Reader: Booze Really Does Make for a Better Writer

Papa just needed to take the edge off, 'sall.

Who cares if Seattle Weekly staff writer Rick Anderson is technically not just a reader? The man was inking columns in the P-I before some of us were a twinkle in our father's you know the rest. Here's Rick, responding to On the eP-I's Birthday, One Question Lingers: Where's Robert Jamieson?

"As an expert in the field, I've found that beer is good for columnists.

Columns were more readable when their writers were in their cups. Me included.

You tend to go places you otherwise wouldn't venture, stumbling across stories you'd never have conceived. In bars, often. Alas, it's frowned on now. That's why columnists aren't so much fun to read today.

Have a beer, sell some papers."