sweet effay

Christmas on acid?
Seems very difficult to dissociate Christmas from 'hangover'....I'm putting in the preliminary groundwork on mine at the moment. It's the comedy drinks that get me.....how much sparkling wine, Baileys and advocaat does anyone drink the rest of the year?

I hope you have a Merry Christmas over there........!!!

Oh effay, we do miss you in London (ok, let's not start another gloopy, soppy thread about how our lives are empty husks without your drunkeness/presence/presents......). Hope you got your parcel from me by the way....!

I'm desperately trying not to drink too much this year. Not only do I have to give a paper in Belgrade on the 29th (not exactly written yet), but my Ma and Pa always try and ask me the most excruciatingly personal questions when they think I'm drunk, in the hope that I'll give something about my dark and devious life away. Ha! They can try, they can try....

Cheers guys!

Psychbloke, interesting that you should mention Baileys as a comedy drink: My wife has the same sort of relationship to it as I do to martinis...

John, like yourself, I also have a keen interest in gin... I'd never seriously considered a Gin-Martini...but it's starting to sound kinda M.A.S.H.
(or should that be M.A.S.H.'d?) to me right now. I like where you're coming from with this...time to experiment, I reckon...maybe I should set up a pup-tent in the garden and a tape playing incoming chopper noises for that extra visceral thrill of imminent surgery...

Have a great xmas...!

John, getting back to your confusion about Mark Fisher's (sorry: K-Punk's) total incoherence as expressed on your last post, have you witnessed the latest offering? Even by Mark's standards it's an utterly perplexing mixture of holiday diary reporting, personal confessions and gratuitous psychobiography (along the lines of: thanks to "the Net based kollective machine [read: my new blog friends]" for providing a therapeutic environment within which I could work through my psychological problems and rebuild my self-esteem over the past year") followed by the typical cant about how the radically impersonal "Cold Rational" forces responsible for writing his blog dismiss "(uninteresting) fictions such a biography and personality" and that those who criticize him for his patent incoherence on this score have simply not reached his (sorry: *its*) level of austerely structural and impersonal rationality and need to reread Saussure ... hmmm. It's clearly utterly futile attempting to criticize such hopelessly self-refuting nonsense (i..e by pointing out that that is just what it is) because he clearly thinks that the very fact that people are doing so already somehow provides an absolute vindication of everything he says (I quote: "The hostility and the derision that the Cold Rationalist dismissal of (uninteresting) fictions such as biography and personality still meets is ample evidence that ... structural and systemic thought remain radically unassimilable"). It's kind of worrying that someone who clearly has a great deal of trouble respecting even the most elementary standards of rational consistency should think of himself as offering a model of rational and systematic thought, but then I guess such is the nature of paranoid delusion. To be fair, at least he sticks to what he's best (and most consistent) at for the most part: i. e. his Smash Hits-style review of manufactured teeny-bopper pop (though the comment about Jamelia being a 'Nietzschean' is a *little* much to stomach). Not a whiff about the recent events in South Asia, but then I guess that's just not 'interesting' because it doesn't involve his own heroic personal trials with depression and can't very well be blamed on 'Kapitalism'. Pitiful, really.