Ed Oser: Doing The Stories Jared Paben Was Never Allowed To
I feel I’m constitutionally (or is that mission statementally?) required to link to Ed Oser’s article on partying in the Emerald today. There’s no hard reporting or investigatory work here, but there doesn’t need to be. It’s just a mildly entertaining article about competetive drinking. So kudos to Oser for writing it.
What’s funny, however, is that the article is accompanied by two additional pieces, one of which quotes an AA member as saying that competetive drinking is “so, so dangerous” and the other which states that “there’s thousands of times when [partying] hasn’t been fun.” Perhaps the Ol’ Dirty’s editors realized that they would take some flack from neo-prohibitionists for daring to write about people who drank and had a good time without dying in a car wreck or raping someone. The two other pieces seem forced and, worse yet, are boring.
Also, I’m not the Ian mentioned in the story. I don’t do keg stands. At least not while ODE photographers are around.
Ha! I was never allowed to do them because it would have been a conflict of interest. If I wasn’t organizing competitive drinking, I was winning the competitions.
I hope you’re well, Ian. Give me a ring one of these days and we’ll chat.