A Drunkblogging Confessional
Thanks for the links to all the fun State of the Union drinking games, and I even found one you haven’t seen. Thanks, but… I won’t be playing.
I invented (or think I invented) drunkblogging six or seven years ago in protest against political drinking games. Here’s how it happened.
Way back when I still read Andrew Sullivan for something more than point-and-laugh material for VodkaPundit’s Week in Blogs, he was passing around an email he’d found with the original rules for drinking to the State of the Union.
I read them. I chuckled. I realized I’d been watching these damn things since 1980. And that the time for games was over. And that the only way I was going to get through another one, sanity intact, was to start drinking early and keep drinking often. It took a few tries for drunkblogging to evolve into its current, completely unrefined, form — but it works.
In other words, what little sanity I might ever have had, remains intact.
Anyway, I’ll be back here about 15 minutes before showtime tonight, already well into my second martini.
Cheers.
Click here for the live drunkblogging.
Thanks, Stephen. I’ll be watching the Washington Capitals game tonight. Ovechkin’s much more fun to watch than President Dumbass. I look forward to your delightfully drunken and totally sane review of SOU. There’s not enough vodka in the county to get me through an Obama event. Thanks for going into the fray for me!
My big dilemma for the evening: tonic water or cranberry juice to go with the Skyy.
I’ve got my weapons of choice ready (the New Glarus sampler pack), and I’m already on my first Fat Squirrel.
Thanks for showing how drunkblogging is done.
Already into my second glass of Merlot. Gonna start my own game (I think). Prediction of legacy media spin on reaction to the President’s speach…..after carefully surveying a random sample of viewers (SEIU members, UAW members, NEA members etc). The media announces; “America discovers why it fell in love with Obama in the first place!”….what too cynical?
“To those who say ‘it’s time to drink’, I will fight for you as long as I have breath!”
Stephen, working on some Hendricks (again: the gin, not the actress, alas) and glad you are still hard at work too.
DD
I went with tonic water.
Hmm, Doc. Hendricks and DD showing up in the same post? What are the odds?
Steve-
You DID invent drunk-blogging of political speeches. Don’t let anyone else say you didn’t.
A long-time fan,
John B
My drinking game has but one rule: Every time Obama gives a SOTU, get drunk.
PT OBarnum….fooling the people again. This is like watching three card monty
I didn’t watch either but I’ve heard plenty. I can’t imagine alcohol would be more disorienting than the irony overload from watching the most powerful man in the free world spend his entire first State of the Union speech to complain about The Man keeping him down.