<![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead' - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead' - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> I'm assuming David Carr is on Team Nilla? Which makes him rare indeed - caucasian folks who a. smoked crack then b. went on to become successful writers. I'm just sayin'

Hey_mikey

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> @mitchel_stevens: If you're lucky you'll grow out of it.

artynimue1

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> @Adminitraitor:

Yeah my pops just got non-hodgkin's lymphoma, and it shitty but treatable, thank god. It happend to be right around the time the onion published that fun "I put my daddy in a box" thing. Hooray for me!

@mitchel_stevens:
ditto, dude. even though I study nothing related to journalism.

AmericanSplendor is politically frustrated

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> So.... should I stop doing coke at work?

LoveHandles

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> How much mileage can one get out of once being a crackhead? (Insert the mileage between the Twin Cities, Washington D.C. and Montclair.)

True story: At a post-Clinton impeachment party and, already warned that he'd bring up his crack thing within two minutes, turned the discussion toward the Vikings. I didn't think it would be so simple: "Oh, people in Minnesota are crazy about the Vikings. But that was back when I had a crack problem." One minute, 40 seconds.

ignats

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> His Loose Lips column was one of the best things about the DC Citypaper in the 80's. Shades of Stephen Glass; weird story--drugz--inventive writer.

MissVolare

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> omg thank u praise the goddess i was merely swept up in the great login error of 008 and not executed

i want to thank my friends and most of all i want to thank ...

wait, another drug memoir by a writer?

has anyone checked if it's true?

also, montclair is the mckibben lofts of the over 30's

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> Funnily enough, whenever I'm in Montclair, I also spend all of my time lifting the blinds and peeking out at a world that I am increasingly scared to venture into.

MrInBetween

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> @J. Henry Waugh: When discussing that rag we refer to it as the "Washington Shitty Paper."

s.eth

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> I want to be David Carr when I grow up.

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> @J. Henry Waugh:
Good call. I think he used to write "Loose Lips," which was not nearly as skanky as it sounds.

Botswana Meat Commission FC

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> They're not overrated to me; I'll probably read this one too.

I find it strangely easy to accept that the most compelling love stories of our time are biochemical in origin. For some reason that seems about right to me.

skahammer

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> Addiction stories seem so overrated now. Why do publishers keep publishing these tell-alls?

miramesa

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> He contributes recollections to this oral history of The Replacements I'm reading and that was a druggy band and scene.

heyimtalkinhere

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> @AmericanSplendor: Aaatch. That sucks, but Hodgkin's is treatable. I knew someone who had it over ten years ago, and is totally fine now.

Adminitraitor

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> David Carr is the nicest person I've ever met. But, he carries himself quite oddly and I thought it was because of all that crack he be smokin' back in the day. Turns out it was a consequence of treatment for Hodgkin's disease.

But still, he smoked a lot of crack, which makes him kind of the man. And a super nice man at that. Plus, his kids are nice, too.

AmericanSplendor is politically frustrated

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> "Fulminating" makes crack addiction seem so...classy.

Adminitraitor

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> Better than a "fulsome crackhead" I guess. I am buying this book when it comes out.

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[David Carr Was A 'Fulminating Crackhead']]> Washington City Paper Alumni in da house!

J. Henry Waugh

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