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Going to take a quick break from mass-media bashing mode to remind you heathens of the rare opportunities to learn from your TV. Hence this excellent mashup clip of one of the greatest television series ever created…
(Ahem… Warning for language… You may have to cover your virgin ears should you decline to be properly educated)
This is the animated tale of Doc Ellis’ Wily Wonka-esque experience on June 12, 1970, when he pitched a no hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates while tripping on LSD.
Well crafted animation by filmmaker Lorenzo Veracin depicting the famous trippy bike ride of LSD inventor Albert Hofmann on April 19, 1943.
As the nation’s health care debate/debacle (debatecle?) crescendos into to a high-pitched whine, one champion’s advances threaten to trump all the efforts of the medical community, pharmaceutical industry, and lobbying covens. And this champion, this potential savior, is an unlabeled, off-brand, non-invasive, patent-free, discount store sugar pill.
According to Wired magazine, placebo effects have dramatically increased over the past few years, making it monumentally tough to get new drugs approved by the FDA.
More, by Mark Osborne, is regarded as one of the best short films ever created. Set in a dreary world where workers slave away creating happiness widgets for a voracious consumer culture, it could be a commentary on modern economics, anti-depressant culture, or the digital revolution.
While this piece won an Academy Award a decade ago, and is hardly new news, it was recently released in a larger IMAX format, which is enough excuse to watch it again…
Last week, the Huff Post published a heretofore little known letter sent from 101-year old LSD developer Albert Hofmann (who passed last year at 102) to Captain of Industry, Steve Jobs. The letter referenced Jobs’ well known affinity for psychedelics and requested support for the first medicinal study of LSD in over 35 years.
I like the meta-story of Todd Phillips writing The Hangover after a night of binge drinking, having forgotten that he was stealing the plot of Dude, Where’s My Car?
DEA agents and New York City’s finest were shocked last weekend to find yet another segment of society corrupted by the War on Drugs — Teddy Bears. In a raid on a Bronx safehouse, police and federal agents uncovered over 44 lbs of heroin and $150,000 in cash trafficked by the customizable bedtime friends known as Build-A-Bears.
From the mind of the lollipop-laden, cartoon pony-pushin’ DJ, Fagottron (author of the Poppins Mix) comes an image of pure bitination…
Strike that, reverse it… Comes a bit of pure imagination.
Christopher Duncan of Copiague, NY is thanking his lucky stars that he was born a white, rich, child. This week, his lucky accident of birth earned him a free pass in a federal drug court that fell all over itself to spare him the humiliation of going to prison for knowingly breaking the law.
