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September 30, 2004
Experimenting with LSD
Re-post: The results of careless experiments, feeding LSD to British soldiers
Also, Goats On Acid: The FDA institutionalized laboratory experimentation on animals in 1908. At that time, the FDA's Drug Division was reorganized into four Laboratories, one of which stated its purpose as "investigating the physiological effects of drugs on animals."
The LSD No-Hitter And other drug tales from the world of baseball. Another version of former Pittsburgh Pirates' pitcher Dock Ellis's story
E-Bay auction: "Snakes on White" Blotter art
Salvia Divinorum Video Clips: Sharry's First Trip is a video taped account of her first experience with Lady Salvia
Freud and Cocaine - Freud leads the late nineteenth Century charge for the cause of cocaine
Crystal Meth - “It will consume your mind! It will destroy your future! They call it Ice! It is a raging Fire!” Mothers Against Methamphetamine
LSD Barcode Art above from Scott Blake. I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. More about any kind of bad drugs especially Acid and Pot Here
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Your Highness
Keep off the Grass (But it’s ok to smoke & drink): Tom gets in trouble when his mother finds a joint in his room. Instead of punishing Tom, his father challenges him to learn more about marijuana’s evil effects on society. Nobody gets killed in this Sid Davis film, yet Tom still learns a harsh lesson after being mugged by druggies and learning that his best friend sells pot to school children
Welcome to Hollywood! Lazyboy’s new video, Underwear goes on the inside of your pants. (From “Gomi No Sensei”)
Stoner Excited About Marijuana-Induced Breast Growth. More Marijuana News: Students recruited to harvest pot
Marijuana in Iraq, freeing the Moslems from the evil of Hashish
Flavored Zig Zags, from Absinthe and Bacon to blueberries & watermelon
Unisex hemp shoes & sandals for a fragile planet. "Hemp shoes are pure!"
Marijuana Seeds, the highest quality marijuana seeds in the world
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. More about any kind of illegal drugs especially Acid and Pot Here
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September 29, 2004
Till death do us part
Please read the touching stories of Father Gregory Boyle as he discusses his career working with former gang members in Los Angeles. (Heard on Terry Gross’s “Fresh Air”)
Food for Those in Solitude. Raven's Bread is a newsletter for hermits and those interested in the eremitical life. (From “Extreme Web Surfs”)
Use this Color Therapy Cube to calm, rejuvenate, and improve your sense of well-being
What's your life rated on the MPAA rating scale?
(On the other hand, if you have to, there's Divorce Net to help folks through the painful process of divorce and related issues)
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Visit Our Archives of Things To Do Here
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September 28, 2004
Sweet transvestites from Transsexual Transylvania
Little Elvis on the Sunset Strip: Applause or no applause. Little Elvis didn't care. Little Elvis has his own inner applause meter
Women Hunters - For women, about women, by women
A Close Shave - Razor blade related collectibles, by Amichay Bar-Yoseph. (From Bifurcated Rivets). Ahmet Sonmez, another collector of Razor Blade Wrappers
Gallery of Eccentrics from “Eccentric New Orleans”
Bill Maher and Andy Richter as Satan and Jesus repectively
A Scottish Businessman who put his money where his mouth is
John Evans, World record-holding headbalancer and Christian Adam, record holder of cycling backwards while playing a violin. Many more such record holders at Record Klub Saxonia
TK Faces (Image heavy)
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Visit Many More Human Interest Stories Here
September 28, 2004 in Unusual People | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
September 27, 2004
Surrealist and other beautiful games
Bald headed action figure (From Skydive Stunts)
The Top Ten Asian Pacific American Toys
Sports Classics Parody - If These Thumbs Could Talk ...
Reverse - The movement of your cursor has been reversed. (From "Ritilan")
Learn to Juggle . Shoot the clay kitten
What is a SpudZooka? Your own Pneumatic Potato Cannon capable of launching a potato several hundred yards
Bob Armstrong's Old Jigsaw Puzzles
Paper Former Universe
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Our Extensive Collection of Games and Toys Here
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September 26, 2004
“Dead Soldiers for Peace”
A million candles for children
Blues for Peace - Isn't it time people stopped fighting and learned to play 12 bar shuffles instead?
Sculpture of Origami Peace Dove by Livio De Marchi
Stanislav Petrov: You probably never heard of him. He may have saved the human race from extinction. Petrov (born c. 1939) is a retired Russian Army Colonel who refused to launch Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles on September 26, 1983, despite computer indications that missiles had already been launched at the USSR from the United States
Peace Not War Images. (From “Little Ray of Sunshine”)
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Many More Unusual Links About Peace and About War Here
September 26, 2004 in Peace | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
“Scrambled eggs, all my troubles seems so far away”…
Hand-painted cells from Yellow Submarine
Dana Pannell’s Beatles Karaoke, Rendered in General Midi for your listening pleasure
Beatles fans will soon be able to buy their very own John Lennon sneakers. Ouch!
The Ten Most Hated Men in Rock (Besides Sting): Paul McCartney is No. 1
Stella McCartney’s own site
Review of Larry Kane’s "Ticket to Ride"
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Visit Our Extensive Beatles Collection Here
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September 25, 2004
"Too many good docs are getting out of business”
Fictional elections deserve fictional candidates: Republicans for Voldemort. If I were to cast my vote, I would vote for Harry Bottom for President 2004
Top 10 Reasons to Elect George W. Bush
The Database of Bush Accomplishments contains every positive thing that George Bush has accomplished during his four years as President. To search the database, enter a word or phrase in the box below
Do you have what it takes to be President?
“If you believe that government should be accountable to the people…”
Grandmaster Bush Rap. (It’s strange how the current Bush masks look so much like the Nixon mask worn by the Ex-presidents in “Point Break”)
Campaign voodoo: Delay and distract
Where Kerry Went Wrong: Can all of Kerry's qualifiers, gaffes and flip-flops on Iraq be finessed with a KISS strategy? Yep. That's the magic of general elections, where 50 million likely voters are just tuning in. With a few choice one-liners, the onus of responsibility can be placed back where it belongs
(Nasty banner here from “Zen Anarchy”. Yummy tummy photo above from “J-Walk”)
Two dogs share a Rare private moment
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. More Fair and Balanced Election News Here
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September 24, 2004
Rubik's Revenge
Solving the Rubik's Revenge (4x4x4)
The return of Rubik's Lego Magic Cube
Urban Invasion. A mysterious French artist has gone about the globe putting mosaics of the little space invaders from the classic video games all over the place
Sloyd3. Objective: Move all red, yellow, and blue pieces to the correct face
(Photo above by photographer John Brain)
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Everything You Need To Know About Rubik’s Cube and Hundreds of Other Games Here
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September 23, 2004
Buy, buy, buy
Welcome to Commercials I Hate. I started this site because the advertising industry thinks we're stupid. Commercials assume the worst about us. Commercials use ugly stereotypes to appeal to the lowest common denominator. That's nasty and insulting. Lucky for you, so am I
Skippy Peanut Butter’s elephants - Targeting stoners?
The Branding of Polaroid, 1957-1977 - Blog by Paul Giambarba, head of Polaroid's identity and packaging at the time
All your favorite jingles from the 80’s. You can also download these Beer commercials
One of the creepier entries in the campaign to make over-the-hill women look younger is Rejuvenique: The Ultimate Facial Toning System. Found at The Ridiculous Infomercial Review
What those DeBeers ads should really look like (Warning: Lewd sentiments/language)
Buy more Nike Shoes
The Advert Channel, 24 hours of nothing but commercials
Advertising Plagiarism (side-by-side comparisons of pirated print designs)
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Visit Our Unusual Advertising Jingles Here
September 23, 2004 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
September 22, 2004
The Sisters of San Francisco
Vintage San Francisco Postcards, from America as it was. Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to journey across the United States in 1910, traveling through countryside and small towns, craning your neck to look up at the skyscrapers of the cities, stopping to see the current events and sites of this glorious country's history?
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. is a 21st Century Order of queer nuns. Since their first appearance in San Francisco on Easter weekend, 1979, the Sisters have been accused of "Ruining it for Everyone" with their habitual injection of gaiety into serious affairs including human rights, political activism and religious intolerance. The Sisters consider it their mission to "ruin" all detrimental conditions including complacency, guilt, and the inability to laugh at one's self
The Painted Ground of San Jose Avenue - sidewalk graffitists that work in and around the Mission at the base of Noe Valley
Photograph of 16th and Valencia street above from the 40’s. Many Digitized Images from the San Francisco Public Library
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September 21, 2004
Israeli nostalgia
Nahum Gutman was a wonderful, Matisse-like illustrator who wrote & drawn many of the best artbooks for Israeli children during the first half of the 20th century. Many of his stories took place in “Little Tel-Aviv”, when the town was just a tiny colony stretched on empty sand dunes among the first orange groves in Palestine. Extremely nostalgic stuff. Here is a Hebrew website about the Gutman museum
Here is where I’m from, Kiriat-Motzkin, Israel. Let me tell you, it didn’t look like that at all when I left. Not even close.
Pirate Radio Stations off the Israeli shore. (From Metafilter)
Poster Art of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Ramallah Online, devoted to information about Ramallah, Palestine, the history and culture of the area
The Likudization of the World: The True Legacy of September 11. By Naomi Klein
According to the Iraq Blog Count, there are now 76 new Iraqi blog, so I am not going to keep documenting them all. Here are just a few: Pictures in Baghdad; before, during and after the war, A star from Mosul, Raghda Zaid, Baghdad Girl and Tell me a secret
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September 20, 2004
First Barbie doll
First Kaleidoscope, invented in 1816 by David Brewster
From the Early Office Museum: Antique Office Illustrations & Photographs, 1830s - 1880s
The First Miss America Beauty Pageant, 1921
First Barbie doll, sold March 9, 1959
First 911 call - February, 1967
First woman on the moon, August 28, 1999
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September 19, 2004
(I did not attend Burningman this year either)
- but 35,000 other people did. Next year, perhaps…
Skydiving over Burningman. (See also the video from 2002). More photos from above as well as samples of art installations all over the Playa, by Brad Templeton
Hips of Burningman by Patrick Roddie
360 Panorama from Greg Downing
Gallery of photographs by George Post, by John Cornicello and from flickr
4 videos of Gravity Bowl’s spinning cars. Tons of photos from Gravity Bowl
Even the Suicide girls went burning
BM’s 2004 Theme Camps & Villages
Jesus and Christ hang on a cross until the Man is set fire (From SF Gate gallery)
Many more galleries at Burningman TV
I am leaving on vacation to Italy shortly and will be away for a few weeks. But blogging here will not stop. I have prepared single daily pre-blogged posts for your entertainment, so you'll have good reasons to keep visiting Grow-a-brain on a daily basis. Any complains though will have to wait until my return. Be good. Many More Unusual Festivals Here
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Resources for Gaijin
Kyoto Kimono - Authentic Japanese vintage kimono, obi, fabrics and unusual items from the markets of Kyoto
Nanshoku Gay Samurai. (From The World History of Male Love. More about Procter & Gamble's gay toothpaste)
Shakuhachi, a site devoted to the traditional Japanese bamboo flute
Toys in Japan: Because real estate is at a serious premium in Tokyo, most of the toy stores I visited were five or six stories tall, each usually organized by type of toy. What I liked most about toy stores in Japan was that there was a wide variety of toys, crazy things that I had no idea they were still making.
More Bento Boxes from Chanpon
Driving in Japan: Philip Greenspun’s observations from his recent trip to Japan
The Ninja Dojo, the ultimate Ninja & Samurai movie website
Tattoos they are a-changin' Why, I ask myself, would a man invest more than 150 hours of his time, over a two year period, in a weekly series of painful puncture wounds that would leave a meter-tall image of legendary little forest-dwelling bear-killer Kintaro indelibly sunk into the skin of his shoulders, back, buttocks, and thighs?
Resources for Gaijin (foreigners) in Japan
Current Eruptions from the Earthquake Research Institute (Unfortunately, the last update on the site is 17 January 2004)
Many More Unusual Links about Japan Here
September 19, 2004 in Japan | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack