QOTD

by Mark Thompson

“There is a Laffer curve for drinking and writing.” – E.D. Kain, via e-mail.

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4 comments

1 Jaybird { 11.20.09 at 9:58 am }

It is only the conservatives who say we are to the right of the peak.

2 E.D. Kain { 11.20.09 at 10:20 am }

Haha. I’ll drink to that, Mark!

3 Nathan P. Origer { 11.20.09 at 9:12 pm }

I’m drinking to this right now.

I seem, as is all too often the case, not to be writing.

Perhaps I’m too far too the right?

4 Sam M { 11.21.09 at 6:49 am }

On the other hand, there is an eternally positive correlation between drinking and reading stuff by writers who drink.

(Glug.) Hemingway managed! (Glug glug.) I love Hunter S. Thompson! (Glug glug glug.) Man, this Pete Hamill is amazing. (Glug glug glug glug.) But if I don’t drink, am I not betraying my appreciation for Bukowski?

This is usually around the time you realize someone your age, invariably someone sober, is already a staff writer for the New Yorker.

How do you react to that? I recommend sticking to brown liquor. The clear stuff lacks panache.