Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Acidcasting

Tapestry is the CBC's hour of religion exploration, but last week there was an hour of an interview with Don Lattin, who talks about his book on the Harvard folks who popularized acid.

In possibly related news, Telepathic Ed remembers his parakeet.

Also Jerry Seinfeld is an old guy talking about Lady Gaga:
Seinfeld, 56, also said when asked about the June 10 incident, "I wish her the best. You take one 'A' off of that and you've got gag. I don't know what these young people think or how they promote their careers."
And the story of Cala Boca Galvão, which may tell someone to shut up, or might be a Lady Gaga single, or a campaign to save a rare bird.

14 comments:

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

And killed the 50's!

Take that, Beaver!
~

mikey said...

Really? Those doods did it?

I always kinda thought it popularized itself. Guy gave me a sugar cube one night at a church dance (well, we called it that - psychedelic music and light show at this church in Novato) and I was pretty well sold on it from then on...

Substance McGravitas said...

I always kinda thought it popularized itself.

I imagine the first smoker had to be out of his mind on something else to stick fire in his face.

ckc (not kc) said...

A Little While Later He Moved Up to My Brother Bob's in Cleveland, Well, He Had Rebelled Against My Regime Setting Himself Up as the Boss in Our Domicile, Up in Cleveland There Was a More Natural Flow to Things of Two Happy Bachelors.

...this brought a tear to my eye - two happy bachelors in Cleveland!

tigris said...

I imagine the first smoker had to be out of his mind on something else to stick fire in his face.

There'd probably have been several millennia of throwing psychoactive combustables on fires by that point. Maybe hollow reeds were used to focus smoke delivery, and over time these became pipes?

Substance McGravitas said...

The sweat lodge or the pipe?

Another Kiwi said...

I am a grumpy old bastard and I just want to know whether or not I am supposed to be happy that a meaningless phrase turned into a non existent record and a non existent bird saving not happening thing, because fo twitter.

Substance McGravitas said...

The phrase has meaning! It's telling someone to shut up. It is therefore grumpy-old-bastard preapproved.

M. Bouffant said...

More Hippies!!

had to be out of his mind on something else to stick fire in his face

Not being performed properly at all!

Smut Clyde said...

Have you read "Storming Heaven"?

Smut Clyde said...

The sweat lodge or the pipe?

Were you thinking of the Scythians and their Cannabis indica sweat-lodges?

Substance McGravitas said...

Have you read "Storming Heaven"?

In fact I believe we have backslapped over Storming Heaven at this very site.

Substance McGravitas said...

Were you thinking of the Scythians and their Cannabis indica sweat-lodges?

No, I read Herodotus so that I could forget everything interesting in it.

Smut Clyde said...

In fact I believe we have backslapped over Storming Heaven at this very site.

I cannot remember that discussion, but drug-related amnesia is not dispositive.