This Friday’s documentary, originally aired by the BBC in the late 90s (?), tells the strange, dramatic, and ultimately quite sad story of acid guru Timothy Leary. The question with Leary—and perhaps with all such larger-than-life characters—is this: what was behind the surface we all saw? What was inside him? What made him different from [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The murder of American scientist Frank Olson has long been one of the darker corners of the United States’ decades-long dalliance with LSD. Now a new book called A Terrible Mistake by H.P. Albarelli shows just how dark that corner truly was. Here’s an interview with the author from the Swedish radio program “Red Ice,” [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 5, 2004
Kate and I have spent most of the last couple of weeks in Lakeside, Michigan, sunning our writing-ravaged bodies in the last rays of summer. And there’s no internet at my parents’ house, so blogging has been forced to a back seat. I LOVE it up there. It’s pretty, quiet, full of good, fresh food, [...]
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Friday, March 5, 2010
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