Zappa On Freaking

[Steelhead]

Zappa may not have been a "user" but he did seek to transubstintiate the
experience through music and dress, etc. Here's Zappa on "Freaking Out":

"Freaking out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and
restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to
express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the
social structure as a whole." from Acid Dreams by Lee and Shlain.

It's hard to imagine Pynch hanging out with Dylan and that mycologist
extraordinaire Gordon Wasson (a former vp of JP Morgan and Company) in the
mid-60s and not using LSD, mescaline, or psilocybin. But anything's
possible. Of course, it's kind of cheap to simply "record" someone else's
trip when the experience was so easily had.

And Greg M...How do you know Ursula le Guin is "straight?"  She lives a
couple blocks away, run into her at the coffee house (Hawthorne Cafe...not
the ubiquitous Starbucks) occasionally. And I would never describe her as
straight. She's certainly not straight sexually. And as for drug use...Her
father, Alfred Kroeber was an anthropolgist. And we know "they" are famous
for tasting the forbidden elixirs.