how to make alcohol

• Mix yeast and sugar together

• The yeast eats the sugar

• The yeast will then digest the sugar, shit alcohol, and die in its own shit.

I drank five fifths of vodka yesterday after knowing this. It tasted like shit, so I mixed it with guava juice. The gray porridge inside my skull diminishes on a daily basis. Here's Joan Didion on self-respect:

“People with self respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called character, a quality which, although approved in the abstract sometimes loses ground to other, more instantly negotiable virtues…Character–the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life–is the source from which self-respect springs.”