Drugs

I think many us have been there: broke and looking for any kind of gig that will get us enough money to make it from…

John Alcorn’s “Uncanny in Cans” billboard seems to reference “the girl with kaleidoscope eyes” from the Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds“ 7up has…

The Bath Township Police Department in Michigan is making meth users with Zika contamination concerns an offer they can’t refuse. With a Facebook post containing…

Cottonwoodhill (1971) by Brainticket Unless the CAT scan shows lasting damage, I am forever indebted to my friend Aaron Aldorisio. You see, when we were…

Allen Ginsberg was a hustler. He was always on the make. But if Ginsberg was getting a piece of the pie then everyone was getting…

The Escobars visit Frontierland at the Magic Kingdom in 1981 In the early ’80s, Pablo Escobar was at the top of his game. He was…

Barack Obama has been (somewhat notoriously) light on pardons and commutations of sentence throughout his administration. As of March he had only granted 70 pardons…

Rock lore loves to romanticize the drug casualty. Of course it’s wrong, but it’s so hard to resist imagining the tantalizing might-have-beens that surround the…

Burroughs contemplating an orgone box As a contributor to this blog, I spend a lot of my time poking around looking for suitable subjects that…

A behind-the-scenes images of Bob Geldof as ‘Pink’ and actual skinheads from the 1982 film ‘Pink Floyd – The Wall.’ I don’t know how many…