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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Refreshing in-your-face honesty is so 2002. Y'ever notice that the people who really excel at refreshing in-your-face honesty are recovering alcoholics and drug addicts? Lying and getting away with it; now that takes discipline. For example, non-recovering alcoholics and drug addicts.
As for who's hot and who's not in D.C., who cares? The entire town is populated with the "winners" of Patch popularity contests, and look where that gets us.
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Speaking of recovering alcoholics, I recently finished reading "Dry" by Augusten Burroughs, and it's one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's hilarious and (this sounds so cliché) profound. I found it very moving. The story (really, the setting, I suppose) is about his struggle with alcohol addiction and his recovery, but at its core, it's really a love story that's evocative, tender, and ultimately, heartrending.
It really affected me. I think probably this book (or at least the author) has been mentioned here before (his "Running with Scissors" was amazing -- but in a different way), so I'm not saying I invented this, but, I invented this.
