ON REHAB

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex." Aldous Huxley

aloha again.

LiLo vs.Zeke
Lindsey Lohan & Brittany get all the ink but there is also grassroots collateral damage.i don't know what triggered this,maybe seeing DR.DREW PINSKY talk about his Celebrity Rehab TV show,maybe not...he said Rehab is not a band aid, it takes some people five or more times to quell the demons that drive them.
it was the 80s,i forget where i met him,Zeke a tall blond guy already balding in his mid twenties.crack had laid him low but he had plans for coming back strong...he slept at my place a few days and when he left stole some of my clean socks, i don't begrduge him for that but he left behind his own malodorous stiff with stink and dirt ones which i trashed. later i went to a talent show he'd arranged at a hotel full of bike messengers,which he had become,where nobody of either sex seemed to believe in deoderant.he displayed a very modest talent on blues steel guitar.less than a year later i was clipping out his obit from the SF Chronicle and pasting it in my journals.

she was an ordinary girl,lets call her Cindy,nothing special and a bit dim but an adequate cocktail waitress.now in the 15 years i worked in swank hotels and Moscone Center the Hospitality Industry was awash in sex,drink and drugs (mostly coke & crack).i heard about her too late,belatedly i heard reports of her wandering around naked in front of appreciative pinoy janitors.like Zeke crack had cost her everything except the clothes on her back,soon she was sleeping around just to get a bed for the night,then she got fired and became a homeless crack whore...i never saw an obit.maybe she got clean and went home??? anything is possible,right?

Secty. Hillary has admiitted that Amercian Addictions fuel the cartels narco wars and the near collapse of Mexico. Nixon had a drug report done in the 70s which said the War on Drugs concept was the LEAST EFFECTIVE (but most flashy & racist?) REHAB WAS THE BEST ANSWER TO DRUGS. guess which path Nixon chose? the so called DRUG CZAR does what exactly? drugs are cheaper and stronger than ever and the cartels richer.recently BBC News showed some druglord arrested in Mexcio with $220 MILLION in cash,concealed in a secret room. an estimated ONE BILLION A MONTH changes hands over drugs,Christ!

where was i going with this?
my friend G Man got off booze & dope and is still clean. my son Z Man got his AA one year chip before his accident,i am SO PROUD OF HIM.sniff sniff.

in the 70s i ran with a wet crowd, i tried to match them drink for drink. i was a fool. i blacked out twice that i know of. once in Sausalito where i was drinking with my German friend Peter, he wanted to drive my car home but i insisted. i remember getting him into the car and climbing behind the wheel,next thing i know i'm on Page Street in my own driveway.toll plaza? dead pedestrians? what in Hell? scared the crap outta me! a few years later, a less wet crowd, i was driving two gays from Divis to Polk somewhere down Geary, i lost about two miles, i looked around to see them both chatting calmly in the back seat. i turned in the cab ASAP and didn't drink again for six years.

NADA not a drop.
i am a less than moderate drinker today, sake and the rare beer. alcoholism doesn't run in my family, it sits and squats like a festering ogre in the middle of the road.it killed my dad and its dire results almost killed my oldest son. i credit martial arts discipline with saving my life.i have seen and done things in martial arts which even now i find hard to believe,most of what is taught is not written down...some things can change your life for the better,healthy addictions if you will. do i miss LSD & heavy boozing? i have the Elmer Gantry (GREAT MOVIE) quote somewhere about 'when i became a man, i put away childish things'.Amen.

in other news,
the Senile reports that Social Security will be frozen the next 3-4 years due to the Recession/Wall Street Meltdown.where's my Bailout?
the rich get richer & the poor get screwed, thus is life (casino capitalism).

namaste
semper gumby
mega