Sober Intoxication and Mr. Huggy
I need to get one thing out in the open here:
I don't drink. At all.
(Well, I do drink water...but you know what I mean. :P )
Despite the fact that I am over 21 and have been in college for a number of years, I have not taken to alcohol. I've tried it on occasion, but never in enough doses to actually get drunk. The closest to inebriation that I have ever been was several years ago when my uncle pretty much forced me to play a drinking game with him. I had two beers, and I felt a little tipsy. But other than that and a handful of other times being *slightly* tipsy, I have been sober all of my life. I do not know what it feels like to go all the way and get drunk.
Why don't I drink? I simply have a great fear of handing over any conscious control of my mind and actions over to the influence of a foreign agent. For example, I do not want to go to a college party, get wasted, and find out the next morning that I had unprotected sex with a stranger and am now faced with herpes. I'm also NOT a fan of feeling sick, so another reason that I don't drink is because I do not want to have the pleasure of dealing with a bad hangover. There's a lot of discussion of drinking in "moderation," and that might be fine for a lot of folks, but I think that it's best for me if I just don't get started in this stuff at all. In my experience, a lot of drinking is done for purely social reasons, but I figure that anybody who wants me to drink to "fit in" is not really my friend at all.
But despite all of this, I am a great fan of intoxication. I believe that this state can be reached without the use of drugs. And I have been naturally intoxicated many times.
Here is an example of my natural intoxication:
Yes, that is me. And yes, that is a diaper. This picture was taken on my last birthday, and I thought that it would be a great, fun stunt to dress up in a diaper and a cape and go out in public. For this stunt, I created the character of "Mr. Huggy." The role of Mr. Huggy is to, of course, hug random women. I was feeling very lonely at the time, and I felt like I could use some good hugs with strangers to cheer me up. Thus I created the character to give women a good excuse to have a good laugh and hug the freak. The depends diaper, besides looking weird, is meant to establish the mental connection between the act of hugging and the established brand name of Huggies diapers. Diapers and hugging go hand in hand, I think.
The other function of Mr. Huggy is intoxication. It is not every day that I wear a diaper and a cape in public, so in doing this, I was celebrating The Out of the Ordinary. Mr. Huggy was an impromptu manifestation of the Joyous Human Spirit in me, and by donning this persona, I brought smiles and laughter to those who least expected it. That, for me, is what this Drama that is Life is all about. Intoxication is a celebration of life, and one does not need drugs to reach that state. I am high on life all of the time. So the next time that someone sees me in a diaper and asks me where I found the good weed, I will have to tell him or her that, "There is no weed. There is only me."
I am feeling the need for another public stunt, and, of course, it has to be larger in scale than Mr. Huggy. I am in the planning stages! I will divulge more later!.
I don't drink. At all.
(Well, I do drink water...but you know what I mean. :P )
Despite the fact that I am over 21 and have been in college for a number of years, I have not taken to alcohol. I've tried it on occasion, but never in enough doses to actually get drunk. The closest to inebriation that I have ever been was several years ago when my uncle pretty much forced me to play a drinking game with him. I had two beers, and I felt a little tipsy. But other than that and a handful of other times being *slightly* tipsy, I have been sober all of my life. I do not know what it feels like to go all the way and get drunk.
Why don't I drink? I simply have a great fear of handing over any conscious control of my mind and actions over to the influence of a foreign agent. For example, I do not want to go to a college party, get wasted, and find out the next morning that I had unprotected sex with a stranger and am now faced with herpes. I'm also NOT a fan of feeling sick, so another reason that I don't drink is because I do not want to have the pleasure of dealing with a bad hangover. There's a lot of discussion of drinking in "moderation," and that might be fine for a lot of folks, but I think that it's best for me if I just don't get started in this stuff at all. In my experience, a lot of drinking is done for purely social reasons, but I figure that anybody who wants me to drink to "fit in" is not really my friend at all.
But despite all of this, I am a great fan of intoxication. I believe that this state can be reached without the use of drugs. And I have been naturally intoxicated many times.
Here is an example of my natural intoxication:
Yes, that is me. And yes, that is a diaper. This picture was taken on my last birthday, and I thought that it would be a great, fun stunt to dress up in a diaper and a cape and go out in public. For this stunt, I created the character of "Mr. Huggy." The role of Mr. Huggy is to, of course, hug random women. I was feeling very lonely at the time, and I felt like I could use some good hugs with strangers to cheer me up. Thus I created the character to give women a good excuse to have a good laugh and hug the freak. The depends diaper, besides looking weird, is meant to establish the mental connection between the act of hugging and the established brand name of Huggies diapers. Diapers and hugging go hand in hand, I think.
The other function of Mr. Huggy is intoxication. It is not every day that I wear a diaper and a cape in public, so in doing this, I was celebrating The Out of the Ordinary. Mr. Huggy was an impromptu manifestation of the Joyous Human Spirit in me, and by donning this persona, I brought smiles and laughter to those who least expected it. That, for me, is what this Drama that is Life is all about. Intoxication is a celebration of life, and one does not need drugs to reach that state. I am high on life all of the time. So the next time that someone sees me in a diaper and asks me where I found the good weed, I will have to tell him or her that, "There is no weed. There is only me."
I am feeling the need for another public stunt, and, of course, it has to be larger in scale than Mr. Huggy. I am in the planning stages! I will divulge more later!.
You have a CAPE? You have a cape and I don't?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just as well I can't see your picture (my computer blocked it as an ad).Cape. Not fair. Cape. He has a cape!
Right. I've got over that now.
I don't drink either, though after I left school I did try the usual stuff as one is generally expected to. I don't drink for all of your reasons PLUS the fact that it just TASTES DISGUSTING! Who ever actually likes wine or beer the first time they taste it? No one! It's an 'acquired taste' meaning you have to train yourself to like the wretched stuff, which most people are willing to do because they will fit in better socially. But, as you and I know, people are STUPID!
Don't believe all that red-wine-isgood-for-your-health rubbish. It's the red grapes .. so drink dark grape juice. Red wine is actually counter productive because, although the flavenoids from the grapes aregood4 your cardiovascular system etc, the alcohol content (and it is the same with any alcoholic drink) is a tumour growth-promotant. (And I mean cancer). Interestingly, so is refined sugar. So you may want to lay off that, too!
I'm gonna get me a cape AND a theme song!
Posted by
anonymous jones |
9:43 PM
Well, I HAD a cape, but then I threw it away! Oh no! It was a cheap cape, and it was torn up, so I tossed it. But here Texas we have one of the greatest Renaissance Faires in the world, so I will likely buy a GOOD CAPE when I go there in a few months!
Here's a link to the Ren. Fest site:
http://www.texrenfest.com/
I'm definitely going to this as it is SO MUCH FREAKIN' FUN! Hopefully I can find a lovely lady to go with this year...that would be awesome!
And yes, I hate how alcoholic drinks taste too! I forgot to mention that. I don't understand why people drink to fit in; I view the whole process of conforming to such a stupid thing as indulging the Death Instinct. Life can be a grand stage if we let it -- why hand over Life's reigns to forces beyond one's control?
Posted by
Chauntecleer |
8:39 PM