ZAKK WYLDE: “THE DOCTOR TOLD ME GRAVITY PREVENTS ME FROM FLOATING AWAY!”

Here’s a fun pull-quote from a recent Zakk Wylde interview, regarding the blood clots doctors found in his leg last year:

“The doc was like, ‘You have, what, a drink a day?’ Six? 12? A case?’ I’m like, ‘It’s a liquid diet’… I mean, I’d drink beer while lifting weights. That’s Black Label Society style for you right there. But the doc told me if I kept this up, I’d be dead by the time I was 50. So I stopped drinking. No big deal.”

Wow, dude. You really needed a doctor to tell you you can’t subsist on a liquid diet? When my doctor walks into the room, I can pretty much hit all the high points before he even opens his mouth — lower your cholesterol, exercise more, stop playing with yourself so much, etc. (Oddly enough, my doctor has never ever been expressed concern over my weed intake. Neither has my shrink. Go figure.) Back when my diet consisted of bacon for breakfast, burgers for lunch, and cheese steak for dinner, I was never like, “Mm, this is good health food!” I was 110% aware that I was slowly killing myself with the delicious tastes of clogged arteries.

I’m glad Zakk has sobered up and is gonna live past 50, but… sheesh, dude!

-AR

[via Blabbermouf]