DryAmemoirByLUSHAugustenBurroughs

 

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Introduction/Definition/etc

 

OK, so PBWorks.com page names don't do periods,

Dry.Amemoir.ByLUSHAugustenBurroughs.

is what is should have been.  Other things it doesn't do,

is Question Marks, like PatrickAsSaint?

and other stuffs...

 

But it's free, not Love, but a service.

 

Anyways, Dry, is a book about Augusten's

Detox and live without his fav Dewar's,

and Foster, and Pighead, and stuff,

like AA, and other non traditional things

like anonymity, how ever that is spelled...

 

 

And it's SPOLING, but that got boring,

so LUST substituted like an email

spam filtering process...

 

 

Body

 

I'd bought it with the other books last holiday/

winter season, and not gotten around to reading it,

and it's now Raining in DC, so Dry, was appropriate

a day or so ago, but not so much anymore...

 

See other book non reviews like,

YouBetterNotCryBySPOILEDAugustenBurroughs

and his bro

lookmeintheeyemylifewithaspergersByJohnElderRobison

and you will see I've read a little of what is published

by the family...

Not looked up the Dad, a prof, or former prof,

at UMass, and only met one of them briefly, but

he's funny, a flaming gay, an ad writer, gone freelance,

entertaining in a tear them a new one sort of verbal

pit bull way, but I cried, I laughed, OK, I didn't laugh,

I very rarely laugh, but I got tired of the drunkalogue,

even a witty pit bull writer couldn't make interesting,

and I'm not into the trashy gay stuff, because I'm not gay,

so it was a bit voyeur on that part, and the really racy

stuff wasn't really in the book, he skips to next paragraph,

or section, instead of intimate sexual details,

but the romance, lusting after people, in detox,

a gay one called Proud, or his group member,

and breaks the rules...

 

Some of the rules, what is said here, stays here,

Here!, Here!

And that piece of paper he writes about signing

on Group, aftercare from Detox, 30 day spin dry,

as some would call it...

It's not really 30 days much anymore, the book was

copyright 2003, and the Twin Towers were still up,

in NYC, so it's a little old, even by the time I actually

read it in 2011, almost 2012.

 

But it gives some things about recovery.

It doesn't do 12 Step very well.  He's better than that,

or so he seems to think.

And his Nazi ad client, and Those Fucking Eggs,

Faberge (I have to look up how to spell it and don't get

the funny characters e with some agu or grave over top

or something like that, in the "Those Fucking Eggs"

chapter number 2 or so, if it had a Table Of Contents,

much less an index... Oh, to get an iPad2 or something

where I can buy the book in electronic form and do some

textual analysis on it, geek out...

 

Anyways x2 or more, Sellevision, another book by Augusten,

is probably more Ad CopyWriter stuff, or the section at

the end, Magical Thinking, chapter called Commercial Break,

describing a van of Ad people coming to his schoolhouse

to shoot a TV Ad for Tang. Such a murderous little boy,

talking/ writing of such harm to others...

 

Didn't your mother ever tell you, not to say stuff

that isn't nice?  If you have nothing nice to say, say

nothing at all...

 

If looks could kill, he would have killed Rick,

a Mormon in the Ad Agency, sycophant to Ellen

the boss.  Names have probably been changed,

to protect the non innocent, or libel or slander,

or something...

 

But it reads like an ad for NYC life, Sex In The City,

we go to this bar, we drink this liquor, we buy these

products, the product placement, is wonderful,

if only I could get a directory and store map of

NYC, to check which ones are real, and which

are hallucinations (later described in the book,

something like Snakes On The Plane, but

more squalor (a word that I need to learn and

apply to my life...)  And I think of the Ugly

Betty TV show, when I had a TV working

and some signal coming in...

 

I'm not anti gay, certainly not a basher,

not on people anyway, certainly not physically

like his dad, put a cigarette or cigar out on his

face, describing how he learned that in a doctor's

office, flashbacks to trauma, sodomy and other

stuff...  Not sure how much is real, I'm guessing

a lot, more than people would believe all wrapped

up in a nice package, funny, dark, tragic,

pathetic, inspiring, boring, trashy, etc...

 

But I'm not witty today, sorry boys and girls,

I'm not Greer, the Creative Team woman he bounces

off dialog with, and who pushes him into Detox

in an office Intervention...  Enter the Intervention

show on some cable channel...  But using words,

which escape him when he needs them most,

like when giving speeches...  On Anniversaries,

or lusting after some guy...  Speechless.

 

So the undertaker, his best friend/ drinking buddy,

a straight man, we are led to believe, except that

one time they woke up together naked and decided

not to talk about it...  But then there is the ex lover

PigHead, dying of AIDS.  Local color, Think Philadelphia,

the Movie...

 

I could see some of the Detox training I had,

but you really have to be one to do that type of work,

It Just Pisses Me Off, and apparently I'm not very

good at it either, by comparison to someone who is one.

I had no problem telling court ordered people to talk to

a real one, as they seemed to be abusing me anyway,

and violate one or more out...  Not really my decision,

and I can be an SOB at times, if necessary...

 

Come to think of it, the ridicule has become obscene...

Gang of people blocking the door, Can't read the No

Loitering Sign.  Probably can't read this either...

Or don't know it exists.

 

Where is that Hate Jerry website?

Send me email, let's see if you have what it takes

to make a faux YES!VirginPeers...

like the spoofs on Wikipedia that are out there

too...

 

But Wikipedia, like most writing, is factually,

this is all opinion, because opinions don't count

depending upon who you are...

 

Watched PBS's Freedom Riders (free video,

if you have a computer, and internet that will

handle it, read not at a public library, as a

1.55 minute show, or whatever it is,

doesn't fit well in 15 minute, check your email

type reservation systems on shared machines...

And a lot of libraries' hours are diminishing,

jobs are changing, people moving, or whatever,

that time of year, be thankful, you have a roof

over your head, be grateful...

You have food to eat, be grateful...

 

Oh, and do some recovery pushups while you are at it...

Do a gratitude list...

 

Because it's raining outside, and you have a place

to be, something to write about, something to write

on and a connection to the rest of the uninterested

world to do it on...  Not to mention a hosting service

that hasn't complained about what drivel you write,

and have done hundreds, maybe 400+ pages

like this, rambling, wandering, somewhat offensive,

but not really...  Just exploring the corners of this

depressed mind...

 

You are in enemy territory when you are in your mind,

alone...  A Slogan of sorts.

 

Only go with a highly paid professional tour guide,

do a Zoo Exhibit, but don't tell the neighbors

because they can't instantiate stuffed animals

on a weird person, nor wear underwear outside

your clothes like Patch would suggest, because

only doctors get away with that, others probably

get arrested, or forced Meds, or worse...

 

Dark, wet ,day... No Fun For You, the Soup

Nazi like Pharmacy cashier tells the sick

person, as the person who could not stand up,

the other day, is forced to wait in line, and

well CVS can kiss my ass...  Here is your

survey form. No Privacy, Nasty Cashier,

not all, but that one, and the names don't

even change on the who's on duty board,

so that's some life in the slums.  I don't accept

it from hospital directors, or doctors why

would I from a Pharmacists, or a cashier,

getting maybe $20/ hour, to be nasty to

sick people...

 

Anyway x3+, Relapse Prevention is a

constant thing, and if you don't you Fall,

as the later chapters say, and demonstrate,

good writers show, I guess, don't just tell...

Or some such...

 

ETOH seems to add to his skills,

MH Pharm/ Pharma kills short term memory,

and makes one blithering idiot, and

then people make fun of you for daily

living activities, and then well, whatever,

nobody cares because you aren't famous.

A writer, or a posterboy for something,

Ads, Money, Fame, Fortune, or Sex,

so whatever...

 

Rant/ off...

 

 

 

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Summary of experience or similar

 

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