There's a Book or a Word for It

Regular or avid readers of this bloggery (if there are such people) will know that I rarely never plug anything here. That's about to change because I have some recommendations. There's a Word for It by Charles Harrington Elster (available through Amazon.com) is a must read for lovers of words.

Today is day thirteen of NO SMOKING and NO ALCOHOL in the entire month of August for me and my friend Piers, so I thought I would dip into the wealth of words in the aforementioned book that relate to alcohol, and share a few of them with my great reading public. Other dipsomaniacs who started out on this journey with us have fallen, jumped, or been pushed off the wagon. You know who you are. It's only a month, for crying out loud. And no, it's not easy, especially when you're tackling several demons at once, but come on people! Anyhoo, back to the words:

bibulous: fond of drinking, especially excessively. That's a good one to describe me and most of my friends, especially members of Posh Table A.

capernoited: slightly intoxicated, tipsy. Interestingly, this word is Scottish and can also mean irritable and peevish. Prior to the August drinking ban, I could be capernoited most evenings at Posh Table A by 8pm. Since the self-imposed ban I've been constantly capernoited (and not in the good way, as is demonstrated in paragraph two above).

downdrins: an afternoon drinking session. A major one of these is scheduled for Thursday 1 September 2005.

xertz: to gulp down, swallow quickly and greedily. Who do we know who does that? Yes, you, you, AND YOU. You know who you are.

That's enough of those words; they're making me feel as if I have alcoholic anadipsia. Let's get back to plugging stuff.

Now that Famous Author Rob Byrnes has been elevated (?) to "celebrity gay author" status (note the lack of capital letters - hmmmmmm), I feel compelled to plug his books. So check out TRL - The Rob Log and buy his books, dammit.

Here's another plug. If you're high and have the munchies, you really need Pie in the Sky by Susan G Purdy, so that you can bake cakes, pies, cookies, breads, and pastries successfully at high altitudes. Susan is perhaps America's best baker and no kitchen should be without her latest book. I also like it because I'm mentioned not once but twice. (Does that make me a celebrity? Hmmmmm?) Buy it to find out why. Then bake some cakes and save me a slice. But don't make me have to climb ev'ry mountain or get high. It' still August after all.