November 28, 2010
A few days ago I finished reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. I’ve seen the movie by the same name countless times, but never without smoking a bowl or ten prior. In later [pot free] years I would on several occasions start to put on the DVD – and in […]
April 25, 2010
I’ve referenced Peter Conners’s Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead in several of my posts of late. There’s good reason for that, the obvious being that I was reading it at the time. Why it became such a reference point for me is thanks to the vivid and extensive portrait Conners […]
April 16, 2010
I’ve often heard the phrases, “Karma’s a bitch” or “what goes around comes around.” The term ‘Karma’ and its tales of biting you in the ass, are thrown around pretty freely and usually when it’s convenient to do so. Yet, I don’t think too many people really follow the principles of Karma. Hell, if I […]
April 8, 2010
Tonight I just want to share something I had never heard about before and thought was an interesting new perspective on the Grateful Dead and the infamous drug bust at 710 Ashbury. Share and discuss… The Day They Busted the Grateful Dead by Richard Brautigan The day they busted the Grateful Dead rain stormed against […]
March 24, 2010
I started reading Robert Greenfield’s Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia a few days ago. Sixty pages in and I’m fascinated by how little I know. It’s an interesting thing to suddenly learn so much about someone or something you feel so close to. But, I’ll save my new facts and figures for […]
October 20, 2011
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