alky

Relief that these alkies were not mine to save.

She has some of the bruised sweetness of Denis Johnson’s alkies and junkies in “Jesus’ Son.”

“I wanted an old alky. I got a young jew from New York-and he was magnificent,” Brooks said in another interview.

The eventual result from the alky is supposed to be a high-octane, clean-burning gasoline with anti-knock properties.

In Hollywood, a town that provided a lot of competition for shenanigans, he was one of the foremost cokies, alkies, crazies.