September 28, 2002
we've all been there, haven't we?

Thanks to Jameel for bringing this to my attention. I can only hope Tim's housewarming (that I regretfully cannot attend) leaves him this way.

The finest description of a hangover in English literature is accredited
to Kingsley Amis' wonderful campus novel Lucky Jim:

"He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider-crab
on the tarry shingle of the morning. The light did him harm, but not so
much as looking at things did: he resolved, having done it once, never to
move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene
before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by
some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the
night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been
expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad."

Posted by warcode at September 28, 2002 06:22 PM
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my favorite part of the whole experience is that first glass of water you drink, the one that makes the dried alcohol inside your digestive system liquid again, and causes a fresh layer of semi-dissolved stomach fibers to slough off and make their way down to your bowels, where the resulting mess sends one last charge of wanna-puke up to your brain in the form of a hairy, three-foot fishhook from which you dangle, confused and alone, wondering where the fuck your pants went.

Posted by: michal on September 30, 2002 11:44 AM
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