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When describing how drunk I get, I use my own scale that my friends and I devised:

"Buzzed" is after a few beers, when I can feel the alcohol affecting me, but I think I can still drive reasonably well. My brain generally works like normal, though perhaps a little slow.

"Inebriated" is when I start feeling good, but I know my ability to drive is impaired, and so I give the keys away. I begin to doubt my ability to make good judgments. I am usually a much nicer person at this stage of...

As an alternative to the "how many beers" or the "1 through 10″ rating system, my friends and I came up with the following 5-star scale to rank physical appearance only. There are three things that you must remember before using this scale:

1) Though personality is very important in evaluating females, in this scale it can only hurt. Too many men are the type that once they start fucking, they think the girl is cool because she likes having sex with them, and want to raise a woman's rating...

I get so many emails asking me the authors that influenced me or what I books I recommend, so I decided to list them here. These are not necessarily the "best" books I've ever read, but they are the ones that've had the most personal impact on me. Each book on this list, I've read at least three times:

1. Confederacy of Dunces: My favorite fiction book, and probably my favorite book ever. This is the type of book that humbles you, and makes you understand how great writing can be.

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Last week I turned in the final draft of Assholes Finish First to my publisher (pre-order it here), and after copy editing and layout, it's off to the printer. Everything is set to go for the September 28th release. To answer a few of the questions I've been getting:

A lot–about 80-90% of it is brand new. IHTSBIH was only about 50% new–the rest had previously appeared on my website. There are a few things from the website–e.g., "The Midget...

The questions I get most on this site revolve around writing. People ask me how to write, how they can write like me, how to get a career in writing, etc, etc.

I am a writer, I guess, but not in any traditional sense, so my advice should be taken with caution. I've never taken a creative writing class, never had any "formal" training in writing beyond six years of graduate and post-graduate academic papers and English classes, I do not hang out in writing circles, and don't have any plans on g...

Originally posted on The Huffington Post:

I'll never forget the moment I first heard the word "fratire." I was on the phone with Warren St. John answering some follow-up questions for his piece on me and Maddox that was to run in the NY Times Style Section. I am paraphrasing, but I think the conversation went like this:

Tucker "So Warren, you going to give our fledging genre a cool new name?"

Warren "Yeah, I was thinking of calling it 'fratire."

Tucker "Great Holy Jesus. Warren, that is awful...

I used to think that Red Bull was the most destructive invention of the past 50 years. I was wrong. Red Bull has been usurped by the portable alcohol breathalyzer. The same device that cops have been using for 10 years to conduct field sobriety tests is now offered by the Sharper Image for $99. It is the size and shape of a small cell phone with a clear round tube sticking up from the top, almost like an antenna. One blows into the tube, and a few seconds later a Blood Alcohol Content ...

I spent the summer between my 2nd and 3rd year of college suckling on the parental teat in South Florida. It was the absolute prime of my "do anything to get laid" phase. I was recently freed from a 4-year long-distance relationship that began in high school and I wanted nothing more than to have sex with as many girls as possible.

Most of the things I did that summer are not story-worthy; you can only tell the same, "I got drunk on Dom and fucked this hottie" story so many times before ...

So, the day many of you have been waiting for, the official announcement of my next book. The press release:

GALLERY BOOKS TO PUBLISH TUCKER MAX'S NEW BOOK

NEW YORK, January 28, 2010 - Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon &

Times Best Seller and has spent over 150 weeks on that list over five
calendar years. There are...

[image error]Like I explained on Monday, our distribution strategy is a typical indie one: 125 screens the first weekend, 300 or so the second, then wide expansion into about 2000 by the third weekend, which will cover the whole country.

This will mean that for some of you, the movie won't be getting to your city for two or three more weeks. This sucks, but please understand why we are doing it this way: It's because this is how we have to do it in order to give the movie the best chance of success given t...