Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Working on Alcoholism Memoir
September 25th, 2008 by Evil Beet
Buzz Aldrin, the first man on the moon, is releasing a memoir next year — and it’s not just about space-walking.
The astronaut’s memoir will focus as much on his struggles with alcoholism and depression as it will on his space days.
“From the pinnacle of Apollo, my greatest challenge became the human one — overcoming alcoholism and living beyond depression — a challenge that required more courage and determination than going to the moon,” Aldrin, 78, said in a statement issued Thursday by his publisher.
“I was 39 years of age, had achieved my grandest goal, and should have been on top of the world, but there were no roadmaps, and few signposts if any along the way that could lead me out of the quagmire into which I had tumbled. For 10 years, I floundered.”
The book will be called Magnificent Desolation: The Long Road Home from the Moon.
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No thanks,
I’m holding out for or Ed McMahon’s memoir: The Pimp Chronicles: Mind on My Money, Money on my Mind.
oh shit, here it comes again. hey EVERYBODY, listen up! beet put the word BUZZ in the same sentence as ALCOHOL. it’s a joke, see? i’ve decided to go ahead and make sure everyone knows this early on before the idiots pull up on their special bus and want to type.
based on this amazing image beet found, it wasn’t just moon rocks our national hero buzz aldrin brought back from his moon walk. not to scare you, but if someone doesn’t hurry and shoot that damn extraterrestrial posing with buzz it’s going to unhinge it’s fucking jaws and swallow the poor old drunk whole.
I’m glad people are coming out about depression. It isn’t easy to confront and being a victim of depression myself I appreciate it.
You would have to be an alcoholic to stick your dick in that
Come on,guys! It’s kind of nice to see an older man that has a wife as old as he is! At least he didn’t dump her for some 25 yr. old bimbo like many men seem to do. I say congratulations!
i thought maybe he was doing some old school Batman promotions.
i mean look, hes standing next to the joker.
Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
That’s EXACTLY what Denise Richards will look like in 40 years.
If I were Perez, I’d scribble “Why So Serious?” next to Mrs. Aldrin’s face.
@TSS
AWESOME!
Self indulgence
@ Nobody
Hey FUCK YOU MAN…. I don’t care what all the history books say or what all of our teachers taught us in 2nd grade….If Beet says Buzz was the first person on the moon, then he was damn it!….. She has an MBA.
TSS- please make me laugh real hard to day…its one of them days where i’m in the mood to just beat the hell out of somebody
I guess he married an alien he meet while he was there. But great job at making her look more human
Jesus H. Christ – why is it so hard for some women to just age? Plastic surgery may work for awhile but at this point it def works against you!
Buzz Aldrin is still alive?? Didn’t know that but am of course pleased to hear he is!
Oh.My.God.
Seriously. That lady. Fuckin’ scary.
hi there i htink thinggs going well