Author: Richard Metzger Archives: 10/2010

Colorado residents with a doctor’s prescription for medical cannabis will soon be able to purchase a mass-produced THC-infused soft drink that comes in several flavors.…

Today is the 53rd birthday of the great Mister Julian Cope! As regular readers of this blog know, I think Cope is one of the…

Photo by Kevork Djansezian from The Big Picture According to several polls, the presence of marijuana reform initiatives on the ballet in states in the…

Republishing an entire article here from the Las Vegas Sun because it’s an eloquent discussion of how things got to where they are in Nevada,…

The eccentric English mage, poet, painter and gourmet rice chef would be 135-years-old today if, um, he could like live forever or something… I’m often…

There is no schadenfreude quite like Republican schadenfreude, especially when there is a male prostitute, hooker or “Nazi hobby” in the mix (note CNN’s lower…

English occultist Aleister Crowley wasn’t merely a poet, painter and the Great Beast 666, he was also an aspiring chef! That’s right and if you’d…

A poem by Ted Hughes, considered lost, was published today in The New Statesman magazine after being discovered in the British Museum among his papers.…

This morning, on Yoko Ono’s Twitter feed, I learned of this very cool art project she did in memory of John Lennon in Iceland in…

A young Nina Hagen doing a punky—some might call it demonic—live cover version of “Ziggy Stadust” around the time of her Unbehagen album in 1980.…