Monthly Archives: August 2010

The Death Row to Neptune Express

Joseph A. Morse, San Quentin Prison’s Death Row, 1972. After nearly a decade of subsisting on valium, seconal, prison-made wine and a little heroin, I was introduced to LSD. My fellow condemned prisoners were a little reluctant to try the new chemical because of the gloomy environment, but I had practically been raised on death [...]
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We Have Come To Remove You

Ah-ah-ah, ha-ha, ho-ho! Fly into the streets! All who are still fresh and young and not dehumanized – to the streets! The pot-bellied mortar of laughter stands in a square drunk with joy. Laughter and Love, copulating with Melancholy and Hate, pressed together in the mighty, convulsive passion of bestial lust. Long live the psychology [...]
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Recreating: Josef Stalin’s Late Night Drinking Party at Gunpoint

There was once a young boy who held a dream close, so close to his tender heart: to hold a magnificent midsummer gala to celebrate and highlight all of his life’s accomplishments. He dreamed of an event filled with music and glad handing. He fantasied of the night could he could remark to people he [...]
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Jenkem Madness

"It lasts about an hour", says one user, 16-year-old Luke Mpande, who prefers Jenkem to other substances. "With glue, I just hear voices in my head. But with Jenkem, I see visions. I see my mother who is dead and I forget about the problems in my life." “At the Lusaka sewage ponds, two teenage [...]
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The Man Who Lived Through Doomsday

It is doubtful that even his mother could claim the Ludger Sylbaris was a nice man. Born in 1875 on Martinique and known as Sanson (or Samson) for his great strength, by 1902 at the age of 27 he was a habitual drunk and repeat felon. The police were hardly surprised when called to the [...]
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