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A Drunkblogging Confessional

January 27, 2010 - 4:07 pm - by Stephen Green

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.

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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.

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12 Comments, 12 Threads, 4 Trackbacks

  1. 1. Brad

    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!

    January 27, 2010 - 4:23 pm   Link to this Comment
  2. 2. rbj

    My big dilemma for the evening: tonic water or cranberry juice to go with the Skyy.

    January 27, 2010 - 7:05 pm   Link to this Comment
  3. 3. steveegg

    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.

    January 27, 2010 - 7:06 pm   Link to this Comment
  4. 4. Jimmy

    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?

    January 27, 2010 - 7:15 pm   Link to this Comment
  5. 5. EA

    “To those who say ‘it’s time to drink’, I will fight for you as long as I have breath!”

    January 27, 2010 - 7:27 pm   Link to this Comment
  6. 6. Doc Disgruntled

    Stephen, working on some Hendricks (again: the gin, not the actress, alas) and glad you are still hard at work too.
    DD

    January 27, 2010 - 7:34 pm   Link to this Comment
  7. 7. rbj

    I went with tonic water.

    January 27, 2010 - 7:36 pm   Link to this Comment
  8. 8. rbj

    Hmm, Doc. Hendricks and DD showing up in the same post? What are the odds?

    January 27, 2010 - 7:41 pm   Link to this Comment
  9. 9. JohnB

    Steve-

    You DID invent drunk-blogging of political speeches. Don’t let anyone else say you didn’t.

    A long-time fan,
    John B

    January 27, 2010 - 7:56 pm   Link to this Comment
  10. 10. equitus

    My drinking game has but one rule: Every time Obama gives a SOTU, get drunk.

    January 27, 2010 - 8:01 pm   Link to this Comment
  11. 11. Paul Revere

    PT OBarnum….fooling the people again. This is like watching three card monty

    January 27, 2010 - 8:29 pm   Link to this Comment
  12. 12. McGehee

    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.

    January 28, 2010 - 12:30 pm   Link to this Comment