Vineland / drug lore---GR or V

[Michael Bailey]

On 3/3/06, jd wrote:
> Hah, that's great... it's always fun to walk into a room and convince
> people you're an Irish immigrant named Percival McGillicudtty (I might
> be spelling the name wrong, but it's a rather tasty peppertmin
> schnapps - McGillicutty's, who handed down his recipe and his dueling
> pistols to his son, something like that).  See how long you can keep
> it up.
>

well, if you're going to be incognito, (there was a great bit in one
of the novelizations of the Get Smart series - almost as funny as the
Cone of Silence bit on the show - wherein Max eventually settled upon
the notion that incognito meant "travelling as a mushroom") then you
may as well choose an odd name, no? So if somebody calls out to you,
the name is so unusual that it reminds you that that is who you are
supposed to be

> On 3/3/06, hilary y <hilbeanie at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Although Drug lore is mot my fprimary interest, I grew up with it (such a
> > nice, naive time back then,) when I was young and growing up the SF Bay area
> > in the70s, you could get a report on KSAN every Friday morning detailing
> > whether the acid or whatever was, was high grade.  You could send it in to
> > the lab and they would test it and then the window pane with Mr Natural
> > stamped on it would be reported as pure or not...(I  am sure that dealers
> > sent in their own for the free advertisement!)
> >  As for Ecstacy...I had friends in High School that took it in Berkeley (the
> > new MMDA) in the late 70s and early 80s, which is the around the same time
> > that some folks claim that Pynchon lurked around Berkeley...an acquaintance
> > of mine says that Pynchon was fun to be around but, kept giving out funny
> > names out at parties...was flirtatious and obnxious.
> >
> >  (I ws too much of a prude to take X back then but, later heard so much
> > about it in the 80s that I ended ! up taking it  -  with my MOM...)


it'd be cool to try an entheogen with one's mom, but methinks that
would be rare outside the precincts of California...
I had the good fortune too to mooch around Berkeley in 1977 for a
couple weeks just as an impecunious tourist at street level, WOW what
a great town!

I could envision Frenesi turning on with her mom, for instance, but
not DL with hers - but then again...hmm