"A Few Too Many" in the New Yorker

For Alex: the New Yorker has an exhaustive article on hangovers, both the causes and the cures:

There are other non-ingested remedies. Amazon will sell you a refrigeratable eye mask, an aromatherapy inhaler, and a vinyl statue of St. Vivian, said to be the patron saint of the hung over. She comes with a stand and a special prayer.

Comments

[alex]

thanks!

[Kevin Goess]

From a review of the writings of Kingsley Amis, a big cocktail guy in the Seventies:

...all sorts of interesting experiments were under way in the clubhouse. Experiments with hangovers, for example, kingly ones: “I took bicarbonate with a vodka chaser. My companion said, ‘Let’s see what’s happening in your stomach,’ and poured the remnant of the vodka into the remnant of the bicarbonate solution. The mixture turned black and gave off smoke.”

I have the impression you'd like the rest of this book:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/books/review/Browning-t.html?ex=1369972800&en=915a9aab1d54c136&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

[MatthewAdam]

You may attend a party where strange customs prevail.