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LeilaPM's avatar

I love this Substack. Any chance your book will be published in English? I’d really like to read it.

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Morten Pape's avatar

Me also!

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John Merigliano's avatar

Me too. Second time I’m asking 😀

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Menchu's avatar

I would also love to read Andrea’s book in English

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Martin Swann's avatar

Excellent as always thank you for sharing your experience with the world. As for puking on your laptop hell I’m proud of ya 😂

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Michael Taylor's avatar

Your best writing yet. Which is high praise considering how constantly good you are. Made me feel better about sneaking and extra gluten free brownie this morning. I'm curious have you read Paul Bowles book The Sheltering Sky? Given your excellent literary taste I would be curious what you think. I am rereading it for the first time since Jr high and WOW!

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Ron Ecstasy's avatar

Hell yeah, thank you for allowing me to crack a mid-day pilsner. After one sip, I've gone off the rails and am ranting about the longevity guys (usually always guys right?) who spend their life in denial of actually living, while destroying their bodies in the name of preservation. All this effort to extend life without ever asking what makes life worth living in the first place!

Und auch, vielen dank fuer deine podcast mit Boris. Es hilft mir sehr mit mein deutsch ueben, weil ich nie deutsch in Detroit hoere, nur wenn wir unsere technofestival haben lol. Prost! 🍻

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Dejan's avatar

Ziveli french fry!

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BARBARA BRADLEY's avatar

You are writing a book? Or have you already written a book? What is the title?

I have to have something to read while I sip a glass of white wine and wait for my headache😉

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Wolf Krusemark Von Essen's avatar

How about excess in moderation?

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Cameron Venables's avatar

Please send magnesium asap LOL

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Hilary's avatar

It makes me so happy that you call it Andy Murray wine too!!!

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Adrian Brune's avatar

Brilliant commentary and analogy.

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Raphaelitsch's avatar

Met my neighbours on the stairs yesterday, them coming back from cycling to Oggau. Told them how incredibly clever the local winemaker couple are since their bottles turn up everywhere on the planet. Tja.

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T A's avatar

Hey, Andrea: unrelated to your post, but I don't know who else to ask who'd know the answer, so, "What's up with the fully disgusting and gross tossing of wet wrist and head bands in to the crowd after a player wins a match?" If someone threw one of those things at me, even if it was you doing the throwing, I'd dodge and run.

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Andy Sibbett's avatar

Petko is our Queen

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Weston Parker's avatar

Very good Andrea, thank you.

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T A's avatar

As an American, I think I can speak for all Yanks when I say I wish you'd named the terrible snacks. Would make fab insight into the childhood cravings a Euro born adult. As for the content, there's quite a dash of Kipling's "If" there, where he advises his son to live a life built on moderation. Kipling says to move through life with composure, and to always exercise self-control, integrity, and humility. This means never letting "Triumph" nor "Disaster"—events either good or bad—go to one's head. Easy to say, eh, but not so much to dwell inside.

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Sung J. Woo's avatar

"If being healthy means being successful, does being sick make you a failure?"

Absolutely not. I just means you've lived an interesting life. :)

Random musings:

1) That wine bottle has both the word "rot" and "gut" -- rotgut wine, also known as fortified wine, also known as Mad Dog (MD 20/20) over here in the USA, is not to be trifled with!

2) If you haven't checked out Live from New York, it's the best book on SNL history. The way it is written is just really great -- the crosscutting almost makes it feel like the interviewees were in the same room.

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