Article: What do crack cocaine and journalism have in common?(ON DAVID CARR ON DAVID CARR)

DAVID CARR HAS ALWAYS HAD A KNACK for collecting pals and devotees--at his 30th-birthday party in Minneapolis, more than 100 people surprised him wearing T-shirts saying I AM A CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND OF DAVID CARR--but there's still no denying the guy takes some getting used to. For a brief while, David worked at New York Magazine, and while I eventually became one of the legions who adored him, the first twenty minutes of our first social encounter were excruciating. David seems to have blind spots directly in front of him--he doesn't quite seen you when he talks--and during that first lunch, we couldn't figure out a way to connect, with each beat in our dialogue ...

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