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Vincent, the Nigerian narrator of Segun Afolabi's impressive new novel, Goodbye Lucille, has left London and his girlfriend for 1985 Berlin. Working as a photographer, he spends his free time there getting drunk with his friends: Clariss, a transsexual ex-marine turned escort girl; B, a Cameroonian working in removals; and Tunde, a Nigerian playboy who selects girlfriends largely on the basis of their breast size. They are all in exile of a kind. Ari, Vincent's Kurdish neighbor, has been driven to paranoia by the violence he has witnessed. His friend Ezmir kills himself after "an interview with...
...chose mostly D’s, your study style is...”Jail.” You probably got caught driving drunk in September, spent the next seven months violating your probation, and are now shocked that a triple threat like yourself may be considered an actual threat to society. You are probably afraid of being violated. What you don’t know is that your new roommates have all already watched “One Night in Paris,” and they're kind of, um, not interested...
...second floor of Lamont, you can watch hardcore pornography on the televisions while drinking yourself to finals glory. Congress should pass a law that says this is awesome. Some people have papers due during finals period, and they spend all their time writing those papers—while drunk! Hey Poindexter, why don’t you crawl back in the womb where you won’t have to have any motherfucking fun? To be on the cutting edge of rage, don’t bother drinking before you have a paper to write. Go straight for the good...
...specialized in masterlyportrayals of comically clueless guys--guys he described as being "about a half-step behind life's parade." Brilliant bumbler Tom Poston got his start as one of Steve Allen's "man on the street" interviewees and later shone as a spacey drunk in Mork & Mindy and a hapless handyman in Newhart, roles he said he understood all too well. "In ways I don't like to admit, I'm a goof-up myself," he said...
Harvard students are still drinking too much and ending up in Stillman Infirmary—they’re just not getting as drunk as students in years past, according to Ryan M. Travia, director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services...