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Sharon - 2008-05-14 15:08:05
Paula, that Churchill book sounds totally juicy. It's next on my list. I'm very intrigued I think by badasses with the souls of poets, or is that poets with the souls of badasses?/// Churchill is such a fascinating character. Kind of like a British Zelig all over the Empire at critical moments--South Africa, Afghanistan....But could there really be any doubt that he was a boozehound? There are interesting accounts of his crazy imbibing when he stayed at FDR's White House to drum up support for the war.....
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Paula - 2008-05-14 15:17:38
But could there really be any doubt that he was a boozehound?
Rubin makes a case for the booze thing being a part of his self-created mythos, and provides some testimony that he'd nurse a weak glass of whiskey for hours--especially when the cameras were around. He was very into protecting his image as a boozer. Maybe so people would underestimate him? (Just one more way that he resembles Columbo....)
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MacGregor - 2008-05-14 15:42:21
We have but one thing to drink and that's drink itself!
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Sharon - 2008-05-14 23:48:27
Those Brits. "Heaven forfend that someone should think I don't tipple." What is really irksome is another brainy Brit like Christopher Hitchens who is often drunk, but who can nevertheless wax poetic on Homer's Iliad at the drop of a hat, praise Marx's 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte eloquently, or appear as a guest of the Vatican as "the Devil's Advocate" to make a sound case against Mother Teresa's beatification. cheers.
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Bob - 2008-05-15 00:57:52
He even made possible a Roxy Music "medley", "The Bob".
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Bina - 2008-05-15 01:05:05
If by some cosmic law you could only drink one type of alcoholic drink for the rest of your life, which would you choose, and why?
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Paula - 2008-05-15 04:05:39
Bina, for the past year I have been living out that experiment by drinking (with a few exceptions) only red wine. It's the only alcoholic beverage that I enjoy the taste of, and it's self-limiting--if I have more than 2.5 glasses, I feel instantly hungover. How 'bout you?
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Bina - 2008-05-15 07:08:46
Muslim here, so non-drinker. PS do you read German?
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MacGregor - 2008-05-15 09:13:33
My answer is vodka, because it mixes with pretty much anything... I dont know if that counts because the permutations are endless, but there ya go.
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Paula - 2008-05-15 10:21:46
Bina: I thought that was the case! I'm emailing you re: German.
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