Holiday drinking is an international sport, a holly-jolly right for all. The Christmas lights go up and everyone gets lit, ho ho ho and a bottle of rum. I’ve suited up and worked my elbow every season since my freshman year of college, but for the first time in 26 years, I took myself out of the game until Christmas Eve following the last underwhelming sip of red wine on Halloween night.
Spending the season sober was a calculated decision, one I had been considering for months – for years, really – as I found my relationship with alcohol changing.
Episode 39: Across the Great Divide(s) b/w Glory Days
Episode 38: Bring Us the Head of Craig Brubeck, Who Stole Our Rocco’s Super Bowl Sheet Pizzas
Episode 36: Got a Blank Space Where My Head Like a Hole Should Be – A Portrait of Generation X as Middle-Aged Summer Concert Series Nostalgia Trippers
Episode 35: Mark Lanegan, Daydream Reliever
Episode 34: Boise (Slight Return) Revisited
Episode 33: The New Belle and Sebastian Album Makes Me Feel Old
Episode 32: COVID, a Conference and Our Old Friend the Common Cold
Episode 31: The Subjective Greatness of ’America’s Greatest Hits’
Episode 30: Kerouac In the Lamplight of the Living Room
Episode 29: Take This Waltz
Episode 28: Bright Lights, Dark Winters
Episode 27: Season of the Ditch
Episode 26: Running To Stand Still b/w Reconciling Bono
Episode 25: Kicking Around on a Piece of Ground in Your Hometown
Episode 24: Thanksgiving Sucks, and So Does the Planes, Trains and Automobiles Soundtrack
Episode 23: Gordon Lightfoot and the Golden Autumn World Just Outside My Grasp
Episode 22: Teenage Angst Has Paid Off Well
Episode 21: Inscription Friendships and Farewell Transmissions
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