Thursday, May 01, 2008
Dead - But Is He Grateful?
I had no idea this fellow was still alive. Now, anyway, he no longer is. Like many of my generation, I have reason to rue the day Hofmann stumbled on his most famous find. Indeed, when I look back on my student years, I find Samuel Johnson's resonant phrase ever more precisely applicable - 'Stark insensibility.' It was.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. That sums it up for me.
ReplyDeleteFYI, the pangor ban is thought to be written at near enough the same place, while not a trend, it is a little something. And you have to give that the cuckoo clock is the product of a very unusual mind.
ReplyDeleteHo ho. I became a Dead Head in my first term at uni. A bottle of bourbon and "Skullfcuk" did the trick. I wouldn't want to repeat it but I wouldn't want to have missed it either, and I'm not sure the stark responsibility that followed was a great improvement. "And age, and then the only end of age." Bummer, man.
ReplyDeleteYes there were casualties, and that still makes me sad. But I think there probably always would have been. In earlier times, half the class would have been dead before forty from pointless wars or diseases that are easily cured today.
rather surprisingly i've never taken such substances, my natural state seems sufficiently...odd.
ReplyDeleteWell said elberry, I had absolutely no idea that I was blogging with a bunch of dope fiends. You and I are the only ones here who do not require external stimulus to reach a plateau of screaming, retching psychotic neurosis. We just have to wake up and put our socks on.
ReplyDeleteRIP Albert. I have my socks on and you should see them....stripey psychedelic things.
ReplyDeleteI haven't touched the chemical for 35 years or so, what happened, happened, for good or ill...I agree with Neil and Mark.
Far out.
ReplyDeleteBut without acid we'd have no posh chocolate or organic foodstuffs Nige - rendering life nigh on unliveable for us middles class wusses: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7377041.stm
ReplyDeleteNo posh choco? Are you sure? That doesn't bear thinking about. Who is this Finlo Rohrer ? An anagram I suspect...
ReplyDeleteThat's me off to the right of this story, where it says Poll Wipeout - wonder where they got the pic from?
ReplyDeleteYou're all a bunch of ex degenerate head bangers you lot, I will tell you a story, are you all sitting comfortably, then lets begin. In 1969 I had a Greek Cypriot guy working for me, let's call him "Little Joe". He used to take frequent trips back to Cyprus and when he returned his affluence took a quantum leap. I soon put two and two together and made eight, he was in the import business, nothing to do with me you might argue except, some of the other people I employed were becoming distinctly cool hand lukeish.
ReplyDeletePutting eight and eight together I came up with twenty seven. After some very nifty investigative work (threatening the odd bod with the sack) I discovered the reason, discount for his work colleagues. Out he went on his ear, the dreaded sugar lump supper may be OK in halls of res, not in manufacturing, hence lifelong abstinence.
What pic. ? Are you Gordon Brown ?, or George Harrison, (deceased).
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