[Snook]

Originally Posted by Jahnice

I don't see where you mean that I edited in this thread but I do it all the time.
I am OCD with spelling, grammar, punctuation ...maybe that was the reason.
Maybe I just felt like it.
Who knows.
We are all oddballs around here, so no need to 'break 'em'.

yes, I am a member in good standing.

[Jahnice]

Originally Posted by feeblebunny

If on cannabis, only a clear cerebral sativa will allow me to comprehend what I've just read. Otherwise on indicas and blends I've got to start over again and again :|

i never made that connection before
but yes,
there are times where you are reading along and realize
that you have no idea what the last 3 pages were about.
you go back and read it again.
it sounds familiar but it never sunk in.
always thought it was my short attention span.

i usually lay the glasses down on the bedside table and have a nap at that point.

[Payaso]

Hey Jahnice, I was in Amsterdam back in the '90s also... and bumped into W Burroughs at the Abraxas back when it was a small place...

He was at the corner table, and the budtender told me no one would go near him, he was weird. I took a look and said to myself that's William Burroughs! What a character with that hat!!! He was weird. He smelled. I rolled a big joint of Orange Bud and lit it. Passes it to him, and I never got it back. had to roll another... We sat there reading our International Herald Tribunes... until he started complaining about the coffee... and I had an appointment with Jorge so I reluctantly took off... he didn't seem like he wanted to talk.

I later read he was there for a conference with Leary, Hoffman et.al. and I could have gone to hear him speak that day...

Anyway... have you got Jorge's new book yet?

It's awesome!

The Cannabis Encyclopedia... I will write a review.

[Jahnice]

Wow Payaso, that sounds like quite a treat.
Can't believe he didn't give the joint back.
Can believe he smelled.
most people would have thought he was a homeless guy.


I just found Jorge's website last night but I didn't see any info about the new book.
I look forward to 'the Cannabis Encyclopedia' and your review.
Keep us in the library informed

edit-found it on www.amazon.com
released on april 20, 2015

[DickAnubis]

Burroughs was an American treasure, the beat generation's guru and literary Enfant terrible'. I once shook his hand backstage at a Laurie Anderson concert at the Beacon theater in New York. He didn;t say anything but stared at me until my skeleton wanted to escape my skin.

Speaking of Hunter S. Thompson I keep him near my writing desk.

The glass lens is picking up some reflection but Hunter is made up entirly of words from one of his works. It was made by a Texan artist. He no longer does word portraits. His name is Kenneth Rongear.
Tiny Salvador Dali always keep watch over me. The landscape above Hunter's head was a reject from L.'s studio so I swiped it.

I love books and read an average of 100- 120 a year. Even at that rate if I live another thirty years without loosing my marbles I'll only finish another 3000 - 3600 tomes. I want more!!
Oh well.
Here's a couple of pics of our partial library.

The painting and Dali and the ceramic box are by L.


My writing desk.

This represents a small portion of our total ibrary which is overtaking the house. Time to move soon.

For the Beat generation I reccomend William Gaddis. He was a contemporary with BUrroughs, Kerouac, Corso et. al. But he worked quietly alone producing a book every fifteen years of so.
I suggest JR or Recognitions. These are not easy books to read. JR is entirely dialog without telling you who is speaking. You just have to flow with it. But the reward is an amzing story of a young boy who corners the stock market in the '70s.

If you like historical fiction read The Confabulist by Steven Galloway. Harry Houdini is the protagonist in a world of spies and assasins. A delightful read.

Meanwhile I'm going to find this "Cannabis Encyclopedia"

Peace and light
DA

[Jahnice]

'coo coo coo roo coo coo
its cold outside
awrooo'
Laurie Anderson,

i saw her in detroit at the masonic temple in the early 90's.
freaking amazing evening.


i cant imagine any book being more of a 'tough read' than Naked Lunch (Burroughs)
cocaine, heroin and morphine were his drugs of choice and it shows on the page.

[Jahnice]

you just turned me on............ to the wonderful world of free ebooks!

Yippeeee,
thanks Payaso

[Jahnice]

i ordered Jorge's Cannabis Encyclopedia a few weeks ago and it should arrive in the middle of June.





edit- 'the new phone book is here...the new phone book is here!' Steve Martin, The Jerk

it just arrived

[Jahnice]

[highsteppa]

Originally Posted by Jahnice

i cant imagine any book being more of a 'tough read' than Naked Lunch (Burroughs)
cocaine, heroin and morphine were his drugs of choice and it shows on the page.

Agreed, granted its been 20+ years since i read it but remember it the same way...all over the place lacking any of the inspiration that I found in on the road/desolation angels as a lad.

I was reading the Plague but it was killing me..I started crime and punishment recently and its good but but found an old copy of Huckleberry Finn and that bumped it off for the time being. got me laughng out loud