ORNAMENT OF MY MIGHT

• 2011-08-23

  CULTURAL STUDIES

  T-Pain’s bar logic (“Ooh, she made us drinks to drink, we drunk ‘em, got drunk”) bears a striking resemblance to one of the early New York tabloid police report subjects I read about last week:

  William Smith (alias Fitz), “got drunk by drinking too much.” The magistrate informed him that this was the way in which people always got drunk, and admonished him to lead a sober life in the future; after which he was discharged.

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