drinking
Flotsam & Jetsam
How Not To Advertise An Alcoholic Beverage
8:41AM Hamilton Nolan | Bad enough the lady is drinking and driving with only one hand because she’s holding a (hallucinated?) dragon in the other hand. Also, her eyes are closed. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Are Booze Ads Making You A Drunk?
12:42AM Hamilton Nolan | Whoa: The British Medical Association is urging a complete ban on alcohol advertising and sponsorships in England, home to many drunks. But the media needs that money! Who’s more disingenuous here — ad agencies, media companies, or doctors? It’s close! More »
Print
Everybody At The New York Times Used To Be So Wasted Every Day
1:00AM Hamilton Nolan | “Those rewrite men — some of them were so drunk!” So begins Gay Talese’s entertaining reminiscence on just how drunk the New York Times was, in his day. Mad Men? “Hell. The drinking that went on in journalism was beyond that.” More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
University Kids Maintaining, Bro
5:22AM Hamilton Nolan | The Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs—the most popular journal—found that the binge-drinking and unprotected sex habits of students at America’s drunkest colleges has barely changed since the early ’90s. So what’s the problem, right? High-five. [JSAD]
Flotsam & Jetsam
Nine Out Of Ten Drunks Deny Driving
1:20AM Hamilton Nolan | How many of you are “binge drinkers,” meaning you had five drinks in a night once last month? (All you drunks raise your hands). Now, how many of you drove after getting wasted? (Pause). Liars! Science knows. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Scientist Thinks He’s Better Than You Cause You Drink, Is That It?
2:11AM Hamilton Nolan | Wet-brained scientists have discovered that long-term alcoholics may misread the emotional cues that people project with their facial expression. And how! More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Smart Media People Moonlight In Booze
4:18AM Hamilton Nolan | We’ll give you one guess: Which is the heaviest-drinking class of “professionals” in England? If you said “the media,” you are well acquainted with the media’s habits! In fact, we hear that some media workers here are going into the booze business as a dependable second job: More »
9:25AM Defamer Hollywood | The New York Post is reporting that The Animal may have been sippin’ on a few Purple Monsters — a nastariffic homemade concoction of Red Bull, vodka and NyQuil — before she got carted off to Cedars-Sinai last week after refusing to turn the kids over to K-Fed’s handlers. This explains a lot. `Cause there have been more than a few times that we’ve hit The Tuss and The `Quil a little too hard. Trust us, it turns everything into the scene in Knocked Up where Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd go to Cirque Du Soleil high on ’shrooms. Not fun. More »
