the gay bulimic alcoholic

omg, talk about an intervention trifecta...

first of all, my boys aren't in nearly enough episodes ~ i think asa was only like the second one i've seen. and boy was he G-A-Y. did you see those pictures of him from elementary school? i'm pretty sure that he was wearing mascara and just a little bit of cream blush (or "rouge" as my mum used to call it.)  

secondly, he had an eating disorder, and i always find those episodes fascinating ~ especially the bulimics. however, i thought it was interesting that he was the first puker that actually used the loo, instead of hiding ziploc bags full of vomit in the back of his closet until the weekly midnight run to the dumpster down the street.

lastly, he was a good old fashioned drunk. the drunks are always the most fun to watch! they are hilarious, or at least think they are hilarious. moreover, who hasn't experienced that super sloppy drunken stupor at least once in their life? (yes, i know who reads this blog, and yes, that applies to 99% of you. i know, i was probably right there with you.)

on the other hand, i think the heroin addicts are way too chill and always seem to be napping whenever they aren't trying to score. i also hate watching the blood seep back into the syringe. *bleck*. then the crystal meth babies are wayyyy too crazy and hard to watch ~ some of them border on downright annoying. i hardly root for any of them to succeed.

ok, back to asa: the only downer to my viewing pleasure was that i actually made chicken and black beans for dinner (an extremely rare occurrence, mind you), then sat down to watch the show. and what was the first scene?  asa sitting down to the same dinner, only to hurl it back up five minutes later. that was admittedly a bit knarly. 

as a little side note here, who binges on CHICKEN? i'm not quite sure what the logic behind that is. chicken is what you eat when you're being good, not going off of the deep end.  not to mention, my hairdresser use to be bullemic and she said that you have to go for things that are easy on the back end ~ pudding, ice cream, brownies, etc. (hey! a little advice out there for all of you aspiring barfers!)

but seriously, i think the BEST part of the episode was his friend victor. girlfriend was dramatic! i especially liked how during the intervention, he went from openly weeping while reading his letter, to getting all tough love on asa's ass: "um, excuse me, missy!  this is NOT an OPTION. you are a hot tranny mess! and you are GOING because you need *bleep* HELP. snap!"

i want victor to be at ALL of the interventions from now on.  in fact, maybe he should hurry up and get his sobriety degree or whatever those people have and just be the 4th interventionist on that show.

omg, that would be awesome.