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The Epic Tour: A Grateful Dead… Video Game?
This morning I checked my Grateful Dead news (from an official, exclusive source that goes by the name of “Google”) and was grabbed by a headline that announced an upcoming Grateful Dead video game titled The Epic Tour, to be released online and for mobile devices. This may not be news to you as it […]
Monsters and Deadheads
May 31, 2011
As I’ve confessed before, I’m kind of clueless when it comes to new music. It’s not that I don’t like the music of our day; it’s really more that I was taught, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” What comes out of my iPod ain’t broke so I haven’t been too inclined to seek […]
The Plight of the Hippies
August 4, 2010
A few months ago when I was researching the CIA-led LSD tests of the 50′s and 60′s (blogged about here), I came across a 1967 CBS short documentary with journalist Harry Reasoner. How ironic his last name becomes after watching what I thought was a pretty unreasonable depiction of the hippie generation. Watch for […]
A Picture Book for Deadheads
May 13, 2010
One week of vacation and a killer first day back at the office have stolen me from my beloved blog, but now I’m back… sort of. I don’t have much wit or wisdom to impart at the moment, but I do have something to oogle at. Sometimes, sentences and punctuations are too much and a […]
Cinco de Mayo and Warlocks
May 5, 2010
We all know that Cinco de Mayo celebrates the…. wait, what the hell does it celebrate? This can’t just be an excuse to pound margaritas and indulge our ourselves in a vat of nacho cheese, right? Well, I for one won’t stand for that. Let’s end this mindless celebration right now and acknowledge what this […]
Cartoon Sunday With The Grateful Dead
May 2, 2010
I’ve managed to reference Disney once in talking about the Grateful Dead, and I’m happy to be able to do it again. In my research on the real life Casey Jones I came across a 1950 Disney cartoon called, The Brave Engineer. Obviously, as the date tells us, this cartoon refers to the original song, […]
The Case of Casey Jones
April 29, 2010
In the third grade a fellow classmate dressed in a worn, white t-shirt brought in a tape cassette made specially for me and labeled, ‘Casey Jones’, the hit Grateful Dead song. Fifteen or so years later and that’s still the sweetest thing a boy has ever done for me. I wish I could remember his […]
Book Review: Growing Up Dead
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 […]
Taking It A Little Bit 'Furthur'
April 23, 2010
I have to apologize for being a day late on my obligatory Earth Day post. How about we call it Earth Week, and forgive the busy blogger? Even better, let’s axe the holiday, but keep its traditions year round. Don’t worry, that’s about as preachy as I’ll get for tonight. What I’d really like to […]
Operation Midnight Climax
April 11, 2010
I doubt this is what you think it is. Although, if what you’re thinking has anything to do with prostitutes, a sleazy room, and hard drugs; then you’re not too far off. This afternoon I stumbled upon some very interesting true stories about just those things. Turns out, CIA human-subject drug experiments like, “Operation Midnight […]
December 19, 2011
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