The Book
The travel stories are followed by a discussion with my psychiatrist years later about each trip. I included some unusual thoughts and a family newsletter, also.
Table of Contents:
1) Forward: My Slow Hideous Descent to Hell: Meeting a Publisher
2) Introduction: Things You Should Never Say to Your Psychiatrist While Sober
Travel Stories
3) Raeford, North Carolina 1976: A Stranger in a Strange Land
Meeting My Psychiatrist 41 Years Later: Running in the Shadows
4) Asheville, North Carolina 1977: The Kids Get Along Fine. It’s the Adults.
Meeting My Psychiatrist 40 Years Later: What did Saddam Hussein say to Bill Clinton?
5) Tennessee, Texas and New Mexico 1977: Peyote and Bourbon
Meeting My Psychiatrist 40 Years Later: Get Your Shovel Ready
6) Washington, DC 1978: Black Beauties, Punky Reggae and Things You Can Do in College but Really Shouldn’t
Meeting My Psychiatrist 39 Years Later: How Many Narcissists Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?
7) Amsterdam 1979
a) Chapter 1: The Window Women, Electric Body Paint and the Return of the Thin White Duke
b) Chapter 2: The Strange Case of the 7″ Stilettos and the Church Going Heathens
8) Mexico 1979
a) Chapter 1: The Chicken and the Glory
b) Chapter 2: The Chariots of Fire
c) Chapter 3: Remembrance of Sombreros Past
d) Chapter 4: The Scream of the Wild
e) Chapter 5:You Are So Mediocre to Me
f) Chapter 6: Your Secret Garden is Safe With Me
g) Chapter 7: Das Kapital-ist and the Communist Malaprop-o
h) Chapter 8: Don’t Drink the Water Bottle Caps
i) Chapter 9: The Night of the Long Drool
k) Chapter 10: That’s One Birth, One Breakup, and One Goddess to Go
9) West Point, New York 1980: The Spanking of the Lambs
10) Hong Kong 1982
a) Chapter 1: It’s a Concrete Jungle Out There
b) Chapter 2: Losing My Religion
c) Chapter 3: Fish of Wrath
11) Nashville, Tennessee 1985: Keith Richards and Me
12) Sweden 1985
a) Chapter 1: Helmet-Head, Butt-Hair & the Book of Daniel
b) Chapter 2: Butterflies, Rainbows & a Kiss on the Lips
c) Chapter 3: This’ll be the Day Your Life Will Surely Change
d) Chapter 4: Beethoven’s Precious ****in’ Moments in D Minor
Meeting My Psychiatrist 32 Years Later: Have You Actually Ever Seen Anyone Paying Through the Nose?
13) Midwest, USA 1999: The Committee and the Tenth Circle of Hell
14) New York City, NY 2002: Tell Me What Keeps You Up at Night!
Unusual Thoughts
1) Elementary School Education: The Spy Who Came in from the Casino
2) Bad Parenting Advice: Getting Baked with Baked Alaska – Parenting Advice from Someone Who Has No Kids (as Far as He Knows)
3) Journalism Lecture: How to Commit Journalism: We Want Dirty Laundry
4) Close Encounter with a Cat: Journey to the End of the Cat Box
5) Letters to Mom: Letters from Summer Camp (or, Six Views on Hell)
6) Clarence Clemons: Au Revoir, Big Man
7) Family Newsletter: Oh, Dear. Another Family Newsletter!
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