Kyle, my advice is to not listen to bitter, patronizing cunts who think that it is rad to have alcoholism, and live your life the way you see fit rather than as their long-distance enabler. If that means you tip a bottle now and then, please enjoy, but remember that that drinking when you are already down will likely only pour more sorrow into your cup.

 Si probably gave the best advice: Do something productive that will make you feel good, then get wrecked, socially.

Blah blah get the stick out of your ass blah. I didn't say anything different than you did, just that it's ok to have a drink once in a while. Just because you had one too many one night in your life and fucked yourself permanently doesn't give you the right to judge.

I said that moping around his fucking apartment getting drunk wasn't going to do him any good, and that he should get outside and move around.

You responded with insults and advice that was pretty easily construed as telling to him to go ahead and try to drink his depression away.

I would call that fairly fucking different advice. Apparently so would those who proceeded to echo my suggestion in one way or another.


 As for, "Just because you had one too many one night in your life and fucked yourself permanently... blah blah blah," you've pretty clearly shown your willingness to bloviate misguidedly about matters you don't really know much more than a sparrow's fart about, to the few people around here who actually do know what happened.

 That being, of course, that I severely sprained an ankle doing something reckless and silly. That being, that I probably would have done it anyway, stone sober, because as those who know me will testify; I hold my liquor and maintain control even on the most ridiculous nights to an extremely unusual degree. That being, that injury which DID cause me permanent problems happened a year later, and had absolutely nothing to do with booze. That being, that even if it had, anyone who has drank with me knows I do not engage in lame-ass "I was drunk" blame-shifting for anything I say or do while intoxicated.

I know how you feel, Kyle. I've been alone for a long time now (on purpose) and its the best thing I've ever done for myself. Seriously.

im usually alone, and drunk, playing wolfenstein on my ps3 online, or posting absolute bullshit nonsense in places like this.....

that summarizes every night of my life for the last 3 months.

sometimes im depressed, but usually i'm content....i have low standards. cheers!

I am feeling very anti-social today. Sometimes I wish I were on the moon. Solitary, and alone. Anyway, I told my little sexpot that I am not feeling up to spending time together tonight. I have an ambitious evening planned. Grab dinner at Taco Cabana in a few minutes, then drink my sixer of Amstel Light I got earlier, then proceed to drink some of my Plymouth Gin mixed with juice, and get as drunk as possible, sit in my boxers and play video games all night on my Xbox. I haven't played the thing in two years. Why not get drunk and play, right?

Ugh. I just get depressed sometimes and don't want to be near any people.

Some people are more comfortable solitary.  I know I'm more comfortable spending a lot of time alone.  I don't think it's depression so much as being strongly introverted.

For me, it's not so much being depressed as feeling stressed out when I don't have enough time alone.  If I get wrapped up in social events for too many days in a row on top of being at work, I'll have to take a day to disconnect from everything.  Drinking alone and playing video games isn't a particularly healthy way to do it (though I've been known to do that too) and suggestions to go do something like hike or bike are probably better.  

More importantly, though, you need to figure out how to carve out some more alone time in your day to day life to try to avoid landing yourself in anti-social funks.  

I had a laptop that I'd been meaning to repair for like a year... It was always something I was going to get around to one day. Then, I realized that I was never gong to fix it, and to make sure I understood that fact I decided to hit it with a hammer. A lot.

It was very satisfying.

I'm going back with a hammer later.  I dropped a dumbbell I on it for a while earlier:

This reminds me of the old gi joes Id lay in the street and pick up after a days worth of cars crushed them, then put them back together in odd ways (arm stumps for heads, ect)

More importantly, though, you need to figure out how to carve out some more alone time in your day to day life to try to avoid landing yourself in anti-social funks.  

Next, you'll be recommending he stay away from loaded guns.

 CT: Under-paintings, like so much in life, are tedious but necessary.

I like your work

I have no art in me.

wow, that's great. You should try and sell some. Just don't snarl at any old people in the galleries

 That's just an underpainting, the crap you lay everything out with before doing the real painting. I've just started again for the first time in years, and aside from lack of practice, I have a rather glaring physical disadvantage in that the muscles of my arms and shoulders are a little haywire from years of violent over-training in plyometrics. I can only really work fine details on something small, like a pocket sketchbook, where I work with my elbow/forearm set against something.

 I opened an account at imagekind ( http://Misericorde.imagekind.com/ ), but for now it's mostly just a placeholder until I have more work ready. Unfortunately they use cheap-ass image compression for the thumbnails (why would an art sight do this?), and the result is that some colors, especially reds, get garbled in the previews.

Now it all makes perfect sense. I'm sorry, Balor. I'd call you by your given name but I don't know that you want it well-known here.

I'm not setting you up for a mad, tortured genius joke. OK Maybe a little but you really are talented.

PS: banal wants more textured pics of your ass.

well it's very good, whatever it is. You should pursue painting as far as you can. You have a talent

I like your work

I have no art in me.

Would you like some Art in you?


I used to dabble a bit in art, but I haven't had the time needed to be creative in years.

ct: I approve of this new quick-edit function.

Wow. When did Garfunkel become a lighthouse with an afro?

CT: i'm disgusted by myself.

CT: I have to go take a shower and then I'm gonna have a sammich.

CT: I am cutting the poison out of my life, be it behaviors or people.

You will be missed here. Replaced too.

This place is actually a highlight of my day. Yea, that says volumes about me.

We love you too, Daddy!

CT: You smell that?

I have a cold, so no. But in other news, I think the GM pitchman has a curved spine.

I'm out of toilet paper.

I turn down friends requests to hang out, fairly frequently.

I recommend to stop doing that. For me, lonliness can lead to mopeyness/ sadness, so I try to hang out with friends 2+ times a week.

Mopeyess, yeah that describes it pretty well.