Naked, Drunk, and Very Tired

What I learned from trying to live like a genius

Eric Spitznagel
Forge
Published in
17 min readNov 29, 2018

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It’s 6 o’clock in the morning, and my privates are the temperature and color of a blue raspberry snow cone.

I’m sitting on a deck chair on my open-air back porch, which overlooks an alley and half a dozen houses. It’s November in Chicago and the weather is a nippy 24 degrees. On any other day, I wouldn’t…

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Eric Spitznagel
Forge
Writer for

I’m a writer and editor, and the author of a dozen or so books, including "Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past."