Drunk  in road.  This video is so incredibly pathetic.  For one thing, it seems almost impossible that this guy survived in the first place.  I’ve been that drunk!  Passed out at an island bar in the middle of the pool at a hotel in Ixtapa, Mexico.  The guy next to me grabbed my by the hair and pulled me up to safety.  I woke up with a horrible sun burn and hang-over to match.  Like I said,...

If you’re the alcoholic in your family, then you’re always to blame. No matter what it is, if it’s bad and it happened in your household… YOU’RE TO BLAME..! Some of the crap I pulled made me guilty of even the stuff I didn’t do. No doubt, that’s what rolled around in my guilt ridden pea brain. Let’s look at the alcoholic’s children. Can we say for certain that the behavior of these kids is the result of having an alcoholic father? According to Jorge Valles, M.D., the general tendency is to say yes. If a boy misbehaves in school and it’s discovered that his father is an...

Welcome to “Hoot’s Drunk of the Day.” As a recovering drunk, I want to show just how ugly being drunk can be. Very few things will stop the alcoholic from drinking.  Sobriety comes after an epiphany, or spiritual moment of the highest order, and/or we finally get sick and tired of being sick and tired. Most of us said, “Well, if I ever get that bad, I’ll quit drinking.” Then as we sank deeper into our behavior, we set new highs for our lows.  Before you know it, there is no low that’s too low. Some of the “Hoot’s Drunk of the Day” are...

Hello my Fellow Drunks: Where do we get these lame expressions that are plastered all over the walls at AA meetings..? After all the years I’ve been working on changing the way I behave in a sober world, I’m still amazed at how often I awkwardly manage my life. The Main Ingredient, with Cuba Gooding Jr.’s father as lead singer, sang it: “Everybody Plays the Fool, sometime.” When I played that song on the radio, my comment was, “Yeah, but I just wish my turn wouldn’t come up so often.” Even though I laugh about it, it’s an ongoing feature of my personality. Now I come from a...

Hello my fellow Drunks… It’s nice to be able to address you in that manner knowing that if anyone else said that to you, you might knock their head off. To me, it means we’ve been to hell and back. We’ve wallowed in the depths of dispair and even considered killing ourselves. But, with sobriety came our opportunity to right the wrongs of our alcoholic past. The wreckage of my past is strewn all along the highway of my life. Three wives, a family that gave up on me and lost friends, too many to count. So today, let’s turn our attention to the Codependent. If you...

This is a blog with a lot of Alcoholics Anonymous language. I apologize to those who are reading this, that don’t attend a Twelve Step program, it’s just that AA saved my life and it’s doing so for those close to me. In AA, which took me a long time to digest, time means a lot. We all want to be able to say, “Yeah, I’m working on my second year.” Sometimes, doing time is just that – accumulating time. What’s important is HOW you do your time. For me, waking up, having a chat with God, reading from my 24 Hour book and setting a goal to be a better man today than I was yesterday,...

A twenty year study of the drinking habits of our senior citizens reveals some interesting factors. Aside from the fact that life gets lonely when your partner passes away and a drink or two helps pad the pain, it’s important to keep an eye on yourself, or your mother or father. The study found that older adults are more likely to engage in high-risk drinking, which is defined as more than three drinks per day or more than fourteen per week. Good grief, I used to down 14 drinks in one sitting on a regular basis. I spilled more than three drinks a day! I’m not bragging, I’m just sayin’…....

Recent events in my life include having a few people very close to me, find sobriety. It feels good and encouraging. It reminded me of my first meeting at AA. It was on Ohio Street in Santa Monica, California and was downright scary. As I pulled up to the clubhouse, I was thrown off by the amount of people hanging around outside before the meeting, laughing and looking very happy. No panhandling or guys with slobber in their beards. No red eyes looking like a roadmap of Puerto Rico. I didn’t know what to expect, but whatever notion I had preconceived, included a few winos, sitting on the ground,...

A note from about.com covers the “Everyone’s Doing It” aspect of drinking and drugging. At least from a teenager’s perception. But, that notion is not supported by facts. The fact is most teens go through high school without ever using drugs, drinking alcohol or even smoking. Of the more dangerous drugs, over 90% have never tried them. It’s easy for us fathers and mothers to believe that there’s a dope dealer on every corner, which apparently is not the case. The idea here then, is to council our kids who say, “Yeah but Dad, everyone is doing it,” to...

Hello my friends…. Recognizing you’re an alcoholic doesn’t necessarily mean you’re on the road to sobriety. For many of us, like me, it took years of living in and dishing out misery. So I’ve decided to give you an opportunity to hear firsthand what happened on the day I finally came to grips and found sobriety. On the front page of my website www.mynameishoot.com click on the opening chapter of Drunk & Disorderly, Again – My name is Hoot, I’m an alcoholic. It’s a FREE three minute audio of me reading Chapter One. Drunk and Disorderly, Again - Chapter One Alcoholism is not a...