Oh Shit! You're going to do Inky Thinky too?!!!

Reader beware: I've been drinking since 4:30 pm. First a scandalous gin & tonic at the Hotel Healdsburg where we almost got the bartender fired. (Ellen, can I just say again for the record that it's even more scandalous that we couldn't get a cocktail before 4:30 anywhere in Healdsburg. In Santa Fe I could get a drink anywhere in town after 10am. Toto, I'm not in Santa Fe anymore, nor Manhattan, where a drink anywhere has no time limit. And thanks Alan for sharing your oh so very deserved promotional champagne with us. OK back to purpose.)


The headline above (posted before midnight) is telling of the small global (totaling some 10 friends) response to this fast/cleanse. Some want to follow suit (or at least say they might) and others think it's hideously insane to give up a number of substances. Including Timothy's brother Ted, who flipped this response to me after committing to no cigarettes in 2008, "I'm off to get a fucking pastry and coffee." I would too if I lived near the Healdsburg Downtown Bakery. And may his and DeeDee's lungs heal in 2008 (words only from an ex-smoker!).


Thanks to all compatriots that are joining me on the journey: Ellen, D, and, Anne are on the wagon with me. D gets extra credit for giving up the juice years ago (and for giving an elegant call for why stevia isn't sugar...right....and why sex is sugar...okay, i get that.)


"I'm sure some government agency is scanning your blog," says Timothy, sober from the other side of the table.Growing up in the Bomb City I'm used to government surveillance. Fuck them and their fucking bullshit (I get until midnight with the trashy mouth). Don't get me started about the trench coats, the sneaking around our streets of Lost Almost and the Manhattan Project.


It's 10:45 and I've got more wine to drink so enjoy your new years and we'll talk about the bomb city later.


Most of all, may you all be blessed with a wonderful new year, a 2008 life filled with joyous surprises, expansion beyond your belief and love so supreme it melts all those edges. And may my withdrawal not create a monster!