Snort this and weep

Ah, rats. Not only did the Old Hag get to this way before I did, she's got the infinitely better headline.
Here's Alex Beam on performance-enhancers for writers.
"I reached Buckley on the phone just as he was about to inhale.
'Right now I'm taking Thackeray, a great performance enhancer. I've been taking Balzac for some years, although you do have to be wary of the French products -- they can be very exotic. And you want to be careful with the generic Canadian performance enhancers, like Robertson Davies. You just don't know where they've been.'"