All of America isn't strung out on street drugs, they're strung out on prescribed drugs.
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We were completely strung out, and we had no songs.
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Fast forward two months later and I was totally strung out.
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They weren't together but strung out over a few dozen yards.
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They lay strung out on endorphins, retching smiles up to the roof.
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I'd be strung out on private beaches, and staying in expensive hotels.
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"I couldn't do anything but be strung out, pretty much," she says.
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I was a complete and utter wreck, strung out, and on edge.
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I had been strung out for years and needed to dry out.
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A third of the population is strung out on it, they said.
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" Addressing Julian Casablancas, Adams asked, "Who got you strung out on lasagne, though?
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They're strung out on drugs, out of school and drifting day to day.
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Their eyes are wide, deliriously happy, and probably also a little bit strung out.
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You've got Old Man Markley doing bluegrass, but then Strung Out doing more metal.
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Your kale smoothie may have come at the expense of a poor, strung-out plant.
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But I feel more calm and comfortable and not so wired up and strung out.
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Some processes that used to be tightly held together are now strung out across the world.
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McCullough (Emily Tarver), in particular, is strung out and affected by the events of the riot.
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When you're strung out, every inhalation triggers a craving for a cigarette instead of fresh air.
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It's packed with glittering pop-melodies, teeth-gnashing heavy crescendos, and delicately strung out alternative rock.
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I know him from being strung out on crack cocaine to being a soldier for ISIS.
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It's looking right at you, eyes like a couple marbles, body oddly scrawny and strung-out.
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But Israel and Thailand have been more flexible, which has strung out their appreciations over time.
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" The mood swoops between feral despair and strung-out longing—check out Kurt rhyming "mother" with "summer.
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The archipelago is strung out along a fault line under the Indian Ocean off its west coast.
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"We're preventing women who are strung out on drugs and alcohol from conceiving a child," Harris says.
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We are the numb scrollers on the other side—strung out, edgy, sleepless, and unable to stop.
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At this time he looked strangely similar to Tom Verlaine; they both had that strung-out farmhand vibe.
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The doctor commissioned to save Prince's life treated one of the most strung out rock stars in history.
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With its strung-out vocals and twisting, climbing chord progressions, "Needed Me" is Rihanna at her absolute best.
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He was too strung out to be relied on for anything except helping a sick friend through withdrawal.
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It seemed to me then, as the agony of recovery grew nearer, that I was better off strung out.
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While strung out on drugs, he stole a gun and shot one of his attackers outside of their school.
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But if that suspect was strung out on PCP, the the same police veteran is now a racist murderer.
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A Scottish heroin addict (Ewan McGregor) tries to kick the habit, with no help from his strung-out friends.
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The tributes to Jim Cherry [Strung Out] and Tony Sly [No Use For A Name] were a nice touch.
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Soon, they were making out, going to the bathroom every five minutes, and coming out looking super strung out.
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All the people I knew back then are either in jail for life or strung out on the streets.
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But of course the members of this Republican Party, strung out on Trumpism, care nothing about duty and patriotism.
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There is a buffalo strung out to dry outside and a tall stack of deer legs at the door.
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It was winter 2003, and she was with friends strung out on drugs, her mind in a crazed disorientation.
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They may be awake, but they may feel even more strung out and anxious than when they started out.
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While I encounter them often, I never photograph homelessness, people who are strung out on drugs, shot, or even murdered.
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I didn't want to wait, strung-out-like, for a notification to ring in a response from a crucial source.
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Klee pictured the Europeans of 1939 in a manner not unlike the Americans of 2019: petulant, belligerent, strung out, sleepwalking.
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In September, Peru Ecocamp will open with five deluxe camps strung out along the Salkantay trail leading to Machu Picchu.
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How Geno found himself in New Orleans so he could conveniently sing with the strung-out Pamela is left unexplained.
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Yet, the reason why I was spiraling into a strung-out wastoid was because of a lack of self-control.
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With Game of Thrones' second-to-last season on the horizon, we're strung out on anticipation but pretty starved for details.
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The extent to which I got strung out was a very private thing to me—it wasn't something that I advertised.
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Tuna; French fries; strung-out celebrities ordering drive-thru Champagne; Mafia-led execution-style contract killings—that's the stuff of childhood.
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Bosch does great work undercover as a strung-out oxycodone user, although he nearly gets himself killed in a spectacular way.
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Erin Khar's debut memoir, "Strung Out," about her own 15-year addiction and eventual recovery, looks nothing like this standard narrative.
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"I remember being in tears, so dramatic, just so fucking strung out and so fucked up and just holding on," Barlow says.
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Everyone you encounter reminds you of how strung out you look, and to make matters worse, the televisions start talking to you.
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Turns out it's her strung-out mom and her possibly jail-bound dad, and of course, the imminent collapse of our planet.
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After two days in Rationality House, I was feeling strung out, overwhelmed by the relentless interaction and confounded by the workshop's obfuscatory jargon.
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He also admitted—along with Lonnie Smith and others—that he came to the park strung out, nose bleeding, barely able to focus.
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It could be that "Captive of the Sun" has just the right sort of strung-out glory for Bun B to fall into.
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These two strung out junkies are a shameless, disrespectful representation of parenthood and should NEVER be allowed to see this child EVER AGAIN!!!
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Pehrson's LA is strung out, bloodshot, ennui, and second-hand smoke—a place of predators and sycophants, desperate strivers and the catatonic famous.
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My mom has boyfriends and serial husbands, and works as a nurse when she's not too strung out on prescription drugs or heroin.
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"Some of the cotton will still be on the plant but strung out like someone papered your field with toilet paper," he said.
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Or do they evaporate as soon as the music stops and the last weary, strung-out partier boards his or her plane home?
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Strong crosswinds at the start in the Rhone Valley split the peloton into "echelons" — groups of strung-out riders fanned across the road.
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Red and Blanca (Laura Gómez) teamed up early in the season, digging through the officers' personnel files and getting strung out on speed.
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Using his phone again, Mr Elder changes the colours and brightness of the 1,000 light-emitting diodes (LEDs) strung out above each tray.
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Families who once supported a "throw away the key" approach to addiction are thinking differently now that their loved ones are strung out.
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It was those lenses that captured a photo of Culkin looking emaciated in 2012, which led to rumors he was strung out on drugs.
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He put on Nicky's glasses and even a hardened, likely strung-out soldier like Nicky couldn't deny how cute the kid looked in them.
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I mean it was just guys strung out all over the place—yeah, you had a lot of like socialism, communism, stuff like that.
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When children are wandering off to find the neighbors because their strung-out parents are lying unconscious on the floor, opioids deserve the headlines.
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Last year, K2 abuse enveloped a stretch of 125th Street in East Harlem, leaving a trail of twitching, strung-out users in the process.
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A lot of my friends shot dope in front of me and got strung out, and my own father had an overdose in 1966.
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Many came from rough backgrounds -- they'd been strung out on drugs or spent time behind bars -- and currently labored at tough blue-collar jobs.
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Sometimes more than 21998 words chose to be in a Gass sentence, in which clauses, connected by semicolons, were strung out like railroad cars.
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"I'd much rather that be my addiction than be strung out on crack, but now I have to struggle to find balance," he told said.
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We were in LA, and Dave was still on the East Coast and it was our last strung out era when we were like, cool.
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The studio's once-pristine equipment was falling into disrepair; engineers like Johnson, once the best in the business, were strung out and off their game.
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When it ends in a death spiral of garbage rewards and gatekeeping and strung-out unrewarding time sinks, we mourn it what could have been.
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In Her Smell, Elisabeth Moss is mesmerizing whirling dervish Becky Something, the strung-out lead singer of a '90s girl-punk group called Something She.
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The economic recovery that followed, bolstered by cheap interest rates that ultimately yielded the slightly bloated and strung-out market for both public and private investors?
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LONDON — Communist Chinese troops in division strength are being transferred from China's border with India to the strung-out frontier along Sinkiang facing the Soviet Union.
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Fifteen years earlier, strung out on drugs after a night of partying, she was involved in a car accident that took the life of a cyclist.
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"Mentally, the toughest part for me is seeing all the strung out junkies in San Francisco," a driver named Austin told Business Insider in an interview.
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It all switches up halfway through, when the tracks cut out and a clean guitar comes in, but the song returns to its strung-out origins.
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In Her Smell, Elisabeth Moss is the mesmerizing whirling dervish Becky Something, the strung-out lead singer of a '90s riot grrrl group called Something She.
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In Her Smell, Elisabeth Moss plays the mesmerizing whirling dervish Becky Something, the strung-out lead singer of a '211s riot grrrl group called Something She.
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In Her Smell, Elisabeth Moss plays the mesmerizing whirling dervish Becky Something, the strung-out lead singer of a '90s riot grrrl group called Something She.
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He took it off and tearfully gave it to me, a symbol of how much he loved me and also how strung out we all were.
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The satellites, strung out like a line of glowing army ants, shone brightly as they moved along their orbit around Earth, clearly visible to the naked eye.
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The alone time before you went out might have recharged you enough to make it through the night, but chances are you're now feeling totally strung out.
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This season struggled with plots strung out far longer than they needed to be, but by doing this, the writers have neatly wrapped up all of them.
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For emotionally strung-out family members trying to obtain the most basic details they're entitled to, this lack of cooperation is not only frustrating but potentially harmful.
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We passed little coastal towns strung out along the beaches — clusters of low houses with thatched palm roofs and a few canoes pulled up on the sand.
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These ever-so-slightly-tinted, blue-light lenses work like low-light sunglass lenses without exuding the look of a bored, hungover, or strung-out movie star.
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" He told us he's been far more strung out on opioids in the past, but feels he needs treatment now to get him "over that last hump.
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A previous show in Miami ended before it even began when a strung-out Johnny stumbled out onstage and begged Saul for help in front of the audience.
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Power takes the form of military bases and listening posts strung out across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, from Alaska to South Korea to Australia to Diego Garcia.
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The pumice is strung out in long streamers, suggesting it has been smeared and distorted by ocean currents and weather as the pumice floats along the ocean surface.
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Shortly after Hannah's strung-out ex Justin (Brandon Flynn) accuses a confused Clay of being "not so innocent," Clay receives a package in the mail from Hannah herself.
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At that time, he was completely strung out on codeine and so alarmingly paranoid that no one wanted to be around him—even his now-fiancé, Keyshia Ka'oir.
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Thugger goes off about buying the new Louis Vuitton and his desire to "fuck every bitch under the sun," but he's more strung-out than he is thrilled.
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Coming off the final climb and with the peloton strung out, Sky's Michal Kwiatkowsi burst into the lead and stayed out in front until the final two kilometers.
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His best friend was dead, most of his other close brothers were locked up on long bids, and he found out another partner was strung out on meth.
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Men strung out across the fields, the trusty shooters stalking the edge, the driver on his mule, the caller yelling to the sun, throwing his working song out.
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He was a man who had spent time in kitchens, half drunk or strung out, beaten delirious by exhaustion, eating meals leaned against appliances, hovering over the trash.
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He was ensconced on the floor in the lounge downstairs, wallowing in a pit of Lego and candy wrappers, strung out on sugar and hypnotized by large screen cartoons.
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She tells her there were nine times that she and Darla's father came down to look for her when she was strung out and they hadn't heard from her.
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Danny Boyle's cult classic — about a Scottish heroin addict (Ewan McGregor) who tries to kick the habit, with no help from his strung-out friends — celebrates its 20th anniversary.
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"We cannot assume that we're going to see a 12-vehicle convey strung out on a highway coming out of a tunnel, all nice and lined up," said Pike.
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Metacritic score: 69 In Her Smell, Elisabeth Moss is the mesmerizing whirling dervish Becky Something, the strung-out lead singer of a '90s riot grrrl group called Something She.
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For at a following visit, my father brought home a young woman off the street, about my age, strung out on something that made her move like a shadow.
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The city, built mostly from native stone, is "strung out along the creek like pearls on a necklace," observed Ronald Pen, a professor emeritus at the University of Kentucky.
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This process is likely to be strung out even more, with an additional 2.6 million reviews to conduct over the next 10 years, as stated in the proposed rule.
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It's called "Pulled Down," and it's a half-hearted ode to self-destruction , played by Becky in the studio when she's too strung out to function; her creativity suffers accordingly.
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The trip starts with, to me, a vision of hell: kids screaming, eating cake, running around a tiny plane in the middle of the night while the parents look strung out.
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Instead, opt for the mountain stages, on which the riders will likely be strung out single file in small groups and going (relatively) slower as they labor up the steep gradients.
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The way formations of soldiers get strung-out as they move, and the way they dissolve as a battle turns into Mo-Cap Mosh Pit in the center of the map.
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It's three minutes of strung out guitars and drums careening in and out of surf punk melodies, with Folick relinquishing her last fuck as her voice swoops from sweet to unhinged.
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If your original budget was for a year but now it's been extended to a year-and-a-half, everything gets strung out and the money just gets thinner and thinner.
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From strung out stars like Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic to Daniil Medvedev and Ajla Tomljanovic, these passionate players take a major hit to the heart when the stakes are so high.
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An unfortunate turn of events at the office leads to a dystopian turn of events for a very strung-out Ross: "Someone at work ate my sandwich!" he shrieks in Central Perk.
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Say them out loud to elicit images of strung out hippies waving their hands around and making things out of flowers, or of an innocent youth's mind snapping under the weight of acid.
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At the local jail, she was so strung out she had no idea that she was five months pregnant until a sheriff's deputy handed her a prenatal vitamin after a routine pregnancy screen.
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Charlie Sheen stayed up for 48 hours for his role Sheen wasn't actually on any drugs for filming, he simply spent a marathon 48 hours awake to achieve the requisite strung-out look. 6.
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The commercial web steams on as a hopped-up, strung-out system of hyperlinks, engineered to mix Barnumesque humbug with authentic reports, and to overlap ads and news—the better to sucker the eye.
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Don't get roped into weekend plans, instead lay low with some shots of lounging celebs in hammocks ... swing through our gallery of stars strung out to get a whole new view of net neutrality.
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That year, his label released Fat Music for Fat People, a 14-track CD featuring Propagandhi, Lagwagon, and Strung Out, among others on his roster, and started giving it away at shows for free.
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In the movie's most powerful moment, she strides onto the stage of an illegal concert in Communist Prague, strung out and stressed and contemptuous of the danger her fans have faced to be there.
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In her behavior toward three very different women — a grieving mother, a strung-out addict and a young protégée, all played hauntingly by Toni Ann DeNoble — she exults in an almost Dickensian self-regard.
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A little of this kind of teasing is fine — necessary, even — but in this series the game playing is strung out for so long that it's in danger of becoming more annoying than intriguing.
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But because it all happened in a relatively short period of time — not strung out over a period of months — it's going to be easier for law enforcement to figure out who did it.
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Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell star as two strung-out assistants who conspire to get their bosses (played by Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs) to fall in love so they can get a break.
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If you've ever experienced a flicker of paranoia when taking a balloon—the sensation that you've lost a second or two of consciousness—then imagine that strung out over the course of half an hour.
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In "Heaven is My Thing Again," for instance, we are given at what first sounds like a strung-out Scissor Sisters, but on closer inspection contains the odd, distorted scream or drawling LA voice-over.
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III: Reclaimed waters A constant stream of planes passes overhead, deafening the crew of Boat 36826 as they near a line of white buoys strung out over the water north of Hong Kong International Airport.
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This might not matter—plenty of vivid autofictions are strung out along the quivering elastic of a single authorial ego—were it not that the book's central story line concerns the breakup of the narrator's marriage.
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In April, the guys play Coachella for the first time—the only Mexican band on the bill—bringing their pummeling rhythms, strung-out melodies, and lyrics rooted in quotidian ennui to their biggest US crowd yet.
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" Fred is not monogamously inclined, and Stella's obsession with him leads to a volley of painfully poignant sentences the sum of which perfectly captures being strung out on love: "I cursed myself in front of him.
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By the time Christopher Bisbano had saved up enough money to buy the flimsy nylon string guitar the former musician had been saving up for in prison, he was too strung out and depressed to play it.
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The guitars on tracks like "Psychic Tide" and "Form and Force" have their roots in the kickass wails of bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest but trade those bands' candy-coated catchiness for strung-out yearning.
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He also assembled a new band: Pulley, a group largely composed of alumni from bands like Face to Face and Strung Out that had sprung up in the late '80s, early '90s wave of SoCal pop-punk.
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Refinery29 is exclusively debuting a clip from the film in which we see an older, more burned-out Moondog, watching a video of a younger, more strung out Moondog, recite a poem from one of his own collections.
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To wit, Wes and Annalise spend major screen time this week creeping around each other's residences like total weirdos who could honestly just SPEAK TO EACH OTHER instead of passive-aggressively communicating through their strung-out medium, Laurel.
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Over their original 260-year run, the one-time husband-wife duo of Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema created their own inimitable sounds that evolved from strung-out, lo-fi experiments to greasy, Stones-esque, boogie-rock jams.
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So when he gets his young followers—these gawky little white kids strung out on drugs—he starts telling them about the coming race war, black against whites, the blacks are gonna rise up and massacre the whites.
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In others, like "Shovel," he flexes to the occasion; he mostly abandons the short sentences for winding, enjambed ones strung out by conjunctions and prepositions to lead us, with calculated precision, to lines about the nature of haunting.
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Summertime 06's more disorienting, strung-out "Dopeman" and the laid back "Lindo," from Fatts's Chipper Jones Vol 2, were both intriguing, too; the two grew up together and they clearly know how to work around each other's bars.
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Then I also told him, against every instinct of self-protection I've developed over the past three years, that I was arrested too, that I'm a felon, and that before Lily was born I was hopelessly strung out on heroin.
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Some processes that used to be tightly held together are now strung out across the world; some processes that used to be quite separate are now as close as the workers and designers who share the shop floor in Brixworth.
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Just like the club's improbably long run in a fickle industry, Fever was no fly by night operation—it ran the full '230s gamut with wild Thursdays that left many a strung-out raver on Friday mornings from 1992 to 2001.
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You don't have any money and you're strung out, and you're calling people to beg them for a front on like a 20 of heroin and a 10 of coke so you can get high for a couple of hours.
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By November 1983, not four years into his recording career, he had split with the group and was strung out and broke, selling his possessions for pennies on the dollar and making mix tapes for drug dealers in exchange for drugs.
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Shaifer's dad found him a nice place to live and a steady job detailing cars, but within a year he found himself strung out in a crack house, covered in blood, being ordered to the floor at gunpoint by cops.
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" The book was made into a film in 1999 directed by Alison Maclean and starring Billy Crudup as the narrator, described by the critic A. O. Scott in The Times as "like Candide strung out on every drug he can find.
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Watching those videos you'd think EPO and PEDs are so widespread—like, athletes as strung out extras in New Jack City, except in high-altitude training camps—but I never saw anything like that on trips to Kenya or Ethiopia.
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Then my husband (my fiancé at the time) began a new job in the suburbs, and the commute back and forth was too much to deal with; he was tired and strung out, so we moved to make things easier for him.
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It was true that in vulnerable moments—driving home drunk on a Tuesday night; waking up beside a strung-out waitress he'd found online who'd spent half the night crying; Lindsay, screaming at him in public—Matt could be attacked by unwelcome visions.
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At the end of her 4-to-midnight shift, Salt spots a strung-out addict named Shannell who says she took a knife to her man, Big D. The next day, which happens to be Mother's Day, Shannell's daughter finds her murdered.
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I longed for her guaranteed love, her saying, Everything will be all right — a kernel of security I used to carry, but which had been lost somewhere along I-40 while our cats were strung out on cat Xanax, yowling a mournful tune.
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She had achieved a kind of downtown Manhattan notoriety writing articles with headlines like "The Cockroach and the Cokehead" and "Trippy Terror Tuesday: Fantastic Hemp-Based Beauty for Vaguely Consensual + Very Stoned Hippie Sex Cult Orgies," all in deliciously strung-out prose.
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Republicans meanwhile are getting strung out by the constant chaos raging around the Trump presidency — and that they are constantly forced to address, to the detriment of their once-in-a-generation chance to use Republican majorities on Capitol Hill to enact a conservative agenda.
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It's amusing that in the center panel, Anthony has the look of a strung-out Dead Head at the end of two-day acid trip, with his raised index and middle finger looking simultaneously like a Christian hand gesture and a hippie peace sign.
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Whether that direction will help women who loved the just-conceptual-enough minimalist aesthetic of the former Céline designer Phoebe Philo overcome their fears that Mr. Slimane, with his affinity for strung-out indie musicians, will upend their go-to brand remains to be seen.
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STRUNG OUT One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed MeA Memoir By Erin Khar The standard narrative of the opioid epidemic begins in the 1990s, when American pharmaceutical companies flooded the country's mostly rural, mostly working-class areas with potent prescription painkillers.
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Twenty-one years later, Danny Boyle revisits Renton (Ewan McGregor), a Scottish heroin addict, and his strung-out friends Simon (Jonny Lee Miller), Begbie (Robert Carlyle) and Spud (Ewen Bremner), whose mad, euphoric highs have been replaced by the creaky disappointments of middle age.
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Even when he is home in Minneapolis, the city where he landed 26 years ago strung out, broke and with no options left but one more stint in rehab, he is so tightly scheduled he can't find time to call up an old friend for dinner.
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It's a highly stylized, incredibly ambitious film that doesn't quite hit its marks, but it tries hard to illustrate how the modern appetite for sensationalism and spectacle leads to both celebrity and self-destruction — and Portman's performance as a strung-out pop star is appropriately hard-bitten and manic.
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The Bad Batch doesn't waste much time explaining itself, but we can fill in the blanks based on the characters we meet as we follow Arlen through the desert, who range from drug dealers and criminals to immigrants and strung-out wanderers who seem to have lost their minds.
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Before he got sick the second time, he'd been working as part of a crew that did landscaping and gardening for the big estates strung out along the beach and carved out of the hills, a good job, steady, and with a patrón who didn't try to cheat you.
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So many nights, I remember traveling alone and white-knuckling it all the way home, hoping at least a handful of other passengers would be riding with me, praying that some strung-out dude strutting between moving cars (this didn't become illegal until 2005) wouldn't decide to linger in mine.
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Marnell became a New York media celebrity, got fired/quit xoJane when her drug use — the very thing that made her such a lucrative writer — became worrisome to H.R. She started writing a drugs column for Vice, and became a late-night, strung-out, makeup-smeared fixture of Alphabet City.
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Photograph by Ulysses Ortega for The New Yorker Today, Todos Santos is a tangle of "remittance houses," several stories tall, built of concrete block, with columns and fanciful towers, blue reflective windows, American and Guatemalan flags painted along the trim, and ears of corn strung out to dry on balconies.
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She was already working with music producers, had just played a rich party girl in the indie film Sweetie Pie, and went on to play a "strung-out supermodel" in the 5-minute short QIK2JDG (2002) and a "female club-goer" in the live-action adaptation of The Cat in the Hat (22007).
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If the thought of few turns on that slide aren't enough to get you booking your next trip, the resort also has an outdoor movie theater, over-water villas with private saltwater pools (just in case you get sick of that whole ocean thing), and hammocks strung out over the calm sea.
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Throughout the "Twilight" saga, Pattinson had the low lids and the see-through pallor of the eternally unslept; here, as a two-bit criminal named Connie Nikas, his strung-out stare is that of a man for whom sleep would be not so much a blessing as a waste of a night.
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LIMINALITY "Liminal" is a joke-word now, and yeah, it's overused, and yeah, it's about as strung-out as "dialectic" for the academia-lite that so much online language is leaning on, but it's where we live, not just "in between" or "both" but always on the edge (and still taking up too much space).
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In 2009, when Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse was hospitalized two years before her death, after her problems with drugs and alcohol had become well known, the gossip blog Oh No They Didn't ran the news with an unflattering picture of a strung-out-looking Winehouse at the top and much disgust from commenters at the bottom.
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But Riverdale, bless its batshit heart, gives us the gift of ending "The Midnight Club" with Jughead locked in an underground survivalist bunker, strung out on Gryphons and Gargoyles (in this universe, role-playing games apparently have known hallucinogenic properties), raving about how he's about to ascend to the next level and meet the Gargoyle King.
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Part of what made Trainspotting such a barnburner in 1996 was its stylistic flourishes, which owed more to music videos than to traditional cinema: unusual camera angles, fast cutting, split-second freeze frames, whole sequences of pure magical realism aping the feeling of being strung out (Mark crawling into a feces-filled toilet being one of the most famous).
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"Historically, women have been taught they can't express anger; we've been taught to internalize anger, pain, shame, because anger in a women has equated to crazy, has equated to being unlikable and undesirable," said Erin Khar, whose sobriety memoir involving heroin, "Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me," will be published next year.
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After two years of convoluted, arduous and complex negotiations involving the United States and the DPRK, as well as South Korea, Japan, Russia and, most importantly, China in the Six Party Talks, the Kim Jong Il regime struck a series of bargains but then calculatingly strung out Washington without full implementation of the deals to curtail plutonium reprocessing and nuclear bomb-making.
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In the interlinked stories in "Jesus' Son" (1992), the narrator traverses the United States, moving through a grim, fluorescent-lit landscape of rundown bars and one-night cheap motels, and meeting a succession of misfits as alienated and desperate as himself — people who often seem like crazy, drug-addled relatives of the lost souls in Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio" or strung-out exiles from a Lou Reed album.
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Trump picked his enemies not wisely but too well, then as now, and found himself hooked on Twitter in the same way that a lot of other people find themselves strung out on their social media of choice—first because he wanted to make himself look impressive and happy, and then because he needed to destroy anyone and everyone who'd ever made him look or feel less so, and then, finally, because his life had shrunk to the point that it fit comfortably within a phone's screen.
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