. I can barely drink and sit.

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  5. Kingsley Amis always struck me as singularly unfunny and obvious, while his son Martin has written some of the most sophisticated, humorous essays in english lit.

    I was just talking about the writing/drinking thing w/someone else this week, and we agreed that certain authors would not have accomplished some of their greatest work without the chemical reaction brought on by alcohol.

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  6. Here I thought, for the millionth time, that I really should read Lucky Jim. Now I get to pass!
    Anthony Burgess apparently rewarded his daily writing with martinis immediately afterwards. Man, do I envy the stamina.
    P: I remember reading somewhere the more creative you are the worse alcohol is for your creativity. But then again, that might have been written by a teetoler
    M: Mai Tais. Sweet and lethal. The embodiment of girly.

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  7. It's understandable & appropriate that you put out this message in this area.

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