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Geoffrey Tanner's avatar

I really really like this So much irreverent truth!

For some reason it is triggering this very lateral thought that I think you would enjoy my favorite motto:

"It's better to do nothing than to waste your time"

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

I totally agree with that motto.

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David Essex's avatar

In my friend's Tribeca loft he assured me that one 'could fly a private plane' on the MDMA he had laid in my palm. I trusted him and four clubs and an extra tab later I had to step outside a speakeasy catchily but invisibly trademarked 'Nickel Bag' to get some cool and smokeless air. The dirty, dim-lit avenue curved off over the horizon into infinity somehow -- and I knew that was right. Though I was glad I was not flying a private plane at that moment. My date and I ended up in bed at the Waldorf at dawn, and later inadvisably married. Wouldna missed it. Hell's shittiest hole holds those always in control.

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𝐃𝐮𝐕𝐀𝐘 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐗's avatar

I read this with my BREAKFAST BLUNT and everythang U wrote (that I cant remember rite now) was Correct.

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

I'm going to have to take you to the International House of Pancakes.

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𝐃𝐮𝐕𝐀𝐘 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐗's avatar

Bet. Lemme sip on dat syrup.

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Chris Norris's avatar

Very nice and even-handed. Your cringey encounter with“therapeutic”MDMA recalls Dave Hickey’s withering postmortem on Foucault’s decision to drop acid in the desert, listening to Stockhausen. (Wrong setting! Wrong music! Wrong drugs!)

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Steve Kirk's avatar

I think we are on the same page here.

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

Good to know.

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Jeff Baskin's avatar

This perfectly captures my own sentiments about drugs. Beautifully written, enlightening, and of course funny as hell!

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Robert Bitzan's avatar

Delightful perspective, again...

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

Thank you Sir!

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Cynthia De Moss's avatar

Dang, this is perfection. I needed to HOWL on Thanksgiving!~

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

Thank you Mama!

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MonaLott's avatar

Oh Judy...I call GP "Goop", because I'm a petty bitch. I don't care. *cackles in gay*

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

(cackles back in the gay I learned in my twenties)

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MonaLott's avatar

It's one of the better dialects out there

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Janine de Novais's avatar

Judy knew you better than to think that was gonna work on you!

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

It was perplexing. She knows me pretty well.

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Janine de Novais's avatar

I really enjoyed picturing the sacrilegious moment of you cracking up whilst being led in meditation--hilarious!!!

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Eteri Chkadua's avatar

Thank you!

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

Thank you, beautiful Eteri!

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Jeremy's avatar

Ahh, I’ve wasted my life.

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

It's never too late to start doing drugs.

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Teófilo de Jesús's avatar

We agree on nothing. But I love your telling it.

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

I was figuring that would be the majority opinion.

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DeeDee D's avatar

That was delightful! Thanks 👍🏽

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

Thank you DeeDee!

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appleton king's avatar

if it gets any better than this anywhere im open to suggestion....from kiestering down shit to the "cheating slut" you make me laugh and imopressed that behind the madness there IS a deeper angle you are exploring and we have all lost people to the wanton greedy deadly dilution of street drugs over the years and i am sorry for your loss and more to come for all of us: the suppression of psychedelics is a fight for making room in our legalised thc stores for them where they can be safely regulated and i appreciate you pointing this out even as your provocative perch in the tub is distracting.....

ps my sister Lily wrote a novel loosely based on the anthropologist Margaret Meade in which she describes quite sensuously a scene where the women of some New Guinea tribe release appear to release sexual tensions in an over-heated hut ostensibly some kind of sweat lodge as i recall (she has not approved of this advertisement nor does she need it lol and perhaps would be horrified) im wondering if that is one tribe your friend from Yale overlooked...hmmmmm

anyways keep on truckin' stay safe xo

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

Why they gotta do it in a sweat lodge tho? Huh?

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appleton king's avatar

true that....but at least the men in tribe weren't outside hangin from branches filming it for Tik Tok so.......

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Jenny Kay's avatar

Yes! I think that anything that pulls people out of the soul-drain of stress and restores their creative juices is great in moderation. The problem is, as with anything I suppose, the ability to curtail these “pleasurable” experiences varies from person to person. In small doses, altered states are healthy. Even when acquired naturally, like say after a hike. It's just a matter of balance.

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