Tag Archives: LSD

Interview: Robert Crumb

Posted on January 6, 2020 by

“Robert Crumb opens the door to his medieval chateau in a village somewhere in the south west of France and says – as Americans tend to – ‘Hey, nice to meet you.’ He extends a long, thin hand on a … Continue reading →

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Ram Dass (1931 – 2019)

Posted on December 23, 2019 by

Ram Dass speaking at the Alternative Media Conference at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt., in 1970. “Baba Ram Dass, who epitomized the 1960s of legend by popularizing psychedelic drugs with Timothy Leary, a fellow Harvard academic, before finding spiritual inspiration … Continue reading →

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What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been (February 26, 1976)

Posted on December 18, 2019 by

“The San Francisco scene started at the Red Dog Saloon, as much as you can say it started at any one place. Most of the elements were there: rock & roll, a sort of light show, the first psychedelic dance … Continue reading →

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The Psychedelic Experience – Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert (1964)

Posted on December 3, 2019 by

“The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead (commonly referred to as The Psychedelic Experience) is a book about using psychedelic drugs that was coauthored by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert, all of … Continue reading →

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Alan Watts – This Is It (1960)

Posted on November 18, 2019 by

“In my high school creative-writing class, one day a week was set aside for reading, our choice of material. The hippieish teacher guided those choices, but almost anything worked. It was here, because of her, that I first encountered Alan Watts, … Continue reading →

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Head shop

Posted on October 29, 2019 by

“A head shop is a retail outlet specializing in paraphernalia used for consumption of cannabis and tobacco and items related to cannabis culture and related countercultures. They emerged from the hippie counterculture in the late 1960s, and at that time … Continue reading →

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Motor City Comics #1 – April, 1969

Posted on October 16, 2019 by

“In the spring of 1969 Crumb produced Motor City Comics #1, which introduces Lenore Goldberg, one of his strongest female characters to date. While she displays some of Crumb’s favorite physical attributes, such as muscular thighs and cheesecake cleavage, Goldberg … Continue reading →

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