The New York City Journals, Part VI: It's Not a Habit; It's Cool; I Feel Alive

We've lived in bars, danced on tables, and collected grudges like antique dolls in a curio cabinet until each one came to life and haunted us to death

The word “addiction" comes from the Latin word "addicere", which means enslaved by or bound to.

Remember Gollum's unhealthy obsession with the ring? It read like a motorized compulsion—a soul-sucking, til-death-do-us-part love affair hijacking the mind, governing the hand. You know the story; there's no need to name it. And it's not a tale of reckless su…