There is a new craze in town, and for the uninitiated, it looks like trendy swanksters are smoking crack cocaine. Dig a little further though, and it’s Alcohol WithOut Liquid. Huh? Get high without the hangover, and it’s legal because it uses the age-old non-drug drug, alcohol as it’s main ingredient.
Of course guess who’s already seeking a ban.
We’ve all heard about the no fly list by now. Have you heard about the senator that got caught in it’s web? This is surely a sign of things to come. Huge databases, little quality control, err on the side of safety. Add that all up and you have your usual cluster-f*ck.
It’s nice every so often to hear a positive story in the news. This piece proclaims it may not be so very difficult to stabalize greenhouse gases.
If you have friends coming in from out of town, and they don’t want to stay in $100+ per night hotel palaces, there are a couple of good options. Check out Amsterdam Residence which is on the Upper West Side, and also the Larchmon Hotel in the village near University.
Serious creative piece called Commute: New York City. A website, a photojournal, a bloggers NYC.
All the tripster poets, from Terrance McKenna to Tim Leary, and Robert Anton Wilson, have mentioned from time to time unorthodox theories about life outside of our world.
Now we’re hearing them in the popular news. Paul Davies from the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie University asks us to consider the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) right inside our DNA.
As you all know, the RNC is coming at the end of the month.
Protestors are taking a different tack, and planning to use various hightech solutions to catch up with modern police.
I know one thing, I’m gettin’ the heck out of dodge. Bman here I come.
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I love railing on about the missing drug war on legal drugs. Take prozac for example, that failed attempt to solve real societal problems, or at least the problem of a preponderance of the depressed, but drugging them. Albeit by state-sanctioned doctors!
Apparently there are so many prozac poppers, that traces of the drug are turning up in the strangest places.
Maybe I’ve been hiding in a closet. Anyway, if you’re sick of NY Citysearch being so slow, check out how fast Menu Pages is. They have all the listings.
A consensual crime is one where all parties consent to participation. In other words a crime without a victim. As absurd as it sounds, there are plenty of such laws. Some excellent excerpts from Peter McWilliams book Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do is a great read for anyone interested in this subject.
Every other day there’s a revolution caused by new technology and the internet. We usually digest these as major lawsuits against people using the technology by big companies who didn’t see it coming. Linux is once again in a position to cause some itsy bitsy revolutions.
A little martial arts history in this visual and enlightening Journal of Manly Arts.
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It is against the law to listen to secrets the mind tells on certain substances… But some Frank Duff tells of those who are listening. Free download if you like reading books online!
I recentely rented the strange and bizarre Saragossa Manuscript. The movie was fascinating though rather confusing, trippy and disjointed recounting of this guy who is at times in a nightmare, and later seemingly inebriated on strange hallucinagins. I did a little research, and dug up the creator, the infamous Count Potocki. Illuminati, Rosicrucians, what more could you ask for?
I’m really not sure if these folks are selling a lot of these bags. Why copy what the Nazi’s did, this time using synthetic materials? Perhaps it’s a horror movie thing. Their site says G o r e + C h i c = V e r y C h i c. I guess I’m out of the loop again…
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