Blog#13: Snippets From the War Zone
Part One: The Sky's the Limit
'I'm leaving on a jet plane/ Don't know when I'll be back again....'
Leaving...... on a jet plane? Steady on there. Not so fast. Maybe yes, maybe no. Not so easy these days.
You might be leaving on a jet plane. Provided you don't mind having nasal cotton bud things of unknown purity stuck up . . .
Life Story#14: And We All Fall Down....
Part One
It's March 1974. The bright sun of early spring floods through the sash window of the bedroom in Jimmy Keys's bedsit in Redland, Bristol. The near-radiant light imparts a sense of sanctity to this humble place, though it fails to extinguish the chill of the morning air. A stiff breeze can be heard playing in the . . .
Life Story#13: Summer's End
Part One
Summer had pretty much breathed its last when 1973's Reading Festival came along. Reading was already a fixture in the music calendar. For years it had been a jazz and blues event, but more recently it had branched out as a long weekend of rock music.
I went with Josey and a pal of hers, Lesley. I knew Josey from the . . .
Blog#12: Research Chemicals
Part One
Anybody delving into the world of psychedelic substances with any degree of enthusiasm and curiosity is likely to come into contact with three general layers of material.
Firstly, there are the plants which have been used for centuries, if not millennia, by peoples across the face of the Earth for assistance and gnosis. . . .
Life Story#12: Homework Time
Part One
It was 'Communes' magazine which had facilitated our first meeting together. Now it came to our assistance big-time once again.
As well as its 'people looking for communes' listings, it also ran a 'come and visit' section. Here, extant communal projects announced their willingness to take in guests, in return for help with . . .
Snapshot#4: Testing, Testing ...... a Beginner's Guide
Anybody beginning to look into the real nature of the 'current situation' will inevitably soon come to see the fraudulent - and by 'fraudulent' I mean totally, 101% - characteristics of so-called convid testing. Amazingly, vast numbers of people continue to labour under the delusion that there is a real test, detecting real cases of a real . . .
Blog#11: The Grand Tour of 2021
Part One
Snap! Oh no. All I did was to stretch over from the bed on which I was lying to meditate and turn on the bedside light. That's all it took. I pretended not to know what it was, and got on with life.
I did know what it was. Within a few days, I could see the tell-tale signs of a soft, fleshy protuberance appearing in . . .
