Dropping My Daily Stool Sample

Plugs
Today we have a new plugs, Christopher Morris has a new serial called KOSMOS, and Part 1 is up.  Also there is a new 8 1/2 by Eleven.

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Superfly - Curtis Mayfield

Update on yesterday’s client
Well unfortunately, the client blew off the rehab I had set up for her, with some lame excuse, so we had to report her to DSS, and now she is being evicted from our program.  Unfortunately, our experience with addicts when they do stuff like this, it is the bottom, we can no longer effectively help them (our program enables them) so we release them to state custody.  Again, it breaks my heart, I really liked this client.

I also have to congratulate my employer for the one year anniversary of St. Anne’s S.R.O.  We took over a large crack house known as “The Mansion” about 2 years ago, in the poorest and highest crime section of New Bedford.  We kicked out the criminal element, put about $500K into the facility to rehab it, and now we have this wonderful 17 client single room occupancy.  Dirt cheap (average rent is $200 a month with utilities, we have a really good crop of clients in the building, and the neighborhood loves us.  NB Police Commander was there along with several city big wigs, and the best thing he said was that now calls at the facility aren’t for overdoses and assaults, only normal stuff.

Dear Malach

• Murky writes: Dear Malach, Yeah, I made the choice to start, but so did Malach. Whycome he isn’t an addict? No one knows.  A big part of it is genetics, another part is personality.  Malach is a type B personality, while Dr. Murk is a type A (but we get along real well still, best friends), while this is just a generic statement, type B’s have less addictive personalities. I come from a family of addicts, some open some not.  I have blood relatives of varying degrees who have had addiction issues with everything from cigarettes to really hardcore drugs (both sides of the family, some have died as a result).  Alcohol at one time was really big in my family, and I can’t deny at one time, that I did not drink quite a bit.  But, of everything I have tried, or imbibed, I have never once felt the physical or mental urge that I had to have that thing.  Now I have never done crack or heroin, and have no plans to ever do it.  I never smoked (Murk still does, both sides of the family had heavy smokers when I was a kid), the one time I tried it I did not like it . . . now don’t get me wrong, I can fake smoke (”I never inhaled”), but I get bored with that really quickly, and haven’t done that in years.  I never even picked up the coffee habit. 

  In college, I drank like I assume your typical college student, to party and get drunk.  I never was a real social drinker; example: go out to the bar, or a resturant and drink, even now, I don’t order alcohol if I go out to eat and never really did.  I college, I would party sometime 4 - 5 nights a week, but I would never just drink in the middle of the day, by myself, or just cause I was legal I only did it among friends.  I have also found I have never needed a substance to be creative, in fact, I find most substances have stifled my creativity. After college, even senior year, I just cut down, lost interest, and over the years, have just about all together stopped. 

  I have told Dr. Murk this:  I can put my mind, imagination, spirit, etc, into a place in my subconcious, that drugs or alcohol never helped me tap into, with only a little concentration.  I do that every night to go to sleep.  I don’t want to say I don’t get addicted, I mean I drink Pepsi almost everyday, and I cruise the internet or play a video game almost everyday, but again, I can go weeks without doing any of those things, and have with no real issue. 

  Now don’t get me wrong, I drink every so often, but it is so rare nowadays, I could probably count on 1 hand the number of times I have drank in the past 3 years. If I do drink, the only reason I would do it nowadays is to get a buzz and only ever at a party.  This is kind of sad to say, I am also pretty sure that if I was home, and someone handed me LSD I would try it, at least one time, but the opportunity has never presented itself. I hope that explains that question at least a little bit without it seeming pretentious.  I mean I am even on the legalizing Marijuana bandwagon, though I don’t think I would partake too often even if it were legal. 

  I supposed I don’t really have a good answer for that.

Vlady!
Good to see you back, now that is some crazy Cold War rhetoric!

Come to Church.
Get Gas.

OK.
Maybe I am addicted to sex, too bad the wife isn’t.

Malach’s Video of the Day

I am Malach and I find it pretty hard to believe DC Comics approved this show.