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Various cults

( Art and Conflict and Drugs and Life and Love and Religion and Sex and Words and Work )

“Artists are the worker priests of the cult of man.”
That’s a statement by Brice Marden. A brand new painting by Marden will set you back about nine hundred thousand dollars. In addition, Marden has been pretty up front about his drug use. He really likes to smoke pot. So what kind of cult is he [...]

Poetic lie-sense

( Art and Drugs and Mind & Brain and Words )

Please read me—please read me—please
Because I got out of bed to write this
Please read me—please read me—please
Because if everyone read this I’d be anthologized for ever
Please read me—please read me—please
Because it’ll only take a moment
Please read me—please read me—please
Because I look under every dark emotion for an even darker one
Please read me—please read me—please
Because you [...]

Farrell Fawcett’s six degrees of separation

( Drugs and Life and Love and Sex )

I am quite proud to announce that I personally know every one of the contributors to The Great Whatsit. Yes, even the anonymous contributors. And as far as my research indicates, I am the only contributor who can claim that honor (sorry Dave and Bryan). So in the interest of helping those home viewers feel [...]

The story of my experiments with nicotine

( Drugs )

Close, but no clove: I’d always been taught that smoking was wrong. Not just bad for your health, as they told us in health class with the help of graphic images of clogged and cancerous lungs and people breathing through tubes in their throats. No, actually wrong, the kind of thing that could put you [...]