One scribe’s misadventures with Ambien, the world’s freakiest sleep medication.  Drawings and paintings copyrighted Damon Orion, based on his Ambien Visions. Use prohibited without permission. All my life. Right from the word go. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been doing exactly what I’m doing right now — lying on my […]
The first time I was ever in San Francisco it blew my mind. It was a city of freethinkers and artists who were “on the level†and “got it.†Sometimes it’s hard for me to accept that I was born in South Florida. The isolation and alienation was so severe that I literally believed […]
photo by Stephen Sammons The folks over at the Leary Archives have just posted a fascinating historical document, a transcription of a conversation between Timothy and Rosemary Leary and John Lennon and Yoko Ono that took place during the Lennon/Ono’s famous “Bed-In For Peace” in Toronto, during which Lennon and surrounding friends recorded “Give […]
“I vomited some of it, but still managed to keep most of it down. After watching me, the rest of the gang decided to take only half a tablespoon. I learned an invaluable lesson in drug experimentation that would stay with me for life: never go first.” A segment from the MONDO 2000 prehistory part of the […]
Ridley Scott’s prequel set in the Alien universe, the detailed and evocative Prometheus, delivers a science fiction narrative rife with mythological and philosophical implications beyond the standard big budget sci-fi fare, a story that presents fringe speculations about the influence of alien contact with the origins of the human species and offers serious questions about […]
If you are familiar with American Folklore, you probably recall the story of John Henry. He was a steel driver in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. If you don’t know what that means, it basically means he drove steel wedges into rocks to cut through them for railroads. John Henry was supposedly the […]
