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why I can't stop drinking

This blog used to be called "Why I Can't Stop Smoking." Well, I did stop smoking. Now I need to stop drinking. The only thing is, every day there seems to be a reason why I can't just yet. It worked before, so—here goes! Today's reason

12.11.2011

holidays

Posted by Claudia at 1:49 PM 2 comments:

12.04.2011

baby in bar

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11.28.2011

hellos and goodbyes

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11.19.2011

boola boola

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Police say someone driving a U-Haul truck into a tailgating area at the Yale-Harvard game accelerated into three women, killing one and injuring the other two. Police spokesman David Hartman says the truck entered a parking lot designated for pre-game tailgating, sped up for unknown reasons and hit the women. The truck then crashed into other U-Haul vans in the lot. He said a 30-year-old woman was taken to Yale-New Haven hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Another woman was seriously hurt, but was in stable condition. The third woman suffered minor injuries.  Police were questioning the driver of the U-Haul.

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11.13.2011

everybody's doing it

In the mouths of babes. . .
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11.11.2011

pork futures

LAFAYETTE, Minn. — Here in pig country, the pigs are vanishing. Ryan Bode, whose family has raised pigs for decades, said thieves broke into this barn in Lafayette, Minn., by cutting straight down some ventilation netting. This month, 150 pigs — each one weighing more than an average grown man — disappeared from a farm building in Lafayette despite deadbolts on its doors. Farther north  594 snorting, squealing hogs disappeared last month, whisked away in the dark. And in Iowa, with cover from the vast stretches of tall cornfields, pigs have been snatched, 20 or 30 at a time, from as many as eight facilities, said the sheriff, adding that among other challenges, the missing are difficult to single out.
“They all look alike."
  “This is the hot commodity of the moment, like copper a few years ago and gold,” said Ryan Bode, whose family discovered that 150 of its pigs were missing shortly before they were to be taken to market. The loss was $30,000 on top of the “ungodly high” price of corn that he had paid to feed those pigs until they were fat enough to be sold. “And after all that, they’re not here,” he said. Mr. Bode seemed doubtful about seeing his pigs again.
“My guess is that they’re bacon and pork chops already,” he said.

This little piggie went to market.  I'll take an oink on the rocks with a twist of tail.
Posted by Claudia at 8:45 AM No comments:

11.08.2011

Don't drink and make your kid drive?

WOODHAVEN, Mich. (AP) — A 9-year-old Michigan girl is in tears as she testifies about the night her dad had her drive a full-size van in suburban Detroit. Authorities say Shawn Weimer had his daughter drive because he had been drinking. He is charged with child abuse, and a judge is holding a hearing to determine if Weimer will go to trial. Police in Wayne County's Brownstown Township stopped the van in the wee hours of Oct. 8 and found the girl behind the wheel in a booster seat. The girl says she agreed to drive but "felt a little scared." She testified her dad drank half of a bottle of whiskey.

The judge called a recess as she kept crying.
Posted by Claudia at 4:31 PM 1 comment:

nyny

The Apartment of No Regrets.
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10.31.2011

witches' new year's

Chew the bones and suck the marrow.
Thin the veil between the spheres.
Drink the blood and fuck tomorrow.
Make a vow to last for years.
Posted by Claudia at 5:36 PM 1 comment:

10.30.2011

dark and stormy

Need warmth here on Bleak Island. Line 'em up, baby!
Posted by Claudia at 11:56 AM 2 comments:

10.28.2011

real estate

. . . need I say more?
Posted by Claudia at 11:41 PM No comments:

10.27.2011

month two

A full day with the ex including two ferry rides, a 75-mile shopping trip and a storm window attaining liftoff in a howling gale.
Posted by Claudia at 7:57 PM 1 comment:

10.23.2011

crossing the bar

Why I can't stop: Eating at the bar in the Beachhead. . .
Posted by Claudia at 5:11 PM 2 comments:

10.19.2011

thus spoke Michael Lutin

wednesday 19 OCTOBER

Why do people eat, drink smoke, screw
ordo anything compulsively?
Because they are hungry.
When you locate the original source
of your hunger,
you're not so hungry any more.
It's easier to get in touch with it
when the Moon is in Cancer
and the Sun in Libra
as it is now.
You'll find comfort in comfort food
preparing it,
eating it
or serving it to loved ones.
It's a form of connection
an inescapable one
in the search for
intimacy.
Intimacy is not,
contrary to popular belief,
the need to reveal every part of yourself
to another person.
it is about sharing
on a soul level.
And when that is denied you,
you eat yourself silly.
Or
some people just starve themselves
to repeat the process of
emotional starvation.
The effort it takes to remain balanced
is worth it.
Posted by Claudia at 7:38 AM 3 comments:

10.18.2011

week four

I'd like to howl at the waning gibbous (meaning: humpbacked, convex) moon. But alas, a nice diet coke don't make me want to howl.
Posted by Claudia at 7:51 AM 1 comment:

10.16.2011

soda

Or, as I call it, pop.
Others in this great nation of ours do so as well, as you can see at popvssoda.
Posted by Claudia at 8:11 PM 4 comments:

10.14.2011

it's in the stars

Saturn in Libra. . .
Posted by Claudia at 11:19 AM 2 comments:

10.11.2011

full moon

. . . and dinner at the Manisses with Ballard and Leili.
Week three.
Posted by Claudia at 8:02 AM 3 comments:

10.07.2011

holiday weekend!

Finished the story! Partay!
Posted by Claudia at 3:13 PM 2 comments:

10.04.2011

week two

Ah. Nothing like a fire in the fireplace, some mellow music on the iPod and a nice glass of—water?
Posted by Claudia at 8:37 AM 2 comments:
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