Morning Afters
October 30, 2008, Matthew Good I find myself, sunglasses strapped to my head in the shade, in the grips a hangover. Yesterday was one of my close friend’s 40th birthday. A few weeks ago his wife contacted me and asked if I would secretly fly into town – they live in Las Vegas – and play a few songs at his party. So I got on a plane yesterday morning, after a nice visit with Dan Lilly at the airport, and came down.
It was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, my penchant for straight vodka on the rocks isn’t all that fun the next day.
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Have another one on the rocks right now. That’ll straighten you right up.
What kind of vodka by the way? Wyborwa?
I asked for it twice at two different place - no go.
Ya - I’m that way with tequila. I don’t know what happens. A couple of beers, get into the tequila, and next think you know I’m naked. Now if I’m at the cottage with friends that is one thing. “Oh look…dumb ass has been into the Cuervo again…he is nekid” However, me, tequila, and a large urban area with a lot of potential victims of my un-sober buck-ass naked self is just not a good mix. *my apologies to those of you out there who are primarily “visual’ people and who will have difficulty sleeping tonight.
**and to authorities in Ottawa: I did not want to come back to your stupid city anyway so there!
b.
HAHAHAHAHA @ Brian Smart…you and i both, dude!
hey matt…this reminds me of something….
……. ……
MATT AND TODD GO TO VEGAS WITH A STRIPPER THAT SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS FOR REASONS OF LIBEL!
yeah, thats it…
…so the point was I would normally avoid tequila. However having just read that Ben Mulroney is getting married I figure we find out where the nuptuals are, grab a bottle of Cuervo, and let me go to work…..
thats the best idea i’ve heard in ages!
then i could get my copy of the mulroney tapes signed…oh wait…i forgot brian mulroney has a big hate on for peter c. newman…
hee hee
Hmm. Sounds pretty much like a regular Friday night for me.
Plenty of water, a cool dark room and a silken-fingered hand maiden to dampen your throbbing brow…
And stick to just the Grey Goose in future. :o)
Ah, Tequila…we really shouldn’t be posting things like this on a Thursday afternoon, it makes Friday night seem toooo far away!
@ Brian - I have the same problem myself with the Cuervo (a few beers pass me the bottle kind of deal) - haven’t run around naked yet but I’m sure that fun will catch up with me soon (it would seem that Tequila proves to me over and over again what a creative being I can be when I have no inhibitions! :)
i always thought panty remover was lemon gin…
but i stand corrected (and panty-less!) lol…
Straight vodka makes my head ache just thinking about it. My hangover cure is lots of grease and salt (omelette and home fries do the trick nicely), plus about a gallon of OJ. Of course, staying in bed until at least the next night also has its benefits.
Brian– Jesus, that made me laugh. I’m okay with tequila, myself. The only time I’ve removed clothes in public while drinking, it was while drinking copious amounts of wine, and it seems to have been a one-time deal… thank god, because I don’t think life would be worth living if I had to ban myself from wine. (And, in my defense, I had spilled veggie dip all the way down my shirt… what else was I supposed to do, walk around all night in STAINED CLOTHING? How embarrassing.)
Wow! Some people are lucky. I would like you to sing at my 40th, in just over a year an a bit. Somehow I do not think that will happen, so next week when you FINALLY come to Medicine Hat, I will pretend we travel in time and pay a little tribute to myself.
Glad you had a great time.
Keep the spirit!!!
Dispite the hangover, sounds like you had a good time. Just relax and don’t move to fast. lol
You, sir, are a thing of legend.
Here’s hoping you didn’t wake up next to someone who last night you thought was a woman…
=)
drink SKYY vodka. I hear it was developed by a doctor, who like to drink, to prevent hangovers.
Vodka is no longer my friend, because the day after we hang out.. I feel like shit!
My grandfather always said the morning after (do thick accent from Norther Ireland here):
“Jaysus…if I’d known I was going to be this fookin’ thirsty I ‘da drank more last night”
I try to keep myself under control, however, the few bad times have been due to no particular choice of alcohol. I’ve mixed, which does not matter according to a bartender at The Weston (I think) downtown Vancouver. He says alcohol is alcohol.
Anyhow, I was in my worst state from 8.5 draft beers and 6 shots of Sambucca. I did get pretty messed up on my 30th BDay courtesy of some friends in University (I was in university from 25 - 30yrs old, given I act like I am 10 yrs younger, I fit right in). But at least it wasn’t as messy as the other time.
I find I get no hangovers, even when I was a little too heavy into the stuff, with a good gin (like Hendrick’s). But I try to remember to drink water before bed, no matter how non-thirsty I am. I also don’t get hangovers from wine or vodka, but it is probably just luck.
I’ve never ran around naked, thankfully, I usually just talk tech or music or both, more and more.
Always good to see you bud. My mom’s coming up for xmas. Maybe I’ll have her pop down to Nogales, Mexico for a bottle of Oso Negro Vodka. That stuff’s real sippin’ liquor.
@Pharmingfordissidence- EXACTLY what I was thinking- loved that one!
Nice b-day gift for the buddy Matt, mines in January if you’re bored. I’ll be in Mexico, but hell, flights are cheap.
What a lovely birthday surprise- and a nice little escape for you too!!
Hangovers suck: There are a few things you can do to help prevent them though:
Begin endocrinology lesson:
Take zinc (Tabs, or something containing high amounts, ie food) before and after you drink. Have you ever heard of people saying - eat oysters to cure hangovers?? Well, by the time you’re hungover it’s too late!
Zinc helps produce alcohol dehydrogenase in your body, which helps breakdown alcohol and turn it into non- harmful substances in your body.
The reason you get a hangover is because there isn’t enough of the enyme to break down the amount of booze you consumed- hense when alcoholics are proscribed ant- abuse and such drugs. They keep your enzyme level so low, that if you consume any alcohol -> BOOM, instant sickness.
So booze is booze, no matter how you slice it folks. Go for clear, double or triple distilled spirits, like gin or vodka. High quality is better, obviously….AND don’t mix with sugary nastiness. Lemon and soda or tonic and lime.
Also, drinks containing high amounts of sugar or red wine for instance, contain sulfites…Sulfites cause an almost allergic reaction in many people are that lead to crazy headaches..
Okay….rant over…
Tequila has always been the killer for me. I could have 6 vodka drinks and be fine, but one shot of tequila after that and I’m playing strip poker with one other girl and about 8 guys. It was a rough night. And an even rougher next 2 days. So now I avoid it like the plague.
Be happy about your surroundings: it snowed here yesterday. And as much as I love winter, it’s still October! Though I have to say, I’d take snow over freezing rain anyday.
Straight vodka makes my head ache just thinking about it.
Ditto, only my vodka headaches weren’t a result of a hangover. For the longest time, even three sips of a Smirnoff Ice would send me into a migraine. Don’t know why, really; but what I do know is that after about 3 years of this occurrence, I don’t get them anymore.
Last time I got pissed drunk it was off rum and Bailey’s. Don’t ask, but just know it was in perfect timing with my birthday and because I couldn’t retain water for most of the day the next day, work was right out. :p
Vodka is the devil, I’m only now able to drink it again after one memorable party.
Tequila? Now there’s always a a good nekkid story when having consumed tequila.
Grey Goose on the rocks. My fave….
Feel better.
I watched with a combination of fascination and certain knowledge of an impending horror when my fourth Jack on the rocks was poured straight overflowing to the top of a pint glass the other night. I prefer Jack holding the ice playfully and the aroma floating mistfully below the rim. I can come back for more later. There’s no need to drown the poor commercial ice cubes so they perish straight away.
I asked for a straw.
Thankfully, I’m making hangovers an increasingly rare occurrence. My last heavy drinking night ended with me leaving a goofy message on my friend’s phone (who had to be hauled home after drinking much more than me) while waiting for the streetcar, forgetting I had left that message and leaving a second one wondering whether I’d left the first one.
And the time before that was my bachelor party in the summer, which is its own excuse. We visited two breweries here in Toronto (Amsterdam and Steam Whistle). At Steam Whistle one of the tour options includes a six-pack that you can take home. So once we left the second brewery, many many beers later, all 11 of us, each with a six-pack, went to the islands to sit on the beach. Madness.
It’s tequila that tends to leave me most hungover. I tend to be able to stomach vodka pretty well, fine after sometimes only a couple of hours of rest. Overall though, I’m pretty abstemious and usually avoid drinking altogether except for a major celebration or big party.
blech.. Im like that with Jack Daniels..
I wonder what it is about alcohol that makes us lose ourselves in our *real* identity’s.
@KET that is hilarious.. you cant have a food stain on your shirt. That is a fashion no-no.
@Jane Smith.. Grey Goose is the way to go if your gonna drink vodka.