Honestly Kid

Friday, November 13th, 2009 | 2nd thoughts

My old pal Balzac

Simplebits pointed me to this great bit about cof­fee on theoatmeal.com. Great graph­ics, funny bits, and edu­ca­tional too.

I’ve been cut­ting back on my cof­fee drink­ing for the last few months — switched to green tea, which isn’t quite the rush, but keeps the caf­feine with­drawal at bay. Without the med­ical evi­dence we have now, I’d prob­a­bly go out with a 16 cup a day habit like my old pal Balzac.

Sure he kicked it (you know, ‘the’ bucket) when he was 51, but count up the vol­umes of his work in any decent library and you’ll know he didn’t sleep much either. The man lived! And he lived on coffee!

I’ll be in New York for the next few days and I’m look­ing for­ward to slid­ing off the wagon and into a steady stream of dou­ble shots no milk no sugar. That’s liv­ing, I tell you… that’s living…

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